In the past, universe No. 3, Stan Wawrinka starts his own Sofia Open campaign on the first day of the week when he takes on last year's frayed finalist, Marius Copil in the first round.

Wawrinka is playing for the first time, for example, as he lost to Milos Raonic in the second open championship of Australia, for example, as it continues your own rate in order to regain that degree, which made it one of the best players in the world. Subsequently, his own problems with the injury of the last year and a half Swiss made a virtuous start in the season, reaching the quarterfinals in Doha, where he beat Karen Khachanov and Nicholas Jarry, before getting into the form of Roberto Bautista-Agut. He had his own chances to win the Australian Open, for example, as He took the 1st set and worked for the 4th set, but in the end he fell 6-7 7-6 7-6 7-6 to the canadian. If he saves this form in Sofia, he, of course, has the opportunity to delve into the Bulgarian city of Moscow.

Wawrinka made it to the semifinals in Sofia last year, in his own second tournament subsequently several operations on the knee, but looking back, he hurried back, for example as he will become to act 2 more tournament, before than perform another 3 months aside. 

Only in August last year, he began to restore the similarity of his own best form, when he achieved the third round in Toronto, where he firmly pushed Rafael Nadal in 2 sets and made a quarterfinals in Cincinnati, stretching Roger Federer to 3 sets in another losing effort. Wawrinka still made the 3rd round of the US Open and the semifinals in St. Petersburg, before than ending personal season in Shanghai because of the claim on the back.

Until now, in 2019, there have been virtually no significant worries, and he will believe, in fact, that the injuries will remain on the sidelines, because he continues to fly up the rating. In the past, universe # 3 got a tricky knife in Sofia, but as it takes on the rather critical Marius Copil.

The 28-year-old Copil was wandering through an ordinary career, until he scored a tremendous breakthrough in Sofia last season, where he advanced to his own first career end (which he lost to Mirza Basic). Copil didn't advance that much afterwards, because it suffered a large number of early exits, but it had once again a big result later in the season in Basel, reaching its own biggest end subsequently to impressive victories over Ryan Harrison, Marin Cilic, Taylor Fritz and Alexander Zverev. He was eventually stopped by Roger Federer 7-6 6-4 in the end.

The quality of his game in Basel makes us think how and why Copil for example for a long time went beyond the top 100-he did not break into the top 100 until may 2017 - and why he does not have the opportunity to reproduce these results more often.

He started a fresh year is great, losing private matches starting in Doha and Auckland to Marton Vukovica and Taylor Fritz in accordance with this, falling to David Goffin in 4 sets in the second round of the Australian Open. Not paying attention to all this, the Romanian in real time is in the career ranking of the 56th. This number will fall below, if he does not produce a good week in Sofia; but he was given a really difficult start in front of the repeated champion major Wawrinka.

In fact, there's only one rating space separating Wawrinka and Copil, and the Swiss have taken the space below on 57th space because they're going to their own third career meeting.

Wawrinka won the last two, in Madrid 2013 and the Australian Open 2015, in straight sets, but 2 of the 3 sets in this meeting in Melbourne went for tie-breaks. The rematch on the first day of the week has the opportunity to be even more difficult for the Swiss because Copil has proven itself to be quite capable of overcoming with giant guns. He has a personal weapon, especially with his tremendous feed, and if this shot is integrated, he has a pretty good chance of winning. His single backhand has the ability to be not that pulverizing as Wawrinka's, but it's still a pretty necessary shot.

In the event that Copil plays at the level he achieved in Basel last year, in fact that is due to the remarkable filing, he definitely has the opportunity to win this, but he does not absolutely play as it is reflected in his results in this season. Wawrinka must be very strong for the Romanian on the first day of the week.