{"id":28377,"date":"2020-09-20T21:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T01:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=28377"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T01:09:35","slug":"atp-rome-masters-final-prediction-novak-djokovic-vs-diego-schwartzman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/09\/20\/atp-rome-masters-final-prediction-novak-djokovic-vs-diego-schwartzman\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Rome Masters Final Prediction Novak Djokovic vs Diego Schwartzman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rome Masters final is upon us, Novak Djokovic, seeking an ATP record 36 Masters titles (including a 5th in Rome alone), takes on Diego Schwartzman, a first time Masters finalist. Here is your preview of the finals match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novak Djokovic vs Diego Schwartzman<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1228622010\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 69.865326% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1228622010?et=-kdJxko1TUxebkkbDTOxxg&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=5Ooe2ifYlwvHK5n0YwSw7WnCRsQfMvI1jz8sjteRgzU=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Djokovic had a relatively routine win against Casper Ruud in the semifinals, Schwartzman had a three set war with Denis Shapovalov, escaping in a third set tiebreak. Djokovic has also never lost to Schwartzman (4-0), though Schwartzman has kept the matches closer on clay than hard including a three setter in last year&#8217;s stop in Rome. Lots of neutrals will be rooting for Schwartzman here, but the reality is he&#8217;s a massive underdog, and Djokovic is unlikely to be stopped before the late rounds of Roland Garros at the soonest.<strong> Djokovic in 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1273689437\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 62.457912% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1273689437?et=RvgbYgCtQj1NTSDSuxgHUw&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=xkx-gtCTVGnpN9moyJf3J7nZOMIooBoS0mR_1_1HG_4=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rome Masters final is upon us, Novak Djokovic, seeking an ATP record 36 Masters titles (including a 5th in Rome alone), takes on Diego Schwartzman, a first time Masters finalist. Here is your preview of the finals match. Novak Djokovic vs Diego Schwartzman Embed from Getty Images While Djokovic had a relatively routine win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"featured_media":28378,"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":[69,3,11519],"tags":[12323,12448,12447,2202,12449,4657,2893,12445,12446,1124,2872,22,10557,2827,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-28377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-atp","category-tennis","tag-2020-italian-open","tag-2020-rome-masters","tag-atp-final","tag-atp-masters","tag-atp-masters-final","tag-atp-predictions","tag-atp-rome","tag-atp-rome-final","tag-atp-rome-prediction","tag-diego-schwartzman","tag-italian-open","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-novak-djokovic-vs-diego-schwartzman-prediction","tag-rome-masters","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28377","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\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}