{"id":54588,"date":"2023-02-02T11:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T16:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=54588"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T16:41:35","slug":"davis-cup-predictions-norway-serbia-kecmanovic-durasovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/02\/davis-cup-predictions-norway-serbia-kecmanovic-durasovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup Predictions: Norway vs Serbia Including Miomor Kecmanovic vs Viktor Durasovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no Novak Djokovic competing for Serbia, can Norway pull off this upset in this Davis Cup tie? Whilst the state of Norway\u2019s tennis <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/05\/26\/casper-ruud-holger-rune-bringing-scandinavian-tennis-back-to-the-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">is as good as it\u2019s ever been<\/a> headlined by current world #4 Casper Ruud who is coming off a stunning 2022 with two Grand Slam finals, another final at the ATP Finals, alongside a few titles, it\u2019s unfortunate to see the 24-year-old skip out on this tie against Serbia.<\/p>\n<h2>Davis Cup Predictions: Norway vs Serbia<\/h2>\n<h4>Andreja Petrovic vs Miomir Kecmanovic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: 0-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although it wasn\u2019t sustained for the whole year, there\u2019s no doubt 2022 was a huge step in the right direction for the Serb, breaking the Top 40 for the first time and more than a handful of quarterfinals made. With David Nalbandian leaving the camp it will be interesting to see how the 23-year-old improves from here but one thing for sure is whilst he may lack firepower and weapons, against someone ranked outside of the world\u2019s top 1000 it&#8217;s clear and obvious being his usual solid self will yield a very easy victory here.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kecmanovic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"3-2nCRejRUd8koCEAncosQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1455940786\" 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:'3-2nCRejRUd8koCEAncosQ',sig:'Hf8eRp344mtn35KfuGsZjdE5MNwne1pGLk2QVEvS4jI=',w:'594px',h:'390px',items:'1455940786',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Viktor Durasovic vs Laslo Djere<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: 0-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whilst Durasovic is not ranked outside the top 1000 like his teammate, he\u2019s still just ranked outside the world\u2019s top 350. Likewise, he\u2019s also playing one of the most solid players in the world in Laslo Djere on the other side of the net. The only thing going for the Norweigens in this case is that they\u2019ve chosen a hard court, something where Djere\u2019s results have been lacking compared to clay. If Durasovic can rush the Serb and keep on top of rallies he could make this interesting but it\u2019s a tough ask, a very tough one.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Djere in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Andreja Petrovic vs Laslo Djere<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: 0-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If we somehow even get to the point where we have a final singles match to determine the outcome of the tie it would be a miracle on the Norweigen side of things. Saying that, the Serbian Djere has a history of getting tight and choking when it matters but against the world #1265 who has no real weapons? We all know the outcome of this match let alone this whole tie.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Djere in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Uyv0eqR-ROpkMHqo7TRYNw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1455938057\" 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:'Uyv0eqR-ROpkMHqo7TRYNw',sig:'F2XScbtkyxJWP5Y4aU1ESCzygsYHT-7ZuB2iGF9gQYk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1455938057',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Viktor Durasovic vs Miomor Kecmanovic<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: 0-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the matchups reversed for the second batch of singles matches, there isn\u2019t much hope for Norway left with the tie potentially even over at this point. If it isn\u2019t however, it\u2019s more of the same yet again. Without a doubt Durasovic will provide a much stiffer test for Kecmanovic but it\u2019s hard to see him being heavily pushed let alone losing regardless of the crowd and performance he puts in.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Kecmanovic in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no Novak Djokovic competing for Serbia, can Norway pull off this upset in this Davis Cup tie? Whilst the state of Norway\u2019s tennis is as good as it\u2019s ever been headlined by current world #4 Casper Ruud who is coming off a stunning 2022 with two Grand Slam finals, another final at the ATP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":52964,"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":[182,9538,4775,15498,4359,15507,2373,2369,10021,17012],"class_list":["post-54588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-davis-cup","tag-davis-cup-predictions","tag-laslo-djere","tag-laslo-djere-predictions","tag-miomir-kecmanovic","tag-miomir-kecmanovic-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-viktor-durasovic","tag-viktor-durasovic-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588","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\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}