{"id":62592,"date":"2024-01-07T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T18:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=62592"},"modified":"2024-01-09T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:25:50","slug":"atp-auckland-day-1-predictions-monfils-marozsan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/01\/07\/atp-auckland-day-1-predictions-monfils-marozsan\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Auckland Day 1 Predictions Including Gael Monfils vs Fabian Marozsan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland is one of the final ATP stops before the big one starts in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Melbourne<\/a> next week. A few players will be up against one another for the first time, including tour-stalwart Gael Monfils&#8217; first round against big-hitter, Fabian Marozsan. As always at LWOT, we&#8217;ve tried to predict a few of these first rounds here in Auckland. We also look at the rest of the matches <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/01\/07\/wta-hobart-international-day-1-predictions-mertens-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">in a separate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Auckland Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>JJ Wolf vs Luca Van Assche<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Wolf 1-0 Van Assche<\/h4>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to say how well JJ Wolf will play from one day to the next. When he&#8217;s hot, he&#8217;s untouchable but there are days he comes out looking a little sluggish.<\/p>\n<p>Luca Van Assche is turning into a great addition to the ATP but his game is still at an early enough stage that he is a whisker underpowered on a hard court. It&#8217;s the start of the year so we&#8217;d expect Wolf to be flashy enough to see his opponent off the court.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Wolf in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Benjamin Bonzi vs Alexandre Muller<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Bonzi 1-0 Muller<\/h4>\n<p>A great run to the Marrakech final saw Alexandre Muller join the top 100 but his stay here potentially looks short-lived. He&#8217;s won just one of his last eight matches on hard-court with one of those losses coming to Benjamin Bonzi.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming Bonzi is now fighting fit after a difficult year of injury, he has enough talent to take advantage of Muller&#8217;s slight passiveness on this surface.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Bonzi in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"tps7arjPQ0tlpRsr3LqQMw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1891161966\" 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:'tps7arjPQ0tlpRsr3LqQMw',sig:'ZpMrV2zFIPFcUZ0Xm8TyELyDX1hbeu9fH3JNf-ZItiE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1891161966',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Aleksandar Vukic vs Taro Daniel<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: Daniel 1-0 Vukic<\/h4>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much between Taro Daniel and Aleksandar Vukic. Both players are decent servers on a hard court with some decent results to boast about from last year. Daniel is coming into 2024 immediately off the back of three great Challenger runs, however. It&#8217;s a bit of a coin toss but the American&#8217;s supposed confidence gives him a slight edge here.<br \/>\nPrediction: <em>Daniel in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"HhAFmVmkSuVjuKld4eomNw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1775584774\" 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:'HhAFmVmkSuVjuKld4eomNw',sig:'InhQUmuwP04zDhCj9aEEWdClVVVK_FSYCrefJP5okrY=',w:'594px',h:'442px',items:'1775584774',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Gael Monfils vs Fabian Marozsan<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>By all accounts, Gael Monfils had a stellar season last year. He won a title and he took plenty of big names along the way, including De Minaur, Tsitsipas, Norrie, Mannarino, Bublik, and Djere. He could be a bit of a dark horse at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a> provided he&#8217;s in full health.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see after this match. The match up isn&#8217;t great&#8211;Fabian Marozsan would perhaps prefer to play somebody a touch more predictable to give his own unpredictable aggression a chance. We&#8217;ll still give the explosive Hungarian a set but Monfils should take this one if he&#8217;s in the form we expect him to be in.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Monfils in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland is one of the final ATP stops before the big one starts in\u00a0Melbourne next week. A few players will be up against one another for the first time, including tour-stalwart Gael Monfils&#8217; first round against big-hitter, Fabian Marozsan. As always at LWOT, we&#8217;ve tried to predict a few of these first rounds here in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":57078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[12603,16061,13556,16824,4169,10889,15823,18097,18800,144,15824,9832,16903,16712,18325,985,15580,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-62592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-aleksandar-vukic","tag-aleksandar-vukic-predictions","tag-alexandre-muller","tag-alexandre-muller-predictions","tag-atp-auckland-predictions","tag-benjamin-bonzi","tag-benjamin-bonzi-predictions","tag-fabian-marozsan","tag-fabian-marozsan-predictions","tag-gael-monfils","tag-gael-monfils-predictions","tag-jj-wolf","tag-jj-wolf-predictions","tag-luca-van-assche","tag-luca-van-assche-predictions","tag-taro-daniel","tag-taro-daniel-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62592","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=62592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}