{"id":20994,"date":"2019-10-15T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=20994"},"modified":"2019-10-15T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:30:47","slug":"atp-stockholm-tuesday-predictions-popyrin-otte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/10\/15\/atp-stockholm-tuesday-predictions-popyrin-otte\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Stockholm Open Tuesday Predictions Including Alexei Popyrin vs Oscar Otte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight main draw singles matches will be played on Tuesday at the Intrum Stockholm Open. While the highest seeds are not due to make their debut yet, the Royal Tennis Hall will host several intriguing matchups. But who will reach the second round?<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Stockholm Open Tuesday Predictions<\/h2>\n<h3>Filip Krajinovic vs Casper Ruud<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Head to head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Both players arrived at Stockholm in the midst of a mini slump after a tremendous campaign. The often injured Krajinovic owns one of the best backhands in the business, whereas the forehand is, without a doubt, Ruud\u2019s top weapon. Norway\u2019s top prospect has yet to make noise on hard at tour level events, so I\u2019m leaning toward a tight Krajinovic win, thus ending his three match losing streak.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Krajinovic in 2<br \/>\n<a id=\"fsEvbZecT9lRCIjZZlZYVQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1173905972\" target=\"_blank\" 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:'fsEvbZecT9lRCIjZZlZYVQ',sig:'RhPO5OwGKe-m0Px-qZrwguZa83N6wxuDkGDyCdGutq4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1173905972',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Elias Ymer vs Yuichi Sugita<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Head to head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Remember when the Swede qualified for all four Grand Slams in 2015, his age 19 season? Me too. He failed to win a main draw match and, aside from a legit Caltanissetta challenger title, did not really do much that season. Four years later, at No. 123, he still belongs in Grand Slam qualifying purgatory. Will his brother Mikael\u2019s breakout propel him to the Top 100? Swedish fans surely hope so. It\u2019s hard to be optimistic, though, since Ymer has not competed at all since the US Open. Besides, his latest hard court victory dates back to March. For his part, Sugita, who entered the draw as a lucky loser, was streaking prior to the US Open, but has gone cold since.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Ymer in 3<br \/>\n<a id=\"gh-Xm_wDRAJya9f7XPymtw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/905022526\" target=\"_blank\" 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:'gh-Xm_wDRAJya9f7XPymtw',sig:'cQv9X9LIS08njDwrY9BB1xCrolzQStH2KM0c6QdfLYs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'905022526',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Alexei Popyrin vs Oscar Otte<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Head to head:<\/strong> Popyrin 1-0 Otte<\/p>\n<p>Popyrin is one of the most exciting young players on tour. The Aussie has made a major leap in 2019, having jumped 60 spots since January. The youngsters have performed so well overall that he is still <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/2018\/12\/19\/way-too-early-2019-nextgen-power-rankins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the outside looking in in the Race to Milan<\/a> at No. 11. Popyrin could have collected many more points had he played more challengers, where he would probably dominate. Instead, he chose the high-risk, high-reward route of tour level qualifying draws. Including the Stockholm Open, the Australian has qualified for nine main draws this season. While those eighteen wins haven\u2019t produced many points, Popyrin will reap the benefits in the near future. Contrarily, Otte is a full-time challenger player with sporadic participations on the main circuit. The German lucky loser will attempt to rise to the occasion against Popyrin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prediction: Popyrin in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"rIegkQxRQMB1vHspppKdQw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1171401328\" target=\"_blank\" 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:'rIegkQxRQMB1vHspppKdQw',sig:'GYgZ6rbtQ_KpbdNK64oaAxbxqc-JV15K8FShv1JG1as=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1171401328',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight main draw singles matches will be played on Tuesday at the Intrum Stockholm Open. While the highest seeds are not due to make their debut yet, the Royal Tennis Hall will host several intriguing matchups. But who will reach the second round? ATP Stockholm Open Tuesday Predictions Filip Krajinovic vs Casper Ruud Head to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1663,"featured_media":21000,"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":[69,3],"tags":[3970,9337,3951,811,2399,9336,2203,9334,8726,4631,9335,835,906],"class_list":["post-20994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-atp","tag-alexei-popyrin","tag-alexei-popyrin-vs-oscar-otte-prediction","tag-atp-stockholm","tag-casper-ruud","tag-elias-ymer","tag-elias-ymer-vs-yuichi-sugita-prediction","tag-filip-krajinovic","tag-filip-krajinovic-vs-casper-ruud-prediction","tag-oscar-otte","tag-radu-albot","tag-radu-albot-vs-yoshihito-nishioka-prediction","tag-yoshihito-nishioka","tag-yuichi-sugita"],"modified_by":"Jim Smith","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994","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\/1663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}