{"id":68618,"date":"2024-06-16T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=68618"},"modified":"2024-06-16T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T20:01:57","slug":"atp-queens-day-1-predictions-including-milos-raonic-vs-cameron-norrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/06\/16\/atp-queens-day-1-predictions-including-milos-raonic-vs-cameron-norrie\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Queen&#8217;s Day 1 Predictions Including Milos Raonic vs Cameron Norrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the ATP 500 event in Queen&#8217;s will feature plenty of exciting action, including a former champion in Grigor Dimitrov, a former Queen&#8217;s and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wimbledon<\/a> finalist in Milos Raonic, and home hero Cameron Norrie. As is the case in most years, this tournament features an absolutely stacked field with the world&#8217;s top players gearing up for Wimbledon in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Queen&#8217;s Club Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Rinky Hijikata vs Frances Tiafoe<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Tiafoe 1-0 Hijikata<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe has never had a good run at Wimbledon but he did win a grass title last year in Stuttgart, proving that he can play on this surface even if it&#8217;s not where he feels the most comfortable. Overall, he&#8217;s clearly a much higher level than Hijikata despite his recent struggles and he should be able to advance here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Tiafoe in 2<\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170460&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>Holger Rune vs Jordan Thompson<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is generally a very solid player on grass and he could definitely trouble Rune, but he comes into this tournament on a very bad five match losing streak, including a straight sets defeat to Raonic last week in the Netherlands. Rune played well at Roland Garros and showed last year that he&#8217;s comfortable playing on grass. He should be able to pull through a tight match here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Rune in 3<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"3fjhWSZ7T61tJ-LdGed2zg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2155334918\" 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:'3fjhWSZ7T61tJ-LdGed2zg',sig:'5QHwswgBTXpYlZdXhrY4OSgx4S1PT7Ulx_G4oqrw9oQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2155334918',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Alejandro Tabilo vs Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Tabilo is having an amazing season and might well make the Top 20 soon, but grass is unlikely to be a happy hunting ground for him. On this surface, Dadidovich Fokina should have a bit of an edge in this matchup; while it&#8217;s not his favorite surface either, he showed last year at Wimbledon that he can play quite well on it.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Davidovich Fokina in 2<\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170472&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>Grigor Dimitrov vs Adrian Mannarino<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Dimitrov 5-0 Mannarino<\/p>\n<p>Dimitrov is having an incredible late career resurgence and on paper grass should be his best chance to have success at Grand Slam level so there&#8217;s a lot of expectations regarding what he can do at Wimbledon. At Queen&#8217;s, he&#8217;s a former champion all the way back in 2014, 10 years ago, and one of the favorites to win this year&#8217;s edition too. With that said, and despite the lopsided head-to-head, Mannarino is a very good grass player who could cause Dimitrov some issues in this opening match.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Dimitrov in 3<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"KJVucDrcT354E1xeFokT0w\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2155461197\" 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:'KJVucDrcT354E1xeFokT0w',sig:'_ipJLF7Z0P5pRS6-Wtk87GNzeeIhDJTmZsCyd517y40=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2155461197',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Milos Raonic vs Cameron Norrie<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Raonic 2-0 Norrie<\/p>\n<p>Raonic has barely played on Tour in recent years, with injuries systematically destroying his career, but he is always a threat, especially on grass with his incredible serve. Last week he had a nice run in Stuttgart, only losing to eventual champion De Minaur. Norrie isn&#8217;t close to the level he showed a couple of years ago and is all the way down to #39 in the rankings. If Raonic can replicate the level he showed last week, he can definitely get the win here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Raonic in 3<\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170476&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 at the ATP 500 event in Queen&#8217;s will feature plenty of exciting action, including a former champion in Grigor Dimitrov, a former Queen&#8217;s and Wimbledon finalist in Milos Raonic, and home hero Cameron Norrie. As is the case in most years, this tournament features an absolutely stacked field with the world&#8217;s top players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":57754,"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":[1877,15551,5338,15416,10346,16049,12813,4657,6622,6648,1688,15472,348,15512,411,15683,7605,16281,1661,15493,20,16499,17113,17114,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-68618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-adrian-mannarino","tag-adrian-mannarino-predictions","tag-alejandro-davidovich-fokina","tag-alejandro-davidovich-fokina-predictions","tag-alejandro-tabilo","tag-alejandro-tabilo-predictions","tag-atp-picks","tag-atp-predictions","tag-atp-queens-club-championships-predictions","tag-atp-queens-predictions","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-cameron-norrie-predictions","tag-frances-tiafoe","tag-frances-tiafoe-predictions","tag-grigor-dimitrov","tag-grigor-dimitrov-predictions","tag-holger-rune","tag-holger-rune-predictions","tag-jordan-thompson","tag-jordan-thompson-predictions","tag-milos-raonic","tag-milos-raonic-predictions","tag-rinky-hijikata","tag-rinky-hijikata-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618","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\/1742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}