Friday's Cincinnati first round pits Luca Van Assche against Yannick Hanfmann on hard. Luca Van Assche has won 8 of the last 10. Yannick Hanfmann comes in at 6 wins from the last ten.
On paper it's close: comparable ratings, comparable serve numbers, small margins everywhere. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Assche is exactly that — a lean.