{"id":57240,"date":"2023-06-12T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=57240"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:04:47","slug":"atp-hertogenbosch-day-2-predictions-mannarino-fils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/06\/12\/atp-hertogenbosch-day-2-predictions-mannarino-fils\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Den Bosch Day 2 Predictions Including Adrian Mannarino vs Arthur Fils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open<\/a> is over and, as quick as a flash, the ATP has moved from the grinding play of the clay season to the lighting fast serve-centric grass courts of Den Bosch. On the second day of play at the men&#8217;s event in s&#8217;Hertogenbosch, we have plenty of ATP stars in contention that have been deprived a tour-level match for a while, including Tallon Griekspoor&#8217;s match with Mikael Ymer and up-and-comer Arthur Fils&#8217; match with compatriot Adrian Mannarino. As always at LWOT, we&#8217;ve looked to predict these matches and others&#8211;in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/06\/12\/atp-hertogenbosch-day-2-predictions-bublik-goffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">a separate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Hertogenbosch Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Arthur Rinderknech vs Alexei Popyrin<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Rinderknech 1-0 Popyrin<\/h4>\n<p>Though he&#8217;s lost a lot of his matches this year, Arthur Rinderknech rarely gives his opponent an easy ride, especially on a faster surface. He&#8217;s more than comfortable getting to the net and has a lively serve that should be very difficult to return on grass.<\/p>\n<p>Alexei Popyrin has repeatedly been knocking on the door of a top 50 breakthrough, however. He has had so many close losses recently, odds are he&#8217;s going to win some of them at some point. Still, it&#8217;ll probably be close but we&#8217;re slightly more confident in the game style of the Frenchman on this surface.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Rinderknech in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"5PJARJsSSv1aOKqsrpcVDg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1495186280\" 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:'5PJARJsSSv1aOKqsrpcVDg',sig:'PMl8THg6JXzWYgw1RCnQtz1u4Xy1y8nSI9XY-EzyxKc=',w:'594px',h:'394px',items:'1495186280',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Mackenzie McDonald vs Ilya Ivashka<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Ivashka 3-2 McDonald<\/h4>\n<p>Given his glory at the start of the year <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/01\/18\/mackenzie-mcdonald-rafael-nadal-australian-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">against Rafael Nadal,<\/a> Mackenzie McDonald has gone through a surprising rough spell of seven losses in a row. He does like his tennis a bit faster and should feel pretty comfortable in these conditions but he did kick off his grass season with a straight-sets loss to Jordan Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Ivashka actually defeated McDonald at this very same event last year in three sets. Ivashka&#8217;s game is potent, especially when the pressure is off so we don&#8217;t see any reason why the same result won&#8217;t be repeated, given their respective forms.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Ivashka in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[cta id=445 type=cta]<\/p>\n<h4>Tallon Griekspoor vs Mikael Ymer<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Griekspoor 1-0 Ymer<\/h4>\n<p>Mikael Ymer is one of the most athletic players on tour. That athleticism can be stifled, however, on a faster surface where his grinding abilities are less effective. Still, grass is always going to be a game of fine margins and his relentlessness could get in the head of Tallon Griekspoor.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman is probably best suited to conditions where he gets a little more time on his forehand. Overall though, we can&#8217;t help backing Griekspoor&#8217;s powerful game which likely trumps Ymer&#8217;s in most situations.<br \/>\nPrediction: <em>Griekspoor in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"B98op-r9SrFmjKfd7V8NjQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1258334815\" 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:'B98op-r9SrFmjKfd7V8NjQ',sig:'n1obpp_3hfLcSuf9oSza4FKlUcS0SJBJoeHXXQY5gHg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1258334815',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Arthur Fils vs Adrian Mannarino<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>There are few players on the ATP Tour with as poor a record on clay as Adrian Mannarino. He loves to get under his opponent&#8217;s skin by playing extremely low-trajectory lefty balls that skid through the court and, on clay, these shots sit higher than he would like. The Frenchman will be drawing a sigh of relief moving to grass where his shots are tailor-made for him to be as much of a nuisance as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Fils is young and explosive but, prior to this tournament, he&#8217;d never played a professional match on grass. He&#8217;s come through qualifying fairly comfortably but his two opponents have been struggling with injury recently. We expect the veteran Frenchman to masterfully pick apart his younger compatriot.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Mannarino in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Open is over and, as quick as a flash, the ATP has moved from the grinding play of the clay season to the lighting fast serve-centric grass courts of Den Bosch. On the second day of play at the men&#8217;s event in s&#8217;Hertogenbosch, we have plenty of ATP stars in contention that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":57251,"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":[69,3],"tags":[1877,15551,3970,15508,18371,18372,10566,15504,6458,7213,15558,6537,2400,15602,6206,15825,4692,15489,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-57240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","category-atp","tag-adrian-mannarino","tag-adrian-mannarino-predictions","tag-alexei-popyrin","tag-alexei-popyrin-predictions","tag-arthur-fils","tag-arthur-fils-predictions","tag-arthur-rinderknech","tag-arthur-rinderknech-predictions","tag-atp-den-bosch-predictions","tag-ilya-ivashka","tag-ilya-ivashka-predictions","tag-libema-open-predictions","tag-mackenzie-mcdonald","tag-mackenzie-mcdonald-predictions","tag-mikael-ymer","tag-mikael-ymer-predictions","tag-tallon-griekspoor","tag-tallon-griekspoor-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57240","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=57240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}