{"id":64211,"date":"2024-02-21T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=64211"},"modified":"2024-02-21T17:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:45:16","slug":"atp-doha-quarter-final-predictions-rublev-mensik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/02\/21\/atp-doha-quarter-final-predictions-rublev-mensik\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Doha Quarterfinal Predictions Including Andrey Rublev vs Jakub Mensik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final eight at the ATP 250 in Doha features all top four seeds taking on unseeded opponents, led by Andrey Rublev. Will we have a semi-final lineup with the best four players in the event?<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Doha Quarterfinal Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Ugo Humbert vs Gael Monfils<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Humbert 2-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a bit of a resurgence from former top 10 player Gael Monfils in the last two weeks. From beating Denis Shapovalov in Rotterdam and then pushing eventual champion Jannik Sinner the hardest last week, he\u2019s backed it up with two good wins against Zhang and Van De Zandschulp. Now he comes up against fellow Frenchman Humbert who won the Marseille title just two weeks ago. On a faster indoor court like the one Humbert won on, he would be favourite to win this with the way he\u2019s serving and hitting his forehand but on a court that plays the way Doha is playing, expect Monfils to grind out some longer rallies and push Humbert a fair bit.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Humbert in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170472&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>Alexei Popyrin vs Alexander Bublik<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Popyrin 1-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three years ago the Australian beat <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/03\/03\/alexander-bublik-underrated-maverick\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the Kazakh<\/a> in the Singapore final to win his maiden title despite being against the odds of doing so. Since then there\u2019s no doubt both players are far better and what\u2019s the most interesting part is, they play for the most part a very similar game. Relying heavily on their big serves backed up with powerful groundstrokes, it\u2019s going to come down to who can produce their best tennis when it really matters. Coming off the Montpellier title a few weeks ago, you would think it would be Bublik and when playing well, he\u2019s the better of the two men without a doubt.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Bublik in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"_jM4y_iPSLZg1W4MUyN0VQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1999694616\" 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:'_jM4y_iPSLZg1W4MUyN0VQ',sig:'p_QdL3TWysxzG_2tK9cBqqnpU3o-AUDMhoyHO6-hLnM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1999694616',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Emil Ruusuvuori vs Karen Khachanov<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: Khachanov 2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ruusuvuori is no doubt becoming one of the more interesting players on tour. Despite possessing no killer weapon, he\u2019s made a career of beating players he should beat more often than not with the odd big win just being solid and nothing more. With his Russian opponent on the other hand, you really don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to get and that\u2019s really been the story the last few years, sometimes you get a world beater but more often you get someone who\u2019s not living up to his potential. Despite the Finn winning their last match at the very start of this year, expect Khachanov to avenge the loss and outhit the 24 year old en route to making the semi-finals.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Khachanov in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"1R4zunXdRU9Qfure4Ce32w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2028227964\" 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:'1R4zunXdRU9Qfure4Ce32w',sig:'tbfY0B1rFNk2KkvsWevq993U7gbOAbS85-D4RrYkTxA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2028227964',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Andrey Rublev vs Jakub Mensik<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head: First Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the reward for beating former World #1 Andy Murray in the longest match ever in Doha? A meeting with World #5 and top seed Andrey Rublev. Mensik has shown us all already he\u2019s the real deal, from beating Shapovalov in straights at the Australian Open and barely losing to Humbert Hurkacz in the next round to his heroics against Andy Murray here, the teenager is only going from strength to strength. Unfortunately, when you take into account the three and a half hours against Murray and the Russian plays well here, evident by being a former champion and finalist here, it\u2019s hard to see much hope for him. Rublev will dominate the Czech off the ground and unless the youngster is able to have a field day serving, it\u2019s hard to see this one being overly close.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Rublev in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170460&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final eight at the ATP 250 in Doha features all top four seeds taking on unseeded opponents, led by Andrey Rublev. Will we have a semi-final lineup with the best four players in the event? ATP Doha Quarterfinal Predictions Ugo Humbert vs Gael Monfils Head-to-head: Humbert 2-0 It\u2019s been a bit of a resurgence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":63008,"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":[510,15492,3970,15508,511,15413,4092,8884,15511,144,15824,18805,19130,844,15516,41908,2373,2369,3638,15614],"class_list":["post-64211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alexander-bublik","tag-alexander-bublik-predictions","tag-alexei-popyrin","tag-alexei-popyrin-predictions","tag-andrey-rublev","tag-andrey-rublev-predictions","tag-atp-doha-predictions","tag-emil-ruusuvuori","tag-emil-ruusuvuori-predictions","tag-gael-monfils","tag-gael-monfils-predictions","tag-jakub-mensik","tag-jakub-mensik-predictions","tag-karen-khachanov","tag-karen-khachanov-predictions","tag-qatar-exxonmobil-open","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-ugo-humbert","tag-ugo-humbert-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64211","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\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}