{"id":34016,"date":"2021-03-16T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=34016"},"modified":"2021-03-16T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:00:25","slug":"atp-acapulco-day-2-predictions-tsitsipas-paire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/03\/16\/atp-acapulco-day-2-predictions-tsitsipas-paire\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Acapulco Day 2 Predictions Including Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Benoit Paire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We move on to Day 2 of the ATP Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco on Tuesday, with ten matches on the slate. There should be some great tennis at this ATP 500 event, and we&#8217;re going to predict every match for you. This article looks at three matches, and we have two other articles as well. One features <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/03\/16\/atp-acapulco-day-2-predictions-dimitrov-mannarino\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Grigor Dimitrov vs Adrian Mannarino<\/a>, and the other highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/03\/16\/atp-acapulco-day-2-predictions-fognini-travaglia\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Fabio Fognini vs Stefano Travaglia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Acapulco Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Brandon Nakashima vs Frances Tiafoe<\/h4>\n<p>This all-American battle is a fascinating contrast. Nakashima played his way through college and is slowly building up a reputation on the professional tours. Tiafoe, meanwhile, was formerly expected to be the next American great but it just never quite panned out, for plenty of reasons. This is a matchup of America&#8217;s former future standout against a potential future top player. Nakashima doesn&#8217;t quite have the potential that Tiafoe had, but don&#8217;t sleep on him. He&#8217;s playing really well right now and I think he&#8217;ll pull off this match.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Nakashima in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"XkivTVmXS8BLrQRi3TUb_A\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1263436367\" 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:'XkivTVmXS8BLrQRi3TUb_A',sig:'alnLtH-Jvh8T4t_96g5-vmHoLeAMlc740K5qQTap27o=',w:'594px',h:'385px',items:'1263436367',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Daniel Galan vs Casper Ruud<\/h4>\n<p>Galan was impressive to end 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/02\/24\/daniel-galan-fails-to-bring-2020-form-into-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">but he hasn&#8217;t quite played that well this season<\/a>. Ruud, meanwhile, is a very strong player who still needs to work on his consistency. Still, playing against an out-of-form player is a great way to find some new form of your own. Ruud should win this, and it will be a good start in this tournament for him.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Ruud in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Um6rB6NVRnBWguoz4Syckw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231174987\" 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:'Um6rB6NVRnBWguoz4Syckw',sig:'b7mQp-V4-zKpviwyW654-pBNR1tv0fiacfDfPsR2GPQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231174987',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Benoit Paire<\/h4>\n<p>Paire can be hot and cold (to say the least), and his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/benoit-paire-blasts-atp-tour-050100179.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comments about playing without fans<\/a> make it hard to trust his commitment at the moment. Even on Paire&#8217;s best day, though, he would have a hard time challenging the young Greek. Tsitsipas should win this match as long as he plays even at 60% of his best.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Tsitsipas in 2 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We move on to Day 2 of the ATP Abierto Mexicano Telcel in Acapulco on Tuesday, with ten matches on the slate. There should be some great tennis at this ATP 500 event, and we&#8217;re going to predict every match for you. This article looks at three matches, and we have two other articles as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":33341,"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":[14821,4851,351,14877,10956,14878,811,5388,14879,348,304,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-34016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-atp-abierto-mexicano-telcel-predictions","tag-atp-acapulco-predictions","tag-benoit-paire","tag-benoit-paire-vs-stefanos-tsitsipas-prediction","tag-brandon-nakashima","tag-brandon-nakashima-vs-frances-tiafoe-prediction","tag-casper-ruud","tag-daniel-elahi-galan","tag-daniel-galan-vs-casper-ruud-prediction","tag-frances-tiafoe","tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016","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=34016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}