{"id":54703,"date":"2023-02-06T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T23:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=54703"},"modified":"2023-02-06T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T01:41:31","slug":"atp-montpellier-day-2-predictions-krajinovic-karatsev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/06\/atp-montpellier-day-2-predictions-krajinovic-karatsev\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Montpellier Day 2 Predictions Including Filip Krajinovic vs Aslan Karatsev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 at the ATP event in Montpellier will feature plenty of exciting action, with several matches that promise to be high quality and extremely competitive. World #9 Holger Rune is the #1 seed, but aside from him and Sinner there&#8217;s a lack of top players in this tournament, which will surely lead several lower ranked players to believe that they can have a deep run and even win the title here. We also predict the rest of the day&#8217;s matches in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/02\/06\/atp-montpellier-day-2-predictions-bonzi-sonego\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">separate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Montpellier Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Maxime Cressy vs Antoine Bellier<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Neither player has been having a good season, but Cressy seems to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/09\/01\/maxime-cressy-the-craziest-player-youve-never-heard-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">clearly have the bigger upside<\/a> of the two and his huge <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/09\/02\/can-you-win-a-major-playing-like-maxime-cressy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">serve and volleying ability<\/a> always makes him a huge threat on these indoor surfaces. Bellier made it through the qualifying playing some pretty good tennis, but it&#8217;s unlikely that he can withstand the barrage of Cressy serve bombs. The American should be able to pull through here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Cressy in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"hvlF1zFFQQhe6skv-yrpYQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1457609206\" 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:'hvlF1zFFQQhe6skv-yrpYQ',sig:'a3kQ7-DD-YohoSmAYDAKXzO7cjQHcJZ5XNTClrZ7_B8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1457609206',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Luca Nardi vs Arthur Rinderknech<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Both players have struggled a lot so far this year: Nardi came into Montpellier on the back of five consecutive losses before making it through qualifying; Rinderknech lost all of his last three matches, including a straight set defeat at the Australian Open in a match he was favored to win. Both players will be looking to get their season back on track with a win here and home advantage might just be the edge Rinderknech needs to pull through.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Rinderknech in 3<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Cqu0PFweTh1OydYlTkd0Jg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1453775494\" 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:'Cqu0PFweTh1OydYlTkd0Jg',sig:'GKoa38DpDWZNcjwdaXPdQv9yK9EAb6cXBi3WmhQ2Y6I=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1453775494',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Filip Krajinovic vs Aslan Karatsev<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Both players are very far from their best level and will be looking to get back up the rankings this season. It&#8217;s a very tough match to call as both players have similar levels and both have been struggling in recent times. Krajinovic might have the slightest of edges here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Krajinovic in 3<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 at the ATP event in Montpellier will feature plenty of exciting action, with several matches that promise to be high quality and extremely competitive. World #9 Holger Rune is the #1 seed, but aside from him and Sinner there&#8217;s a lack of top players in this tournament, which will surely lead several lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":46204,"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":[17539,17824,10566,15504,9895,15582,4596,12813,4657,2203,15455,12925,17616,9894,16325,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-54703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-antoine-bellier","tag-antoine-bellier-predictions","tag-arthur-rinderknech","tag-arthur-rinderknech-predictions","tag-aslan-karatsev","tag-aslan-karatsev-predictions","tag-atp-montpellier-predictions","tag-atp-picks","tag-atp-predictions","tag-filip-krajinovic","tag-filip-krajinovic-predictions","tag-luca-nardi","tag-luca-nardi-predictions","tag-maxime-cressy","tag-maxime-cressy-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54703","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=54703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}