The 2023 Atlanta Open has provided its fans with terrific tennis all week. Now that the weekend has arrived, we are down to four semifinalists; all two wins away from raising this 250-level crown. No. 1 seed Taylor Fritz takes on No. 8 seed J.J. Wolf in an all-American semifinal bout. The evening semifinal with take place between No. 7 seed Ugo Humbert and Aleksandar Vukic. We at LWOT have the preview and prediction for both ATP Atlanta semifinal matchups. But who will advance to Sunday’s final?<\/p>\n
Head-to-Head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n No. 7 seed Ugo Humbert takes on Aleksandar Vukic with a spot in the Atlanta Open final on the line. Humbert played a terrific match to best Alex de Minaur 7-6 6-3 in the quarters. He has won five of his last six matches. Vukic is coming off wins over No. 4 seed Yoshihito Nishioka and No. 5 seed Christopher Eubanks. The 27-year-old Aussie holds a career-high ranking of world No. 74 and is one win away from his first ATP final appearance. Vukic has a solid baseline game off both wings but does not have a weapon that will trouble the Frenchman. Humbert’s form should lead him to a straight-set victory.<\/p>\n Prediction: Humbert in 2<\/em><\/p>\n Head-to-Head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n Americans Taylor Fritz and J.J. Wolf will square off with a spot in the Atlanta Open final on the line. This will be their first meeting despite only a 14-month age difference. Neither player has dropped a set en route to this semifinal encounter, setting up the Atlanta fans for a high-level bout. If Fritz can serve as he did in his previous two matches (17 aces, 0 double faults), he will be nearly impossible to beat. That said, Wolf is strong on return and should force the No. 1 seed to win his fair share of baseline exchanges. I see Wolf pushing Fritz, but Fritz’s power and first-strike tennis will prove to be too much in the end,<\/p>\n Prediction: Fritz in 3<\/em><\/p>\n Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey – USA Today<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2023 Atlanta Open has provided its fans with terrific tennis all week. Now that the weekend has arrived, we are down to four semifinalists; all two wins away from raising this 250-level crown. No. 1 seed Taylor Fritz takes on No. 8 seed J.J. Wolf in an all-American semifinal bout. The evening semifinal with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4067,"featured_media":54961,"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":[12603,16061,1628,7434,10330,16383,347,15712,2373,2369,3638,15614],"class_list":["post-58328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-aleksandar-vukic","tag-aleksandar-vukic-predictions","tag-atp-atlanta","tag-atp-atlanta-predictions","tag-j-j-wolf","tag-j-j-wolf-predictions","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-taylor-fritz-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-ugo-humbert","tag-ugo-humbert-predictions"],"modified_by":"Shane Black","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58328","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\/4067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Taylor Fritz vs J.J. Wolf<\/h4>\n