John Isner is feeling confident. After his utter domination of P-H Herbert, the clay court specialist himself, Isner must feel good about his chances against Delpo, the 5th seed in the French. Juan Martin Del Potro himself has been having a solid French Open, beating the great Ramos Vinolas in the third round. Let’s have some real talk right now. The last time that Isner and Delpo played, Isner demolished him in straight sets and even broke Delpo twice. Also, Isner’s forehand has been absolute fire as of late. One thing for sure, their match is going to be a freaking banger.

Let’s start getting hypothetical here. Because everyone loves hypotheticals right? Let’s say that Delpo beats John Isner because let’s be real Isner is absolute garbage on clay. Delpo would face the winner of the Fognini-Cilic match, which is actually going to be a hard match to call. But I have faith in Delpo or at least enough faith that he can beat either Cilic on his worst surface or the mental case that is Fognini.

If Delpo beats either of the two, he’s into the semi-finals, where he would face Rafael Nadal. I’m not even going to put an alternative player that he could face, because we all know damn well that Rafa is gonna make it to the semifinals. Delpo is probably the only person in Rafa’s half of the draw who could stop him. Let’s look at the potential matchup.

Delpo has a 5-9 head-to-head with Nadal, with his only loss coming all the way back in 2007, being a straight set loss. Their most recent meeting was featured in the US Open last year, where Delpo lost in 4 sets. But that Delpo was exhausted and didn’t have a backhand. The Delpo of today has an actual backhand, and his forehand is better than ever.

Delpo hits a flatter ball, one that is known to mess with Nadal’s rhythm. Kyrgios, Rosol, Dustin Brown, and Djokovic are notorious for giving Nadal trouble with their flat and hard shots. Delpo is no different, having one of the best head-to-heads against Nadal out of the entire tour.

I’m going to be the prophet here. My latest predictions of the Djokovic-Verdasco and Thiem-Nishikori matches were pretty correct, bar my incorrect score predictions, so I’m feeling pretty smart. I predict that Delpo will breeze through the fourth round and the quarters, and take out Nadal in a five-set thriller, 7-6 6-4 5-7 2-6 6-4. But please don’t @ me on this one.