{"id":47943,"date":"2022-03-22T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=47943"},"modified":"2022-03-22T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:22:42","slug":"atp-miami-day-1-predictions-simon-draper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/03\/22\/atp-miami-day-1-predictions-simon-draper\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Miami Day 1 Predictions Including Emil Ruusuvuori vs Maxime Cressy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Miami will see plenty of exciting action, with some very tight and high quality matches to be expected, with a great mix of young and veteran talent. We predict every match on the day. With 16 matches, we split them between four articles. The other three articles feature <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/03\/22\/atp-miami-open-day-1-predictions-nakashima-kwon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Brandon Nakashima vs Soonwoo Kwon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/03\/22\/atp-miami-day-1-predictions-gasquet-kokkinakis\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Richard Gasquet vs Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/03\/22\/atp-miami-open-day-1-predictions-kyrgios-mannarino\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Nick Kyrgios vs Adrian Mannarino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Miami Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Gilles Simon vs Jack Draper<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>The two players are in very different stages of their careers: Simon is on a seemingly unstoppable downward spiral, heading towards retirement, while Draper has been on the rise and has been absolutely on fire this year so far on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/atp-challenger-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Challenger circuit<\/a>. Draper definitely goes into this match as the favorite although Simon can never be fully discounted with his vast experience at this level.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Draper in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nlCjGS5nSVNiAoKgZjjJdQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1324258225\" 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:'nlCjGS5nSVNiAoKgZjjJdQ',sig:'SCIAIWom_0VooIGLrQ9TdQjiNnJUfnZ0BIRwA8qalFY=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1324258225',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Daniel Elahi Galan Riveros vs John Millman<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Galan Riveros did great to qualify for the main draw, but on this surface he&#8217;s clearly outmatched by Millman, who&#8217;s been in very decent form so far this year and is always a very tough nut to crack with his incredible fitness and defensive ability.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Millman in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"85yjmcLORj9YBpPqLNtPRw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1384970098\" 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:'85yjmcLORj9YBpPqLNtPRw',sig:'shkrUMyogrz1T-KPs4rBfRgbqPeov2XsKyn3ab0hsoQ=',w:'594px',h:'425px',items:'1384970098',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Emilio Nava vs Hugo Gaston<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Gaston 1-0 Nava<\/p>\n<p>This is a battle between two young players who&#8217;ve been struggling a lot to put together results. Gaston might be much higher ranked but he has a lot of trouble performing outside France: he&#8217;s had promising runs at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Roland Garros<\/a> and the Paris Masters but never really built on it. He still goes into this match as a slight favorite, but it&#8217;s almost 50-50 and could genuinely go either way.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Gaston in 3<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"pFaOKVfwQnNYb_w0ueQwfA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1366152609\" 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:'pFaOKVfwQnNYb_w0ueQwfA',sig:'hoMQHW1VroMDiIJ9BFgClreoAQRdRZ_d9RxkYaSjLNg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1366152609',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Maxime Cressy vs Emil Ruusuvuori<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: Ruusuvuori 1-0 Cressy<\/p>\n<p>Cressy has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/01\/23\/maxime-cressy-australian-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">had an incredible start<\/a> to the season but lost gas after the Australian Open and hasn&#8217;t won a match since. Ruusuvuori also lost some gas after a great run to the final in Pune. It&#8217;ll be a battle of young players struggling and desperate to get back on track. On this very slow service, Ruusuvuori&#8217;s superior consistency from the baseline gives him the edge.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Ruusuvuori in 2<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Miami will see plenty of exciting action, with some very tight and high quality matches to be expected, with a great mix of young and veteran talent. We predict every match on the day. With 16 matches, we split them between four articles. The other three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":36588,"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":[5197,5388,15600,8884,15511,8657,16705,1467,15480,10391,15985,11131,16044,1859,15452,9894,16325,5106,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-47943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-atp-miami-predictions","tag-daniel-elahi-galan","tag-daniel-elahi-galan-predictions","tag-emil-ruusuvuori","tag-emil-ruusuvuori-predictions","tag-emilio-nava","tag-emilio-nava-predictions","tag-gilles-simon","tag-gilles-simon-predictions","tag-hugo-gaston","tag-hugo-gaston-predictions","tag-jack-draper","tag-jack-draper-predictions","tag-john-millman","tag-john-millman-predictions","tag-maxime-cressy","tag-maxime-cressy-predictions","tag-miami-open-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47943","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\/1742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47943\/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=47943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}