{"id":62672,"date":"2024-01-09T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=62672"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T14:50:16","slug":"atp-auckland-day-3-predictions-auger-aliassime-altmaier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/01\/09\/atp-auckland-day-3-predictions-auger-aliassime-altmaier\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Auckland Day 3 Predictions Including Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Daniel Altmaier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst the best of the rest play in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a> qualifying, we have some stacked ATP 250 events to enjoy, in Auckland and Adelaide. Today, we&#8217;re making predictions from the event in Auckland where Ben Shelton, Felix Auger-Aliassime, and Botic van de Zandschulp are all in action. We also predict the rest of the day&#8217;s matches in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/01\/09\/atp-auckland-day-3-predictions-norrie-van-assche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">separate article<\/a>. Who will win?<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Auckland Day 3 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Ben Shelton vs Fabian Marozsan<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>We believe Ben Shelton <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/09\/06\/rise-ben-shelton-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">will eventually be the real deal<\/a> but, for now, he doesn&#8217;t have the whole package. He&#8217;s second-last in the top 50 on return points won and his first couple of matches of the season showed why, failing to break serve against Safiullin in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Though Shelton still comes into this as the slight favourite, one lights out game and a tiebreak from Fabian Marozsan could be all it takes for the Hungarian to win the match. We&#8217;re tempted to back Marozsan before Shelton fires up for the big stage in Melbourne.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Marozsan in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Botic Van De Zandschulp vs Alejandro Tabilo<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>This looks like an easy choice on paper but a quick look at the pair&#8217;s recent history makes the pick a little harder. Botic Van De Zandschulp had a difficult year after losing four match points in the final of Munich, losing other matches in tight situations, whilst Alejandro Tabilo is currently on a nine-match winning streak on hard courts.<\/p>\n<p>Tabilo is more likely to be confident in his booming lefty service games than Van De Zandschulp. The Dutchman is a higher quality player but, if it gets tight, his serve may let him down.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Tabilo in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"JXw5cic_RopcuZnX1Z5LAw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1684758937\" 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:'JXw5cic_RopcuZnX1Z5LAw',sig:'pZcQWTPEDL2wYEhNiz-hKlDjrb-KRNzavdRzGKUBQCE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1684758937',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Roberto Carballes Baena vs Sebastian Ofner<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>Sebastian Ofner is a player on the rise. He picked up where he left off in 2024 and put together three extremely solid wins in Hong Kong before losing a close battle to Emil Ruusuvuori. Roberto Carballes Baena has made plenty of improvements to his hard court game but Ofner&#8217;s confidence to play with aggression has looked unplayable at times. The Austrian should be the more powerful player here.<br \/>\nPrediction: <em>Ofner in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"8olny3yjT_hMOOqvIuIoUQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1903569348\" 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:'8olny3yjT_hMOOqvIuIoUQ',sig:'dN8VjBYzRhnSmza0XGCC4iq6YIzJXVTk8-Lg9ERGvD0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1903569348',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Daniel Altmaier<\/h4>\n<h4>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/h4>\n<p>Hard court wins have been few and far between for Daniel Altmaier. He plays with a lot of shape and topspin so he finds it harder than most to hit through the court. Despite the fact Felix Auger-Aliassime had a rollercoaster 2023, an average serving day should secure the win for the Canadian.<br \/>\nPrediction:\u00a0<em>Auger-Aliassime in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst the best of the rest play in Australian Open qualifying, we have some stacked ATP 250 events to enjoy, in Auckland and Adelaide. Today, we&#8217;re making predictions from the event in Auckland where Ben Shelton, Felix Auger-Aliassime, and Botic van de Zandschulp are all in action. We also predict the rest of the day&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":56967,"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":[10346,16049,4169,16662,17963,9553,15938,7453,15831,18097,18800,41797,1219,4730,15501,1342,16058,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-62672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alejandro-tabilo","tag-alejandro-tabilo-predictions","tag-atp-auckland-predictions","tag-ben-shelton","tag-ben-shelton-predictions","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp-predictions","tag-daniel-altmaier","tag-daniel-altmaier-predictions","tag-fabian-marozsan","tag-fabian-marozsan-predictions","tag-felix-auger-alassime-predictions","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-roberto-carballes-baena","tag-roberto-carballes-baena-predictions","tag-sebastian-ofner","tag-sebastian-ofner-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62672","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=62672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}