{"id":70151,"date":"2024-07-15T22:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=70151"},"modified":"2024-07-15T22:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T02:50:43","slug":"atp-newport-day-2-predictions-mcdonald-hijikata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/07\/15\/atp-newport-day-2-predictions-mcdonald-hijikata\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Newport Day 2 Predictions Including Mackenzie McDonald vs Rinky Hijikata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last grass event of the ATP season is being played in Newport as always; while the field might look weak on paper, this is still a historic event of the tour, which always produces interesting matches with unpredictable outcomes. As expected, there are lots of American players in the draw, as well as players whose favorite surface is grass looking to get a rare ATP level title.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Newport Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Ethan Quinn vs Marc Polmans<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>This is a very rare matchup between two players outside the Top 200 at ATP level and therefore a huge chance for both to get a rare win at this level. Given that they never faced each other before, it&#8217;s even harder to predict how this one will go. Polmans made it through qualifying here playing some very good tennis and that extra match play and confidence might make the difference for him here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Polmans in 3<\/p>\n<p>[tgdcta items=&#8221;1&#8243; id=&#8221;170460&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h4>Jakub Mensik vs Alex Bolt<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Both players had first round exits at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wimbledon<\/a>, but while Bolt fell meekly to Casper Ruud, Mensik actually played quite decently in a five-set loss to Bublik. The 18-year-old Czech has been making some very nice progress this year, even making an ATP final in Doha, and has a good chance to make a real good run here. He should be able to make it through this first round with relative ease.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Mensik in 2<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2G9JttbNSF5NXPPX5CGisA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2159497724\" 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:'2G9JttbNSF5NXPPX5CGisA',sig:'Lx7-ofbdLsRFAuWCbYAdyU4jcjJmyL1n01h8XhqZncM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2159497724',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Mackenzie McDonald vs Rinky Hijikata<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Hijikata 1-0 McDonald<\/p>\n<p>Their one previous meeting was last year on grass and Hijikata won in three sets. Neither player has had a good grass season so far, with Hijikata&#8217;s run to the quarterfinals at Queen&#8217;s the only highlight. Just like when they faced last year, it should a tightly contested match with against Hijikata having a very slight edge.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Hijikata in 3<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last grass event of the ATP season is being played in Newport as always; while the field might look weak on paper, this is still a historic event of the tour, which always produces interesting matches with unpredictable outcomes. As expected, there are lots of American players in the draw, as well as players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":64145,"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":[4439,16197,16271,7251,12813,4657,18070,18075,18805,19130,2400,15602,7638,16181,17113,17114,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-70151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alex-bolt","tag-alex-bolt-predictions","tag-atp-hall-of-fame-championships-predictions","tag-atp-newport-predictions","tag-atp-picks","tag-atp-predictions","tag-ethan-quinn","tag-ethan-quinn-predictions","tag-jakub-mensik","tag-jakub-mensik-predictions","tag-mackenzie-mcdonald","tag-mackenzie-mcdonald-predictions","tag-marc-polmans","tag-marc-polmans-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\/70151","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=70151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}