The match
Started against Bo Cen and got four games in before the rain. Up 3-1 with a break in the first set; we resume on 16 August from there.
Good matchup for me. Bo cannot handle my first serve — he did not get a return back in either of my service games. And his own first serve is returnable, which is the opposite of what I had just dealt with against Danny Ferro. He is solid off both wings, prefers the forehand, and the backhand is consistent without being a weapon.
The pattern that is working: grind him in deep baseline rallies and then drop shot him. He cannot reliably get up to those. Rally deep, rally deep, then drop it.
He held to open, I held, I broke him, I held again for 3-1. Then the weather.
When we pick this back up: first serves in, and the deep-rally-into-drop-shot pattern. Nothing clever needed.