The match is best played by three sets at the Royal Tennis Hall in Stockholm. Little brother Mikael, 21, has risen to the rankings and is now 68th in the world. Big brother Elias, 24, was close to cracking the top 100 in the rankings a couple of years ago but is now 201rd in the world.
According to the official statistics of the ATP tour, they have only met twice, for quite a long time since 2014 and 2015, then with Elias as the winner.
- Elias was the first to break through and reached the top 100 but has fallen back. Mikael is the favorite. It's time for him to show who's the best in the family. Otherwise Elias has had a very easy time beating Mikael, says SVT Sports Johan Ejeborg who will comment on the match together with DC captain Robin Söderling who coached Elias.
"It's not a competition match"The match will be special in the middle of the corona pandemic with strict safety regulations, few officials and no audience.
- It will be different not to hear the stomp in the benches which is so classic for the Stockholm Open, predicts Ejeborg.
Tournaments have been played, both on the track and in virtual form, during the pandemic. Officially, tennis at the highest level, ATP and WTA, is paused until mid-July.
- It should be clear that this is not a competition match. There will be trials with micro tournaments, but it will be until full scale tournaments.
But for a while, the quarantine around sports in Sweden is broken.
- We have thirst for live sports, Ejeborg sums up.
Next Sunday, it is a table tennis challenge in the same format that SVT broadcasts from Halmstad.