To be honest, I thought that Slabba might have a shock defeat here. He really doesn't like the courts in Saltzberg, they're slow and quite high bouncing which is good but the surface is extremely slippy. Movement is very difficult and so no matter what the ranking difference is between opponents, if one guy's got a really big serve, he's at a massive advantage.

I was actually surprised that Slabba played here as he played in Saltzberg this time last year and didn't like it at all then, because of the slippy courts.