3 March and everyone is bored without tournament play this week. Everyone getting worked up when neither has played one ball on clay this season. That’s almost 3 months before RG starts. Who knows what rust will do to one and how soon the legs/feet hold up for the other? And, more importantly, what about the rest of the field? Can any of them accomplish enough along the way to place them in the conversation?
It’s really not as binary as the two camps are asserting. I seem to remember a Spanish 19-year-old establishing huge momentum before RG’05, no? It started with a tournament in Brazil, no?