This Saturday at the ATP 250 event in Stuttgart will feature a very strong grass court lineup, with defending champion Taylor Fritz, two-time Halle champion Alexander Bublik and last year’s Queen’s finalist Jiri Lehecka. It should be a great day of grass court tennis in Stuttgart, with two very tight semifinal matches and every player remaining having a realistic chance of taking the trophy home. One semifinal is not set yet, as Jiri Lehecka will take on the winner of Ben Shelton vs Sho Shimabukuro, which was paused due to rain.
ATP Stuttgart Semifinal Predictions
Alexander Bublik vs Taylor Fritz
Head-to-head: Bublik 4-3 Fritz
Both players have won multiple titles on this surface in their careers, including some great success on the surface last year, with Fritz being the defending champion here and Stuttgart and Bublik having won Halle. Both players really enjoy playing on the green stuff and will certainly be expecting to have deep runs at Wimbledon and, of course, to lift this trophy on Sunday.
Fritz is generally the better player of the two but he has been struggling so far this week, coming very close to losing both of his matches so far this week against opponents he was clearly favorited to beat; Bublik himself hasn’t been in great form lately, but his serve has been looking more solid thus far this week. That said, it should be a very close, heavily serve-dominated match, decided by the tightest of margins and quite possibly tiebreakers.
Prediction: Fritz in 3
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