{"id":34017,"date":"2021-03-16T00:46:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=34017"},"modified":"2021-03-16T00:46:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T04:46:52","slug":"atp-acapulco-day-2-predictions-dimitrov-mannarino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/03\/16\/atp-acapulco-day-2-predictions-dimitrov-mannarino\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Acapulco Day 2 Predictions Including Grigor Dimitrov vs Adrian Mannarino"},"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 four 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-tsitsipas-paire\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Benoit Paire<\/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>Cameron Norrie vs Stefan Kozlov<\/h4>\n<p>Norrie is a former NCAA standout who hasn&#8217;t quite found the success that some others, like <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/02\/22\/steve-johnson-finding-form-delray-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Steve Johnson<\/a> has. Still, he&#8217;s improving and has been finding his form recently. Kozlov, meanwhile, is still learning what it takes to play at a level like this. He&#8217;ll learn against Norrie.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Norrie in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"SFgl6ULGRMVHf9N1XFZXxA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1304725905\" 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:'SFgl6ULGRMVHf9N1XFZXxA',sig:'GRkZj2kpf-d5cGdOhl0X1G9RtDfZLQZBMxeX_aCPLlg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1304725905',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Tallon Griekspoor vs Denis Kudla<\/h4>\n<p>I will freely admit to consistently underestimating Griekspoor. It&#8217;s not my fault, either&#8211;ever since I saw a joke years ago that Griekspoor and Matwe Middlekoop have names more reminiscent of Pokemon than tennis players, I haven&#8217;t been able to get it out of my head. So that may be at play here, but I also think Kudla is just a better player. The American is more talented and more consistent, so he&#8217;s more likely to win this match. (Yes, I know this is a weird admission to make. But I have to give full disclosure in case my pick on this match is biased.)<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kudla in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"79yVPIQbSVR54MR05Y6zaQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1199378619\" 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:'79yVPIQbSVR54MR05Y6zaQ',sig:'hp4aYQIHDt9AlJ8yb4qd5x0H3mjagXOWuoCmcyQAr2Q=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1199378619',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 Milos Raonic<\/h4>\n<p>Paul is a solid player who&#8217;s steadily improving, but Raonic is a potentially elite player. Any match could go either way if tiebreaks go against the Canadian, but he is the far safer pick.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Raonic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"6W3lOBlISEFSQ2jy743-rw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1299863404\" 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:'6W3lOBlISEFSQ2jy743-rw',sig:'PGyuCaHqxRD34kwA3Hd3t2rXZUuehDcJdPmDsabuu0c=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1299863404',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Grigor Dimitrov vs Adrian Mannarino<\/h4>\n<p>Mannarino is playing solid and consistent tennis now, though he was at a slightly higher level recently. Dimitrov, meanwhile, is still capable of elite-level tennis, but he just can&#8217;t do it often anymore. It&#8217;s tough to pick against him, always, because he can bring the top game any match, but it doesn&#8217;t happen often enough any more.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Mannarino in 3<\/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 four matches, and we have two other articles as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1601,"featured_media":29867,"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":[1877,14821,4851,1688,14874,2401,411,14873,20,1631,4692,14875,2373,2369,1635,14876],"class_list":["post-34017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-adrian-mannarino","tag-atp-abierto-mexicano-telcel-predictions","tag-atp-acapulco-predictions","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-cameron-norrie-vs-stefan-kozlov-prediction","tag-denis-kudla","tag-grigor-dimitrov","tag-grigor-dimitrov-vs-adrian-mannarino-prediction","tag-milos-raonic","tag-stefan-kozlov","tag-tallon-griekspoor","tag-tallon-griekspoor-vs-denis-kudla-prediction","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tommy-paul","tag-tommy-paul-vs-milos-raonic-prediction"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017","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=34017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}