{"id":55795,"date":"2023-03-27T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=55795"},"modified":"2023-03-27T19:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:29:26","slug":"atp-miami-day-7-predictions-sinner-rublev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/03\/27\/atp-miami-day-7-predictions-sinner-rublev\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Miami Day 7 Predictions Including Jannik Sinner vs Andrey Rublev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about a day&#8217;s play in Miami. Lucky fans at the Hard Rock Stadium will get the chance to see a first meeting between Taylor Fritz and Holger Rune, a revenge match between Carlos Alcaraz and Tommy Paul and a bludgeoning affair between Jannik Sinner and Andrey Rublev. The round of 16 is dripping with quality&#8211;can we successfully predict the outcomes of these tantalizing matches in the top half of the draw?<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Miami Day 7 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Botic Van De Zandschulp vs Emil Ruusuvuori<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: 1-1<\/h4>\n<p>Probably the lowest profile match of the day still promises to be an interesting one. Both players can be a little up and down, the convoluted serve of Botic Van De Zandschulp prone to breaking down and the soaring highs of Emil Ruusuvuori met with the odd low.<\/p>\n<p>The ceiling of the Finn however is a sight to behold. There is so much potential for him to go far in this game&#8211;it&#8217;s a question of whether or not he&#8217;s ready for the next step. This is the best chance he&#8217;s had so far in his career to go deep at a big tournament. We think he&#8217;s got what it takes to take that opportunity by the scruff of the neck.<br \/>\nPrediction:<em> Ruusuvuori in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"YmZpl9GwSo1DErvAUiiVsA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1473107211\" 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:'YmZpl9GwSo1DErvAUiiVsA',sig:'CW7wJSWXm1QZ_De8D0OhfMP6O9bEqarVOX8MI9a2HmE=',w:'594px',h:'391px',items:'1473107211',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Carlos Alcaraz vs Tommy Paul<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Paul 1-0 Alcaraz<\/h4>\n<p>This is about the best match-up fans could have asked for against Carlos Alcaraz at this stage of the tournament. Tommy Paul punished Alcaraz&#8217;s second-serve fantastically well in Canada, he net rushed the Spaniard better than anybody else and his forehand actually held up well to draw unforced errors where others hadn&#8217;t been as patient. Paul has something <em>different<\/em> in his arsenal and that&#8217;s about the only hope in hell any player has of defeating the world #1 at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Even still, in that Canada match Alcaraz held a match point. The forehand was loose but he&#8217;s lessening those errors with each passing week, adding patience to his game to go offensive on the correct balls. Alcaraz has grown since their previous meeting&#8211;some tactics will still work against him but there&#8217;s still a fairly vast chasm in power between the two players. We&#8217;ve got to go with the odds.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Alcaraz in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"P_NSF-ZcRp5fxlhJpxYldw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1476832282\" 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:'P_NSF-ZcRp5fxlhJpxYldw',sig:'6PJrQCR93_epmgoe5I5zCsruTK1M02Oh9MTvK1VTYdA=',w:'594px',h:'404px',items:'1476832282',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Taylor Fritz vs Holger Rune<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>This is an extremely enticing match-up between Taylor Fritz and Holger Rune. With no history to go on, we need to look at how the two player&#8217;s games match-up.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz is always in with a chance against any opponent. His booming serve carries him in any conditions and he has explosive groundstrokes, even off the backhand wing where he can generate some offence.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a consistent weapon however and Rune will be more than willing to exploit that in a cross-court backhand exchange if Fritz shows any weakness. Other tactical plays of Rune&#8217;s might also work&#8211;drop shots could draw Fritz uncomfortably forward and Rune is able to close down the net very competently if he needs another means of finishing the point.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly though, the conditions in Miami mean it could easily be won and lost from both player&#8217;s first-serves and Rune isn&#8217;t playing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/12\/16\/holger-rune-breakout-2022-season-in-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">quite as mercilessly<\/a> as he did in Paris (on serve and mid-rally) so we&#8217;ll back the American in three.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Fritz in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"sgT_izjDTL9esdo5bCLUgg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1476791661\" 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:'sgT_izjDTL9esdo5bCLUgg',sig:'Qnr4-FHCJDymB3UYnPv1jRRdpQpEfzU13F4hTNRgN00=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1476791661',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Jannik Sinner vs Andrey Rublev<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: 2-2<\/h4>\n<p>Hold on to your hats, spectators. This is the fifth meeting between the two huge hitters and they&#8217;ve split the head-to-head down the middle. Interestingly though, it&#8217;s hard to rate the two wins for Andrey Rublev given they both came from Jannik Sinner mid-match retirements.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner&#8217;s wins were more telling of how this rivalry might go in the future. Though Rublev&#8217;s first-serve is a little better, the Russian tends to lose the backhand cross-court exchanges and his extremely powerful forehand can be absorbed very soundly off both of the Italian&#8217;s wings. To boot, there seems to be a bit of an edge lost to Rublev&#8217;s game recently too.<br \/>\nPrediction: <em>Sinner in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about a day&#8217;s play in Miami. Lucky fans at the Hard Rock Stadium will get the chance to see a first meeting between Taylor Fritz and Holger Rune, a revenge match between Carlos Alcaraz and Tommy Paul and a bludgeoning affair between Jannik Sinner and Andrey Rublev. The round of 16 is dripping with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":55135,"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":[511,15413,5197,9553,15938,5729,15513,8884,15511,7605,16281,5862,15518,5106,347,15712,2373,2369,1635,15665],"class_list":["post-55795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-andrey-rublev","tag-andrey-rublev-predictions","tag-atp-miami-predictions","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp-predictions","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-carlos-alcaraz-predictions","tag-emil-ruusuvuori","tag-emil-ruusuvuori-predictions","tag-holger-rune","tag-holger-rune-predictions","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-jannik-sinner-predictions","tag-miami-open-predictions","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-taylor-fritz-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tommy-paul","tag-tommy-paul-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55795","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\/3704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}