Abdel leads after half of the 4th round at the Miami ATP 1000 :



LLTL, Nelson : Your best result so far was a rank number 11. But what a performance at Miami ! 4 points ahead, and the best win percentage. With risky picks like Verdasco against Nadal, or Thiem against Lopez (you were the only one to pick them). What happens ?

Abdel : I think these results are drugs related, collateral damage. It disturbs a part of my brain but it enhanced the pronosticator instinct.
Actually that day I made my picks with more casualness and indifference than normally.
I think I found the good technique :)
"Winner" advice : don't wait for the names of the qualifiers, let the luck plays !

LLTL, Nelson : Just a word about your avatar : Younes El Aynaoui. Did you chose him because of his "good reputation", as babass said about Arnaud Boetsch ?

Abdel : I'm from Morocco, I had to wink (you know a "bicot" is always linked to his origin).
As any avatar (I think we have to remind its definition : in Hinduism, an avatar is an incarnation (animals, human people, ...) of a god, who went to Earth to set up the dharma, save the worlds from the cosmic chaos caused by the ennemies of the gods (the demons)), so you can understand why I chose Younes!

Answers collected and translated by Nelson.