{"id":53703,"date":"2022-12-29T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=53703"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:19:33","slug":"united-cup-day-2-predictions-wawrinka-bublik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/12\/29\/united-cup-day-2-predictions-wawrinka-bublik\/","title":{"rendered":"United Cup Day 2 Predictions Including Stan Wawrinka vs Alexander Bublik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 at the United Cup will feature some very exciting matches, both ATP and WTA, including three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka representing Switzerland. The tournament might not feature the world&#8217;s very top players, but it still promises plenty of excitement. We also predict the rest of the day&#8217;s matches, split between two other articles. One features <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/12\/29\/united-cup-day-2-predictions-sakkari-tomova\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Maria Sakkari vs Viktoriya Tomova<\/a> and the second features <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/12\/29\/united-cup-day-2-predictions-pegula-kvitova\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jessica Pegula vs Petra Kvitova<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>United Cup Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Adrian Mannarino vs Federico Coria<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Mannarino is already a veteran of the circuit at this point but he&#8217;s still playing at a very good top 50 level and on a hard court he should still have a clear over Coria, who&#8217;s never achieved any relevant results on this surface and relies on clay to maintain his top 100 ranking.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Mannarino in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"GNg0B8tXQXxy29rbSipOXQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244414028\" 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:'GNg0B8tXQXxy29rbSipOXQ',sig:'HwsQmQDzjkrlMrAZoV5NChxqPt7R1nVgh448mKBxz0E=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1244414028',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Caroline Garcia vs Nadia Podoroska<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Garcia 1-0<br \/>\nGarcia had <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/09\/01\/never-underestimate-caroline-garcia-on-a-hot-streak\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a stellar end of 2022<\/a> and is a very clear favorite here against an opponent ranked #195. The world #4 reached the semifinals at the US Open and then went on to win the WTA finals to end the best season of her career in a blaze of glory. She&#8217;ll be hoping to have an even better 2023 and fulfill all the potential she has been deemed to have since she was young and up-and-coming.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Garcia in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"TqQhu6OqSglC9haW4oktkQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1451128357\" 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:'TqQhu6OqSglC9haW4oktkQ',sig:'zwPD6VvHs6eVx991Ad59e7sOJJ790gil5upmL6NhdsY=',w:'594px',h:'413px',items:'1451128357',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Jil Teichmann vs Zhibek Kulambayeva<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<br \/>\nOn paper, this match should have very little history. Kulambayeva is ranked outside the Top 700 and should pose little to no threat against a Top 40 player in Teichmann, who should be able to score an easy win for Switzerland here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Teichmann in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"WtrbLT1oQ35BuKUKcMja1g\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242439898\" 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:'WtrbLT1oQ35BuKUKcMja1g',sig:'iabQMNGz7b_KdEMzTvDddYDCVp9SghK-P4zE7Lp8-54=',w:'594px',h:'415px',items:'1242439898',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Stan Wawrinka vs Alexander Bublik<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Bublik 2-0 Wawrinka<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/03\/03\/alexander-bublik-underrated-maverick\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Bublik<\/a> does lead 2-0 in the head-to-head, but one of those wins was a very tight three set match on clay in Monte Carlo and the other in a match where Wawrinka was forced to withdraw due to injury after only three games. There&#8217;s every reason to believe this will a very tight encounter, very difficult to call. Wawrinka surely has a great chance to score a first victory in this matchup.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Wawrinka in 3<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 at the United Cup will feature some very exciting matches, both ATP and WTA, including three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka representing Switzerland. The tournament might not feature the world&#8217;s very top players, but it still promises plenty of excitement. We also predict the rest of the day&#8217;s matches, split between two other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":21037,"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":[1877,15551,510,15492,12813,4657,406,15745,10642,15458,4537,16613,11607,15748,115,17532,2373,2369,18442,16861,16862],"class_list":["post-53703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-adrian-mannarino","tag-adrian-mannarino-predictions","tag-alexander-bublik","tag-alexander-bublik-predictions","tag-atp-picks","tag-atp-predictions","tag-caroline-garcia","tag-caroline-garcia-predictions","tag-federico-coria","tag-federico-coria-predictions","tag-jil-teichmann","tag-jill-teichmann-predictions","tag-nadia-podoroska","tag-nadia-podoroska-predictions","tag-stan-wawrinka","tag-stan-wawrinka-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-united-cup-predictions","tag-zhibek-kulambayeva","tag-zhibek-kulambayeva-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53703","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=53703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}