Marseille: Unimpressed

 

In the last four months Sod has won an ATP 250, a 500, a Masters-1000, …..

 

Please to fill in the gap and complete the sequence.

 

I remain, as ever, unimpressed.

 

It’s not just that winning 250s is not any great indicator of form (not, at any rate, a reliable one and certainly not when the number three seed is Mikhail Youzhny). There’s just no sense of trajectory or, dare I say it, narrative in winning one of these things anymore.

 

This is much more Marin-territory, no? –  who seems to be showing his first reliable signs of life in around a year. YES IT’S BEEN THAT LONG.