{"id":53763,"date":"2023-01-01T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=53763"},"modified":"2023-01-01T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T14:48:26","slug":"united-cup-day-5-predictions-nadal-de-minaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/01\/01\/united-cup-day-5-predictions-nadal-de-minaur\/","title":{"rendered":"United Cup Day 5 Predictions Including Rafael Nadal vs Alex De Minaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 at the United Cup will provide plenty of exciting action, with the field headlined by Rafael Nadal, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/12\/25\/ten-things-to-look-forward-to-in-tennis-2023-rafael-nadal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">all-time Slam title holder<\/a> who got off to a very shaky start of his season with a loss against Cameron Norrie. The Spaniard has a chance to redeem himself and start gearing up for an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a> title defense run against an equally tough and consistent opponent in de Minaur. We also predict the rest of the day&#8217;s matches, split between two articles. One features <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/01\/01\/united-cup-day-5-predictions-tsitsipas-goffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Stefanos Tsitsipas vs David Goffin<\/a> and the other features <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/01\/01\/united-cup-day-5-predictions-fritz-zverev\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Taylor Fritz vs Alexander Zverev<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>United Cup Day 5 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Martina Trevisan vs Marlene Helgo<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Helgo was totally out of her depth in her first match here and there&#8217;s no reason to believe it will be much different now. Trevisan isn&#8217;t exactly a Slam contender, but she&#8217;s a solid, consistent WTA player ranked inside the top 30 and should have more than enough to dispose of a player ranked outside the Top 300 of the world.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Trevisan in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"NIsmMANPSt9eUBSkVYXuJw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1245861937\" target=\"_blank\" 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:'NIsmMANPSt9eUBSkVYXuJw',sig:'b2qZTWKNoBBeLui26lRPAnTjKGr8Bx7Ln98tWuj4lP8=',w:'594px',h:'362px',items:'1245861937',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Lorenzo Musetti vs Viktor Durasovic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Musetti had an excellent end to this 2022 season, making many believe he could become a real contender on all surfaces and not just on clay. It remains to be seen whether 2023 will see a real breakthrough for Musetti, into the top 10 and competing for big titles on a consisent basis, but Durasovuc shouldn&#8217;t be too much of an issue.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Musetti in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ca8rQPJwTfxcFEEaB1hbLw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1453026628\" 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:'ca8rQPJwTfxcFEEaB1hbLw',sig:'OtgR2IvuAy8qKQNA4Lifygt85-2lPz-tSe_-fNMCiy8=',w:'483px',h:'594px',items:'1453026628',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Nuria Parrizas-Diaz vs Zoe Hives<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>More than 700 ranking spots separate the two players and anything other than a relatively straightforward Parrizas-Diaz win here would be a considerable surprise. It&#8217;s one of the biggest mismatches you&#8217;ll see on either tour all year when it comes to ranking.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Parrizas Dias in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"DHcxUNw4R8xvVw0NZsZDeA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1245896110\" 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:'DHcxUNw4R8xvVw0NZsZDeA',sig:'TYLQUqvupT2Y2-AWWlVtuo1ZrDpDoa_tySb_2QiI8LE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1245896110',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Rafael Nadal vs Alex De Minaur<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Nadal 3-0 De Minaur<\/p>\n<p>Nadal started the season with a terrible performance and a loss against Norrie, but you can never, ever write him out. De Minaur has a better chance than he would usually have given the current circumstances, but you definitely expect Nadal to ramp it up here and pull through.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Nadal in 2<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 at the United Cup will provide plenty of exciting action, with the field headlined by Rafael Nadal, the all-time Slam title holder who got off to a very shaky start of his season with a loss against Cameron Norrie. The Spaniard has a chance to redeem himself and start gearing up for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":53376,"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":[564,15552,12813,4657,10332,15491,18458,18459,7253,15697,15196,15442,135,15412,2373,2369,18442,10021,17012,8592,17842],"class_list":["post-53763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alex-de-minaur","tag-alex-de-minaur-predictions","tag-atp-picks","tag-atp-predictions","tag-lorenzo-musetti","tag-lorenzo-musetti-predictions","tag-marlene-hugo","tag-marlene-hugo-predictions","tag-martina-trevisan","tag-martina-trevisan-predictions","tag-nuria-parrizas-diaz","tag-nuria-parrizas-diaz-predictions","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-rafael-nadal-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-united-cup-predictions","tag-viktor-durasovic","tag-viktor-durasovic-predictions","tag-zoe-hives","tag-zoe-hives-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763","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=53763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}