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The first two round victories were career first indoor wins for Giustino, a 22-year-old Italian who showed certain progress this year. He booked 12 challenger wins which is new, as he did not score a single on so far in his career, but they were all on clay. The Italian is what you might call a typical slow surface player, and his physical appearance suggests it as well. Laaksonen on the other hand handles fast conditions better, especially indoors. He already scored 11 such wins this year, most of them from qualifications for tournaments such as this one. He went through three of them so far, "dropping" players such as Bozoljac, Huta-Galung, Millot and Phau. It is then clear we have a duel of two players that may be on par in quality, but the conditions clearly favor one of them. My choice is a clean win for the Swiss, without a lost set, while I see his straight win as excellent combo material.