{"id":21153,"date":"2019-10-19T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T20:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=21153"},"modified":"2019-10-19T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T20:37:54","slug":"atp-european-open-final-prediction-murray-wawrinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/10\/19\/atp-european-open-final-prediction-murray-wawrinka\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP European Open Final Prediction: Andy Murray vs Stan Wawrinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ATP European Open 2019 comes to a close with a fantastic finale as two three-time Grand Slam champions go head-to-head in Antwerp. But who will come out on top?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;\">ATP European Open Final Prediction<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andy Murray vs Stan Wawrinka\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head-to-head: Murray 11-8 Wawrinka\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andy Murray did well to snatch the momentum back from Ugo Humbert in his semifinal after losing the first set, ultimately rallying to a 3-6 7-5 6-2 win.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stan Wawrinka too has looked sharp so far at the European Open, but he will<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have to play his best match to win the title. He played his best match yet against Jannik Sinner, winning 81% of his first serve points and losing his service game only once. At no point did Wawrinka look under any kind of pressure against the in-form Sinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These two are veterans of the game and are no strangers to each other. They\u2019ve played each other 19 times and their 20th meeting may be one of their most interesting clashes. They last met in Eastbourne last season, where Murray won convincingly. But lots has changed since then. The Briton initially struggled on his return to action, but <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/2019\/10\/01\/will-andy-murray-win-an-atp-tournament-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impressed during the Asian swing<\/a> and he has carried that good form into the European Open.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But he has also spent a lot of time out on court this week so fatigue could be an issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Murray has toiled in his last two matches and against Wawrinka, he can\u2019t afford any slip-ups because the Swiss can be devastating on faster indoor courts. Even though Murray is taking solid steps to recover his best form, the Swiss has been playing at a good level since the US Open and based on this week\u2019s performances Wawrinka looks better poised to take home the trophy. Expect a fierce contest with the Brit giving his all but Wawrinka has the tools to overpower Murray and wrestle the match in his favor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prediction: Wawrinka in 3<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"y310MsDkR9J-8D3KEBrtLQ\" 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\/1176376899\" 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:'y310MsDkR9J-8D3KEBrtLQ',sig:'i0Zluqccnm1n0qZ6aDn0C833-0giMCOb6IetnVq1gN0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1176376899',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>The ATP European Open 2019 comes to a close with a fantastic finale as two three-time Grand Slam champions go head-to-head in Antwerp. But who will come out on top? ATP European Open Final Prediction Andy Murray vs Stan Wawrinka\u00a0 Head-to-head: Murray 11-8 Wawrinka\u00a0 Andy Murray did well to snatch the momentum back from Ugo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3075,"featured_media":21166,"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":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,69],"tags":[16,9434,9323,9435,18,9286,9433,115,48,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-21153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-predictions","tag-andy-murray","tag-andy-murray-vs-stan-wawrinka-prediction","tag-antwerp-open-2019","tag-antwerp-open-final","tag-atp","tag-atp-european-open-2019","tag-atp-european-open-final-prediction","tag-stan-wawrinka","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Jim Smith","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153","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\/3075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}