{"id":29683,"date":"2020-10-30T15:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=29683"},"modified":"2020-10-30T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:13:22","slug":"atp-nur-sultan-semifinal-predictions-millman-tiafoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/10\/30\/atp-nur-sultan-semifinal-predictions-millman-tiafoe\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Nur-Sultan Semifinal Predictions Including John Millman vs Frances Tiafoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semifinals are here! It&#8217;s been an incredible week of tennis in Nur-Sultan and we are down to the final four! Who will get to the championship match and who will fall short? We share our thoughts!<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Nur-Sultan Semifinal Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>John Millman vs Frances Tiafoe<\/h4>\n<p>Head to Head: tied 2-2<\/p>\n<p>John Millman had an incredible rally in the quarterfinals against Tommy Paul. Millman saved two match points and rallied from *2-5 in the third and *0-5 in the third set tiebreak to advance to the semifinals. Frances Tiafoe also had a great recovery in his quarterfinal match against Egor Gerasmiov. Tiafoe came back from *4-3 40-30 in the third set against Gerasimov.\u00a0 Both players are certainly playing with house money at this point!<\/p>\n<p>The head to head is tied 2-2, with Millman leading 2-1 on hard courts. However, Tiafoe recently beat Millman at the US Open in five sets. This is a very tough matchup to call. Will Tiafoe be able to show the controlled aggression necessary to win or will he overhit against Millman&#8217;s incredible consistency? Given that Tiafoe is in great form and Millman was not quite as sturdy from the baseline as usual, I expect Tiafoe to reach the final! But, it will be close.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Tiafoe in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"F1ltKxHVRVx-n7BU1BEDmA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1229200063\" 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:'F1ltKxHVRVx-n7BU1BEDmA',sig:'vKvKHKAhp9i9R6-yeqr4ZMexbDkb42xkg8fSEcjLV4g=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229200063',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Adrian Mannarino vs Emil Ruusuvuori<\/h4>\n<p>Head to Head: never played<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Mannarino has played four sets in Nur-Sultan and he&#8217;s won 6-1 in three of the four sets. In the quarterfinals, he took out Mackenzie McDonald 6-1 6-4. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/02\/05\/emil-ruusuvuori-is-a-name-to-remember-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Emil Ruusuvuori<\/a> is one step away from his first ATP Tour final. Ruusuvuori comfortably took out Mikhail Kukushkin in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>These two have never played before. This is certainly a contrast in styles. Ruusuvuori is in the &#8220;big serve + big groundstrokes&#8221; camp where he wants to play aggressive, first-strike tennis. Mannarino, with his flat lefty game, is more comfortable in extended rallies using angles and trying to work the point. Mannarino&#8217;s game works very well on indoor hard.\u00a0 Ruusuvuori will be full of nerves as he experiences trying to make his first final at this level. Mannarino&#8217;s also in good form and has the ability to force Ruusuvuori to win points with higher-risk tennis. This will be a very tight match, but Mannarino&#8217;s game and experience will see him through.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Mannarino in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semifinals are here! It&#8217;s been an incredible week of tennis in Nur-Sultan and we are down to the final four! Who will get to the championship match and who will fall short? We share our thoughts! ATP Nur-Sultan Semifinal Predictions John Millman vs Frances Tiafoe Head to Head: tied 2-2 John Millman had an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":29486,"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],"tags":[1877,13052,13004,8884,348,1859,13051,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-29683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-atp","tag-adrian-mannarino","tag-adrian-mannarino-vs-emil-ruusuvuori-prediction","tag-atp-nur-sultan-predictions","tag-emil-ruusuvuori","tag-frances-tiafoe","tag-john-millman","tag-john-millman-vs-frances-tiafoe-prediction","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29683","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\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}