Dawid Olejniczak plays a respectable 33-22 season so far, but had his best tournaments in March and April when he won a satellite tournament on indoor hard in Great Britain and Casablanca San Angel on hard. Since then he only reached the quarter finals in Furth and Trnava - both on clay.
Philipp Petzschner loves to play on carpet, has a 57-30 record on this surface and this year is an excellent 8-3 reaching the finals in Heilbronn and Belgrade. Besides that he just played a fantastic tournament in Vienna going through 2 qualification rounds, beating Wawrinka, Hernych, Moya and Feliciano Lopez on his way to the final where he gave no chance to Gael Monfils winning the title by 6-4 6-4.
I think everything's on Petzschner's side in this match
- actual form
- experience on carpet
- his first tournament win in 2008 and
- home crowd
Medium stakes on Petzschner to reach 2nd round in Aachen.