{"id":46146,"date":"2022-01-31T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=46146"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:56:03","slug":"atp-pune-day-2-predictions-ruusuvuori-gerasimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/01\/31\/atp-pune-day-2-predictions-ruusuvuori-gerasimov\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Pune Day 2 Predictions Including Egor Gerasimov vs Emil Ruusuvuori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an exciting opening day of main draw action, Day 2 of the ATP Maharashtra Open in Pune is going to bring us the rest of the first-round matches. As always, we here at LWOT will preview and predict every match It&#8217;s going to be packed with action, so we have a second prediction article <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/01\/31\/atp-pune-day-2-predictions-majchrzak-clarke\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">with the other four clashes<\/a>, including Kamil Majchrzak vs Jay Clarke. Who do you think will advance?<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Pune Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Ramkumar Ramanathan vs Stefano Travaglia<\/h4>\n<p>H2H: first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Ramanathan has had a winless Australian summer with losses to Gian Marco Moroni and Holger Rune but was finding form at the end of last season as he won a Challenger in Manama. He faces eighth seed Stefano Travaglia, who is also having a difficult time starting his 2022. The Italian has already lost four times and has had one win over No. 745, Matthew Christopher Romios. Despite his odd season last year, I still view Travaglia as a step above Ramanathan at his point, so I believe he will advance.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Travaglia in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"1geFT_PIRsdcBJHfqLjK1w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1365267072\" 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:'1geFT_PIRsdcBJHfqLjK1w',sig:'g7nWqmsRPaDP34tuT0liKdaV0V7LjBAckUByw_eVVZE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1365267072',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Hugo Grenier vs Aleksandar Vukic<\/h4>\n<p>H2H: first meeting<\/p>\n<p>A very exciting match-up between two strong <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/atp-challenger-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Challenger-level<\/a> hard-court players, though a question mark hangs over it, Grenier&#8217;s fitness. The Frenchman was forced to retire in the quarterfinals of Bendigo in week one and certainly did not look fit in Australian Open qualifying. Meanwhile, Vukic reached the quarterfinals at a 250 in Adelaide and won a match at the Australian Open, so his form coming in is certainly superior. The Australian should be the favorite here, especially due to the uncertainties around Grenier.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Vukic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"76gTuxt5RbdtVH-kCuykSg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1365542201\" 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:'76gTuxt5RbdtVH-kCuykSg',sig:'E3ALwWABETUHuH0WgCiLk4Vhfmm5iJN9rmvnFqrkd3E=',w:'461px',h:'594px',items:'1365542201',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Dennis Novak vs Bernabe Zapata Miralles<\/h4>\n<p>H2H: Zapata Miralles 1-0 Novak<\/p>\n<p>Both are very strong Challenger players on particular services, with Novak being a danger especially on indoor hard and Zapata Miralles a solid clay courter. The Austrian skipped Australia and started his year with a strong run to the semifinals in Quimper while the Spaniard didn&#8217;t win a set in his losses to Andreas Seppi and Dmitry Popko. Despite their last meeting, Novak is definitely the favorite for me.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Novak in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"KO7eZqUIRDNSk5TnPn5kiQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1356027361\" 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:'KO7eZqUIRDNSk5TnPn5kiQ',sig:'vDmvkbmeFKVqHfu67V2kukDtquLOGhT4-7lfHug58Ik=',w:'594px',h:'410px',items:'1356027361',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Emil Ruusuvuori vs Egor Gerasimov<\/h4>\n<p>H2H: Gerasimov 1-0 Ruusuvuori<\/p>\n<p>An exciting match-up between two main tour players, one of the few in the first round here. Ruusuvuori was pretty strong in Australia, reaching a semifinal at a warm-up 250 in Melbourne before taking two sets off <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/04\/16\/why-felix-auger-aliassime-will-be-the-greatest-player-of-his-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a>. Gerasimov was also solid to start the season, qualifying to reach the quarterfinals in Adelaide. The Belarusian won their previous dramatic meeting in Marseille 2020 in a third-set tiebreak, so we might see another marathon match here, though I expect Ruusuvuori to come out the winner this time.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Ruusuvuori in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an exciting opening day of main draw action, Day 2 of the ATP Maharashtra Open in Pune is going to bring us the rest of the first-round matches. As always, we here at LWOT will preview and predict every match It&#8217;s going to be packed with action, so we have a second prediction article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1821,"featured_media":36588,"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":[12603,16061,17241,4093,4095,11829,15557,2405,16203,8384,15482,8884,15511,13459,17242,5016,16560,1525,15454,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-46146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-aleksandar-vukic","tag-aleksandar-vukic-predictions","tag-atp-maharashtra-open-predictions","tag-atp-pune","tag-atp-pune-predictions","tag-bernabe-zapata-miralles","tag-bernabe-zapata-miralles-predictions","tag-dennis-novak","tag-dennis-novak-predictions","tag-egor-gerasimov","tag-egor-gerasimov-predictions","tag-emil-ruusuvuori","tag-emil-ruusuvuori-predictions","tag-hugo-grenier","tag-hugo-grenier-predictions","tag-ramkumar-ramanathan","tag-ramkumar-ramanathan-predictions","tag-stefano-travaglia","tag-stefano-travaglia-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46146","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\/1821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}