{"id":52531,"date":"2022-09-27T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=52531"},"modified":"2022-09-27T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T00:36:12","slug":"atp-sofia-day-3-predictions-verdasco-vs-basilashvili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/09\/27\/atp-sofia-day-3-predictions-verdasco-vs-basilashvili\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Sofia Day 3 Predictions Including Fernando Verdasco vs Nikoloz Basilashvili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Fernando Verdasco takes to the courts of ATP Sofia on day 3 of the tournament in Bulgaria. We have predictions for every day 3 match including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/09\/27\/atp-sofia-day-3-predictions-dimitrov-ivashka\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Grigor Dimitrov vs Ilya Ivashka.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Marc-Andrea Huesler vs Geoffrey Blancaneaux<\/h3>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242742794\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1242742794?et=9eP_resjSMVSgiVkbpzT8Q&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=RKdHj_vvjnzX-fx8ZEAJ_jHL5kiH2MEbpRpqwuGTH-c=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Frenchman Blancaneaux won their only meeting. He won two rounds of qualifying to set himself for an opportunity for a first ever ATP main draw match win. At a career high ranking of #139, things are going well for Blancaneaux right now, having put together a 19-18 ATP Challenger Tour record on the season.\u00a0 Switzerland&#8217;s Huesler also just reached a career high ranking of #85 last month. His 5 ATP main draw wins this season make up nearly half of his career total. He&#8217;s also 21-11 on the ATP Challenger Tour with a pair of titles. He recently reached the semis in Winston-Salem. With both players in form, this should be a good match, Huesler seems to have more upside to his game. <strong>Huesler in 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Fernando Verdasco vs Nikoloz Basilashvili<\/h3>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1425975637\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 72.39057% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1425975637?et=uYjVcqpsTXh4bTjcuYhHfg&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=gqFKCRQ9_nAeg-b2Eu1HjoCTfX2D9b-bc3LWlik0CL0=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Verdasco has won two of their three meetings, both players have struggled this season with Verdasco 4-11 at tour level, and Basilashvili 14-27. Verdsaco hasn&#8217;t had a winning record on tour in four years and things are winding down on his career. Basilashvili is still a top 50 player and on indoor hard courts is good enough to level the h2h and reach the next round. <strong>Basilashvili in 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Alexandar Lazarov vs Lorenzo Musetti<\/h3>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1423649519\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1423649519?et=yBzyymFiS_hwvWDPPi-uxw&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=yLwqtTnW84DLp1J2F3y9fMScpxiDVwqUUw_qjOF6sIQ=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The home player Lazarov won his opening match, this is the first time ever he&#8217;s had multiple tour level wins in a season. His career has thus far been largely confined to the ITF Futures Circuit and the occasional ATP Challenger match. Musetti&#8217;s 22 ATP level wins this year is a career best, the Italian reached the third round at the US Open and should be counted on to make quick work of a lower tier player like Lazarov, even if the Bulgarian is highly motivated. <strong>Musetti in 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1394022268\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.66667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1394022268?et=MagO4XcuRwBGAEcacLqGSw&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=5D4AbrSYLML3DQ9d1I5ykBcRHFVFntemHMPHxpP1kuI=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Fernando Verdasco takes to the courts of ATP Sofia on day 3 of the tournament in Bulgaria. We have predictions for every day 3 match including\u00a0Grigor Dimitrov vs Ilya Ivashka. Marc-Andrea Huesler vs Geoffrey Blancaneaux Embed from Getty Images The Frenchman Blancaneaux won their only meeting. He won two rounds of qualifying to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":52532,"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":[69,3],"tags":[18218,18219,12813,4657,4602,4608,352,15609,11410,17713,10332,15491,7450,16340,3515,15613,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-52531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-atp","tag-alexandar-lazarov","tag-alexandar-lazarov-predictions","tag-atp-picks","tag-atp-predictions","tag-atp-sofia","tag-atp-sofia-predictions","tag-fernando-verdasco","tag-fernando-verdasco-predictions","tag-geoffrey-blancaneaux","tag-geoffrey-blancaneaux-predictions","tag-lorenzo-musetti","tag-lorenzo-musetti-predictions","tag-marc-andrea-huesler","tag-marc-andrea-huesler-predictions","tag-nikoloz-basilashvili","tag-nikoloz-basilashvili-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52531","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\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}