{"id":12936,"date":"2019-03-19T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=12936"},"modified":"2019-03-19T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:52:17","slug":"atp-miami-day-1-predictions-including-tomas-berdych-vs-bernard-tomic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/03\/19\/atp-miami-day-1-predictions-including-tomas-berdych-vs-bernard-tomic\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Miami Day 1 Predictions Including Tomas Berdych vs Bernard Tomic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 of Main Draw action on the men&#8217;s side at the Miami Open is always jam-packed, but a washout on Tuesday led to a limited number of main draw matches as the final round of qualifying is yet to be finished.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Miami Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h3>Janko Tipsarevic vs Bradley Klahn<\/h3>\n<p>Janko Tipsarevic hasn&#8217;t won a tour-level event match since defeating Thanasi Kokkinakis at the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Open<\/a>, but received entry into the Miami Open using his protected ranking after missing the 2018 season. Tipsarevic, who was once a top ten player, has a real chance of winning as he&#8217;s facing a player in Klahn who&#8217;s had injury issues recently as well. Both players will probably look at this as an excellent opportunity to get to the second round, but I like the more experienced player in Tipsarevic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Tipsarevic in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"-PzlZb9jQRRz95sJndATbw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1082127756\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-PzlZb9jQRRz95sJndATbw',sig:'OUSONUeug4mhZ_UyvEZ1PP7CINc6BzuBxWPvK18GlVg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1082127756',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Maximilian Marterer vs Taylor Fritz<\/h3>\n<p>Taylor Fritz had a great start to the season, reaching the round of 32 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/australian-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian Open<\/a> and winning the Newport Beach Challenger as well. He&#8217;s struggled since then, with opening-round losses in Delray Beach and Indian Wells. Fritz has a slight edge given the surface, but I expect Marterer to keep it close.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Fritz in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"jLR8CxUBSFBpZSNrbVeMQA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1125146250\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'jLR8CxUBSFBpZSNrbVeMQA',sig:'q2QlhngWuvEYGOTztNTXooJ6TyxtTOjIUs6ItcNq4V8=',w:'594px',h:'418px',items:'1125146250',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Nicolas Jarry vs Jeremy Chardy<\/h3>\n<p>Nicolas Jarry was unable to replicate his 2018 success on the &#8220;Golden Swing&#8221; but managed to pick up a big win over Frances Tiafoe at the BNP Paribas Open. The crowd in Miami is always raucous when a South American is in action, but it&#8217;s nothing Chardy hasn&#8217;t seen before in his long career. They have similar styles of play, but Chardy does everything a little better when he&#8217;s on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Chardy in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"4ETSfV2zSalQmrgQQCxvAg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1127778899\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'4ETSfV2zSalQmrgQQCxvAg',sig:'hHedW7b7_EaZAP6qdky5ieYWrsK_lgiOJHGkYrUDlj8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1127778899',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Bernard Tomic vs Tomas Berdych<\/h3>\n<p>Tomas Berdych will look to get back on track after a disappointing loss in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open to veteran Feliciano Lopez. Berdych has had no trouble in the past against Tomic, with a 5-0 H2H record against the Australian. If Tomic decides to play motivated it should be a good match, but I wouldn&#8217;t count on it. I think Berdych gets through comfortably.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Berdych in 2<\/em><br \/>\n<a id=\"nZidwFtTTHBJRRv8UPxX6Q\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1134567063\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nZidwFtTTHBJRRv8UPxX6Q',sig:'qfEfmUQ5oVVPqU2BnMimESpyeLZO5ibE6jidPlciSXg=',w:'452px',h:'594px',items:'1134567063',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 of Main Draw action on the men&#8217;s side at the Miami Open is always jam-packed, but a washout on Tuesday led to a limited number of main draw matches as the final round of qualifying is yet to be finished. ATP Miami Day 1 Predictions Janko Tipsarevic vs Bradley Klahn Janko Tipsarevic hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2115,"featured_media":12608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,69],"tags":[5085,2777,5098,366,92,5093,3187,5099,986,347,2373,2369,51],"class_list":["post-12936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-predictions","tag-2019-miami-open","tag-atp-miami","tag-atp-miami-open-predictions","tag-bernard-tomic","tag-janko-tipsarevic","tag-janko-tipsarevic-prediction","tag-jeremy-chardy","tag-maximillian-marterer","tag-nicolas-jarry","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tomas-berdych"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}