{"id":47621,"date":"2022-03-11T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=47621"},"modified":"2022-03-11T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T20:03:50","slug":"atp-indian-wells-day-3-predictions-khachanov-brooksby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/03\/11\/atp-indian-wells-day-3-predictions-khachanov-brooksby\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Indian Wells Predictions, Including Karen Khachanov vs Jenson Brooksby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the ATP BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells has given us some interesting matches, including a player ranked outside the Top 200 moving on to Round 2. Day 3 matchups bring in the heavy-hitters after their byes, including <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/02\/24\/daniil-medvedev-1-federer-nadal-djokovic-murray\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">World #1 Daniil Medvedev<\/a>. Below we predict the outcomes, including Jannik Sinner vs Laslo Djere.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Indian Wells Day 3 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Daniil Medvedev vs Tomas Machac<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: first meeting<\/h4>\n<p>This one shouldn\u2019t be overthought. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com\/news\/articles\/only-way-i-can-play-daniil-medvedev-reacts-no-1-ranking-removal-russian-flags\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newly-minted world #1<\/a> has been nearly unbeatable this year; after losing his first match to Ugo Humbert with two tiebreaks, he has otherwise only lost to Nadal. Hard court is his favorite surface, and his young opponent has only played fourteen tour-level matches. There\u2019s not a whole lot of data to compare them, but the only significant stat is that this is an inexperienced player vs. the world #1 on his surface of choice.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Medvedev in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LO_JOmdfQoZyzsZys3esNw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1383570678\" 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:'LO_JOmdfQoZyzsZys3esNw',sig:'AoUp-PtLzOUa1ueD0B2yDBodCWzdvjhXz-zpT4SxclY=',w:'594px',h:'393px',items:'1383570678',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Jannik Sinner vs Laslo Djere<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Sinner 0-2 Djere<\/h4>\n<p>Is Jannik Sinner still just 20-years old? We talk about players older than him as if they\u2019re just breaking into the tour. He has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/01\/21\/jannik-sinner-poised-for-contention-in-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">played so competently<\/a> at such a young age that we have forgotten that he\u2019s still young, an illusion enhanced by the lack of emotional outbursts or mental immaturity one might expect of his peers. One might look at the H2H here and think Djere presents a good challenge, but both those wins were on clay, where Djere has a much higher win percentage (his hard court win percentage is only 25%, compared to Sinner\u2019s 71%). Sinner is 11-2 this year, with both losses in quarterfinals, although he doesn\u2019t have a marquee win this season. But Djere is just 3-5, with the aforementioned dearth of hard court victories. I would expect Sinner to handle this one well.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Sinner in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"IVbk6mk-S7laRqvFyB6XTQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1380557694\" 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:'IVbk6mk-S7laRqvFyB6XTQ',sig:'6o5mAOoNiSHxy6FyMh17X2kfB6HMQ0wpp7lyTw0xRes=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1380557694',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Casper Ruud vs Christopher Eubanks<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: first meeting<\/h4>\n<p>Here is another matchup between a very high-level player and one without almost any experience. The only drawback for Ruud here (who <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/02\/13\/casper-ruud-buenos-aires-schwartzman\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">has a title<\/a> already in 2022) is that he prefers clay over hard court; but his win percentage on the surface still outclasses Eubanks\u2019 threefold. I would expect Ruud\u2019s hard-hitting and strong defense to force a lot of errors from Eubanks, especially on his backhand, which is by far the weaker side.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Ruud in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"NmuSx5b-TtVYIIcW9bVAhQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1238454910\" 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:'NmuSx5b-TtVYIIcW9bVAhQ',sig:'EI61qSopZ7Yqib-Tq2croRgnOTInqC59REf65FS3c-o=',w:'594px',h:'407px',items:'1238454910',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Karen Khachanov vs Jenson Brooksby<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: first meeting<\/h4>\n<p>This should be an interesting matchup. Khachanov is well-established in the Top 30 or so, and is one of the most aggressive and hard-hitting players on tour. Brooksby is inexperienced but is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/09\/05\/jenson-brooksby-breakthrough-season-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">rising young stars<\/a>, and he defends very well, with plenty of size and power to handle Khachanov\u2019s pace. Both have reached a final at the 250 level this year, though Brooksby has still been dipping down into Challengers. This one is a toss-up to me. I like Khachanov\u2019s experience, and I like Brooksby\u2019s burgeoning talent. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see this one end in a tiebreak. If Brooksby\u2019s head isn\u2019t taken out of the game, I think he can come away with this.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Brooksby in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the ATP BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells has given us some interesting matches, including a player ranked outside the Top 200 moving on to Round 2. Day 3 matchups bring in the heavy-hitters after their byes, including World #1 Daniil Medvedev. Below we predict the outcomes, including Jannik Sinner vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4072,"featured_media":41545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[2752,2754,811,15415,1843,16701,498,15715,5862,15518,8212,15981,844,15516,4775,15498,2373,2369,11064,16447],"class_list":["post-47621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-atp-indian-wells-predictions","tag-bnp-paribas-open-predictions","tag-casper-ruud","tag-casper-ruud-predictions","tag-christopher-eubanks","tag-christopher-eubanks-predictions","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-daniil-medvedev-predictions","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-jannik-sinner-predictions","tag-jenson-brooksby","tag-jenson-brooksby-predictions","tag-karen-khachanov","tag-karen-khachanov-predictions","tag-laslo-djere","tag-laslo-djere-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tomas-machac","tag-tomas-machac-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47621","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\/4072"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}