{"id":22617,"date":"2020-01-05T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=22617"},"modified":"2020-01-05T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T16:43:09","slug":"atp-cup-day-4-predictions-anderson-garin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/01\/05\/atp-cup-day-4-predictions-anderson-garin\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Cup Day 4 Predictions Including Kevin Anderson vs Christian Garin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re up to Day 4 of the inaugural ATP Cup. We&#8217;ve seen intense emotions, great tennis, and quality upsets so far. What does the rest of the tournament have in store? Let&#8217;s find out, as group play really heats up. We also have predictions for four other <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/2020\/01\/05\/atp-cup-day-4-predictions-including-novak-djokovic-vs-gael-monfils\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATP Cup matches on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Cup Day 4 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4><strong>Benoit Paire vs Dusan Lajovic<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Each of these players picked up good wins in their initial matches. Paire is the better player, though he can be less consistent at times. This should be a good match, and I expect three sets, but the Frenchman is the safer pick to win.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Paire in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"7cUj9BeASvdP4nOliQt4bQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1191505555\" 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:'7cUj9BeASvdP4nOliQt4bQ',sig:'sgvydwZk_R05Xkjyjq-N9nlV8ckHXkyaM6PuRM5LqBk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1191505555',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Yoshihito Nishioka vs Nikoloz Basilashvili<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Nishioka shockingly dominated Pablo Cuevas in his opening match, while Basilashvili fought hard before ultimately losing to Rafael Nadal. There&#8217;s no shame in that, though it was nowhere near as impressive as what Nishioka did. Nishioka has been improving in recent years, and looks to have made a good jump in the offseason, but Basilashvili has the matchup advantage in this one.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Basilashvili in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"UHjJAFDNQHlwq8H5tRh0vg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1197479403\" 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:'UHjJAFDNQHlwq8H5tRh0vg',sig:'_aVwC_rqN9andzH97bfFSTIjsbCvIjZTwpn0w-jFN5k=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1197479403',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Marin Cilic vs Kamil Majchrzak<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Cilic looked decent in his opener against Dennis Novak, but nowhere near his absolute best. Majchrzak is a solid talent and improving, but there&#8217;s not much he can do against the raw power of Cilic. As long as Cilic is playing consistent tennis, he&#8217;ll win this match easily.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Cilic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"VHxslTfPSkhNqgAn19eOsg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1191576030\" 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:'VHxslTfPSkhNqgAn19eOsg',sig:'ul37Gdlw69h5DjA6s6qHcthVEluDit8EEpE19YAgoFE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1191576030',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Kevin Anderson vs Christian Garin<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Garin lost a very tough opening match to Gael Monfils, while Kevin Anderson pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/2019\/12\/31\/novak-djokovic-year-in-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> to the brink in his first match, but couldn&#8217;t win either tiebreak. Garin might be able to take a tiebreak, but Anderson will be the better player here.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Anderson in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"zqCnQjU-SdhccYqJOpOi3g\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1191567042\" 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:'zqCnQjU-SdhccYqJOpOi3g',sig:'6t92OOMstNpZ1fyzmTqDcwxKCKkC5g2qoPAxo1Hmd3U=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1191567042',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>We&#8217;re up to Day 4 of the inaugural ATP Cup. We&#8217;ve seen intense emotions, great tennis, and quality upsets so far. What does the rest of the tournament have in store? Let&#8217;s find out, as group play really heats up. We also have predictions for four other ATP Cup matches on Monday. ATP Cup Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":22618,"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":[69],"tags":[9448,10034,351,10061,1370,2070,4367,1115,10060,50,10063,3515,2373,2369,835,10062],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-atp-cup","tag-atp-cup-predictions","tag-benoit-paire","tag-benoit-paire-vs-dusan-lajovic-prediction","tag-christian-garin","tag-dusan-lajovic","tag-kamil-majchrzak","tag-kevin-anderson","tag-kevin-anderson-vs-christian-garin-prediction","tag-marin-cilic","tag-marin-cilic-vs-kamil-majchrzak-prediction","tag-nikoloz-basilashvili","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-yoshihito-nishioka","tag-yoshihito-nishioka-vs-nikoloz-basilashvili-prediction"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","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\/1601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}