{"id":43351,"date":"2021-10-28T14:05:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=43351"},"modified":"2021-10-28T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T18:52:40","slug":"atp-st-petersburg-quarterfinal-predictions-bautista-agut-cilic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/10\/28\/atp-st-petersburg-quarterfinal-predictions-bautista-agut-cilic\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP St. Petersburg Quarterfinal Predictions Including Roberto Bautista-Agut vs Marin Cilic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the final events on the ATP calendar for 2021, we now have the last eight men remaining in St. Petersburg&#8211;featuring top two seeds Andrey Rublev and Denis Shapovalov, alongside Grand Slam champion Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP St. Petersburg Quarter-Final Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Andrey Rublev vs Botic Van De Zandschulp<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: 0-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If there was any time this year to want to play Andrey Rublev, it probably would be now, despite this event being in his home country. The Russian, coming into this match, has won just two of his last five matches&#8211;with all those losses to players ranked outside the top 25. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/09\/07\/botic-van-de-zandschulp-next-aslan-karatsev\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Botic Van De Zandschulp<\/a>, on the other hand, has finally started to build off his dream US Open quarterfinal run. He finds himself into the last eight here without dropping a set, including a great win over up-and-coming American Sebastian Korda. Rublev showed more signs of being <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/01\/23\/andrey-rublev-rising-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the player he was earlier this year<\/a> in his previous match, routing Ivashka&#8211;who\u2019s been in good form lately, so perhaps that\u2019s something he will build from.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Rublev in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ZTzWIYHtQbNpJRYxhOuRTw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1236024330\" 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:'ZTzWIYHtQbNpJRYxhOuRTw',sig:'eZTL54nECEAomYPPTARtv4011gEy6L9YrTjcCm5epqc=',w:'594px',h:'446px',items:'1236024330',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Jan-Lennard Struff vs Denis Shapovalov<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Struff 4-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s somewhat mad to think Struff leads this rivalry fairly convincingly, but when you look at the matchup in detail it perhaps doesn\u2019t. Ever since Shapovalov broke onto the scene back in 2017 it\u2019s been a display of a player known for aggressive big-time tennis. When it comes to being on the back foot, however, it\u2019s always lacked&#8211;and even four years on still does. Even though the Canadian won their only encounter this year, losing just four games, this will no doubt be a tighter affair indoors where Struff can deliver huge serves and play hard hitting tennis forcing the youngster to defend. It\u2019s a hard one to call since Shapovalov hasn\u2019t been in good form lately but I pick him out to edge this one.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Shapovalov in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nMuGujoqSy1GzJTsxFgv6Q\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1346083122\" 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:'nMuGujoqSy1GzJTsxFgv6Q',sig:'N1OmXO7gheNMIqdTHoqc0PmySMimnupzRP8_XkTCiJ8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1346083122',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>John Millman vs Taylor Fritz<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Fritz 1-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to say Taylor Fritz is finally starting to put it all together. Backing up an Indian Wells semifinal with a good run here, now Australian John Millman stands in his way. With Millman you know what you\u2019re going to get&#8211;a counterpuncher who can grind you to the ground without possessing a huge weapon of his own to go out there and take it to most players. With the American in this sort of form, Millman\u2019s defensive play will struggle on an indoor court more than ever. Fritz should dominate and get the better of the 32-year-old, just like in their only previous ATP main draw meeting.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Fritz in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"jE8NsnGqRw5xyJb11k9dLg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1349239479\" 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:'jE8NsnGqRw5xyJb11k9dLg',sig:'rO_hMscP1_axYhqTEisaLhTQO1o9oWprFPj7ksajum4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1349239479',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Roberto Bautista-Agut vs Marin Cilic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Cilic 5-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever since June, Marin Cilic has been somewhat closer to his old self than the last few years just highlighted with a great 1-4 down in the final set win against Olympic Silver Medalist Karen Khachanov in the last round. Bautista-Agut has been a shadow of himself all year and unfortunately for him, his results have not been improving as of late. The conditions here suit Cilic perfectly and it\u2019s hard to see this going any other way than form of the last few months from both men.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Cilic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the final events on the ATP calendar for 2021, we now have the last eight men remaining in St. Petersburg&#8211;featuring top two seeds Andrey Rublev and Denis Shapovalov, alongside Grand Slam champion Marin Cilic. ATP St. Petersburg Quarter-Final Predictions Andrey Rublev vs Botic Van De Zandschulp Head-to-head: 0-0 If there was any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":36997,"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":[511,15413,8698,8699,9553,15938,776,15517,4224,15612,1859,15452,50,15595,447,15519,347,15712,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-43351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-andrey-rublev","tag-andrey-rublev-predictions","tag-atp-st-petersburg","tag-atp-st-petersburg-predictions","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp-predictions","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-denis-shapovalov-predictions","tag-jan-lennard-struff","tag-jan-lennard-struff-predictions","tag-john-millman","tag-john-millman-predictions","tag-marin-cilic","tag-marin-cilic-predictions","tag-roberto-bautista-agut","tag-roberto-bautista-agut-predictions","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-taylor-fritz-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43351","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=43351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}