{"id":31706,"date":"2021-01-31T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=31706"},"modified":"2021-01-31T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T18:51:55","slug":"atp-murray-river-open-day-1-predictions-paul-norrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/01\/31\/atp-murray-river-open-day-1-predictions-paul-norrie\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Murray River Open Day 1 Predictions Including Tommy Paul vs Cameron Norrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another event taking place at Melbourne Park this week, it\u2019s the ATP Murray River Open, not to be confused with Andy Murray, as he\u2019s neither in the event or Australia altogether! Headlined by former Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka, there\u2019s a number of ATP players trying to start off their season in the best possible fashion. Here are predictions for some of the more intriguing opening day matches.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Murray River Open Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Sumit Nagal vs Ricardas Berankis<\/h4>\n<p>Head to head: 0-0<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the Indian is still young at only 23, he hasn\u2019t made the impact on tour many thought he could with the sort of game he possesses. It\u2019s been too much of great spells only occurring in the odd match here and there. On the other hand, Berankis, now 30, has spent his whole career with people thinking he was better than his results were to show. In a battle of somewhat underachievers, it will be close but Berankis has the far more solid ground game with tons more experience on his side which will get him over the finish line.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Berankis in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"cj3l6_HpSYdDV6SwV734-A\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1132765173\" 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:'cj3l6_HpSYdDV6SwV734-A',sig:'BUhKrGl0rWuAM8XPvBjnfZd9TUGpcc8AOHuGBSLQV0M=',w:'594px',h:'401px',items:'1132765173',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Blake Mott vs Albert Ramos-Vinolas<\/h4>\n<p>Head to head: 0-0<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re probably thinking to yourself, &#8220;who the heck is Blake Mott?&#8221; Well he\u2019s actually a wild card here and ranked #480 in the world. That\u2019s right, 480! Playing the World #46 and former Masters finalist in Ramos is going to be far too much of a task. I mean, Mott\u2019s last few losses have all from players ranked outside the top 200, some even being ranked far lower. Barring a miracle, this will be an easy win for Ramos-Vinolas.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Ramos-Vinolas in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"PCnzE01WQ9xuk4mi2LyVNA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1277764921\" 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:'PCnzE01WQ9xuk4mi2LyVNA',sig:'5ZeQHwkgYg0p-ulg_0Hbzt-znPtpl91TMjfTx54AdaQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1277764921',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Marton Fucsovics vs Marco Cecchinato<\/h4>\n<p>Head to head: Fucsovics 2-1<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Cecchinato <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2018\/06\/05\/marco-cecchinato-knocks-novak-djokovic-french-open-becomes-first-italian-to-reach-major-semifinal-in-40-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">made the Roland Garros semifinals<\/a> just three years ago? Since then he\u2019s not really done anything of note. In fact, on hard courts he hasn\u2019t really done anything whatsoever, besides lose early on in almost every event he\u2019s played. Fucsovics, on the other hand, a former Wimbledon juniors champion, has never reached anywhere near the same highs on the main tour, but what he is now is a solid professional who can produce on hard courts. In a very nice opening match for Fucsovics, he should prevail without much trouble.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Fucsovics in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"xoCC9eLEQulHk6wSTguRlg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1229414229\" 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:'xoCC9eLEQulHk6wSTguRlg',sig:'0n1SnAA89ETmIoGshObRMgx3-0spdNP8PxOnt26a-LE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229414229',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Tommy Paul vs Cameron Norrie<\/h4>\n<p>Head to head: Paul 1-0 (Challenger match)<\/p>\n<p>World # 53 against World #67. Not much to pick between them and I think both have impressed and already achieved far more in their young careers than most people would have ever thought. Whilst Norrie is definitely the more consistent of the two, Paul\u2019s highs on a hardcourt are higher. You know what you\u2019re going to get from the Brit, but with the American it\u2019s always up for question. This match could really go either way, and I\u2019m going to sway just a little to the American\u2019s side.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Paul in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another event taking place at Melbourne Park this week, it\u2019s the ATP Murray River Open, not to be confused with Andy Murray, as he\u2019s neither in the event or Australia altogether! Headlined by former Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka, there\u2019s a number of ATP players trying to start off their season in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":23496,"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":[450,13685,13696,13722,13721,1688,155,3692,13723,2183,8243,13720,2373,2369,1635,13724],"class_list":["post-31706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-predictions","tag-albert-ramos-vinolas","tag-atp-melbourne-predictions","tag-atp-murray-river-open-predictions","tag-blake-mott","tag-blake-mott-vs-albert-ramos-vinolas-prediction","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-marco-cecchinato","tag-marton-fucsovics","tag-marton-fucsovics-vs-marco-cecchinato-prediction","tag-ricardas-berankis","tag-sumit-nagal","tag-sumit-nagal-vs-ricardas-berankis-prediction","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tommy-paul","tag-tommy-paul-vs-cameron-norrie-prediction"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706","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\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}