Marco Crugnola is a typical clay courter with 7 matches played on carpet so far and a balanced 3-4 record. This year he had almost only matches on clay - with 14 out of 77 played on hard and indoor hard and none on carpet or grass.
Roko Karanusic has a record of 35-24 on carpet and this year is a fantastic 9-3, going to quarter final in Heilbronn and winning the title in Belgrade. Besides that he won 2 weeks ago Kolding on indoor hard so he should find the right weapons against Crugnola to go to second round here.