Hugo Gaston vs Jeremy Chardy Pick – Tennis Prediction & Odds 4/26/23

Hugo Gaston will meet Jeremy Chardy in the First Round of the 2023 Madrid Masters. The match will be played on Wednesday April 26th, 2023.

Hugo Gaston is unseeded here at the 2023 Madrid Masters and is ranked 106th in the world. The young Frenchman has had some spectacular results in his short career, but has been in poor form lately, with one one win on the season. There is no denying his talent, especially on this surface but his confidence must be terribly low and it will take a good run of results to rebuild it. He faces the experienced Jeremy Chardy, himself in poor form and is the favorite to advance here in Madrid.

Jeremy Chardy has been out of action for over a year due to injury, and has seen his ranking plummet as a result. Now at the end of his career, not much is expected of him but he is surely capable of a solid match or two. There will be serious question marks about his fitness and his ability to handle a physical match, but Hugo Gaston should not underestimate the veteran Frenchman.

It is difficult to trust him after such a poor run of form, but I have to back Hugo Gaston here. Against most other opponents this wouldn’t be the case, but he couldn’t have asked for a better matchup in the First Round than his struggling countryman Jeremy Chardy. Gaston is a very good clay court player and I expect him to have too much for Chardy to handle here. Approach this match with caution, but Gaston should get the job done here at the 2023 Madrid Masters.