Friday's Newport round of 16 pits Jacob Fearnley against Stefan Kozlov on grass. Stefan Kozlov comes in at 3 wins from the last ten. Jacob Fearnley has dropped 2 straight and sits at 6-4 over the last ten.
The two have never played — a first meeting always adds a layer of uncertainty the numbers can't fully capture.
The underlying stats are tight across the board — this is a matchup decided by a handful of points. Fearnley is running on fumes after a brutal stretch of scheduling; Kozlov is running on fumes after a brutal stretch of scheduling. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Kozlov is exactly that — a lean.