David Goffin takes Estoril wild card after slow start of the season
After Pedro Sousa and 2017 champion Pablo Carreno Busta, the organizers of the next week's Estoril Open have announced David Goffin as the third player who received a wild card, with world no. 22 set to make Estoril debut. The four-time ATP champion was the ATP Finals title contender in 2017 but has never been the same player after that eye injury in Rotterdam last year against Grigor Dimitrov. The Belgian has been ranked inside the top-25 since October 2014 but that should not last for long if he doesn't find something more in the following weeks, winning only seven matches so far this season and suffering the latest loss against Jan-Lennard Struff in the second round in Barcelona for the worst opening four months since 2013!
David has won only 35 out of 60 matches since the start of 2018 and we are yet to see his best tennis this year, kicking off the season with a tight opening round loss in Doha to Ricardas Berankis. In Melbourne, David fell to Daniil Medvedev in the third round before back-to-back first-match defeats to Filip Krajinovic and Gael Monfils in Montpellier and Rotterdam, advancing into the last four in Marseille where Stefanos Tsitsipas ousted him in straight sets. After another setback at Indian Wells, David decided to get back to Challenger level for the first time since conquering four straight titles in the summer of 2014, dropping out to world no. 168 Salvatore Caruso in the quarters! Frances Tiafoe bested him in Miami and there was no fuel in David's game in Monte Carlo and Barcelona as well, deciding to enter Estoril and seek form and wins before Madrid and Rome Masters 1000 events where he scored four wins overall last May.
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2ZyA4j0
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