{"id":77004,"date":"2024-12-29T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=77004"},"modified":"2024-12-29T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T17:08:37","slug":"atp-brisbane-day-2-predictions-lehecka-rune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/12\/29\/atp-brisbane-day-2-predictions-lehecka-rune\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Brisbane Day 2 Predictions Including Jiri Lehecka vs Holger Rune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 tennis season has kicked off and while all the focus is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a> there&#8217;s still some important tournaments to be played before that, including this ATP 250 event in Brisbane, with none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/12\/28\/djokovic-kyrgios-headline-atp-brisbane\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> leading the field. While the Serb won&#8217;t be in action yet, there&#8217;s plenty of great matches to look forward to Monday, with both of last year&#8217;s finalists&#8211;Grigor Dimitrov and Holger Rune&#8211;taking to the court.<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Brisbane Day 2 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Arthur Rinderknech vs Yoshihito Nishioka<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Nishioka 1-0 Rinderknech<\/p>\n<p>Nishioka won a very hard fought encounter in last year&#8217;s Atlanta semfinals en route to a third career title and this should also be a very tightly contested affair. Both players struggle to make headway against top level opponents, but are solid ATP level players who can compete for titles at ATP 250 level. Nishioka is usually the slightly more consistent player of the two and has perhaps the slighest of edges here.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Nishioka in 3<\/p>\n<h4>Grigor Dimitrov vs Yannick Hanfmann<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Dimitrov 1-0 Hanfmann<\/p>\n<p>Dimitrov had an amazing 2024 season and now faces the big challenge of staying in the top 10 or perhaps rising even higher. He is the defending champion in Brisbane and always tends to play well at this venue, so he is definitely expected to have a deep run here and make relatively easy work of this first round encounter.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Dimitrov in 2<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"ySZ-Tn8lQlt99CDYmpG5LQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2191623623\" 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:'ySZ-Tn8lQlt99CDYmpG5LQ',sig:'JTpG2c7uaW9Oo5-h8b6T05Pyxu8OLyqOWzJn6Cb56CU=',w:'594px',h:'386px',items:'2191623623',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Jiri Lehecka vs Holger Rune<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Rune 2-1 Lehecka<\/p>\n<p>Going by ranking, this is definitely the match of the day, even more so if we consider that Lehecka is likely considerably underranked given his long injury absence last year. 2025 will be a big year for both players, especially for Rune who is hyped as a potential Grand Slam champion, and a win here would be the perfect start for either player. Rune should be considered a very slight favorite, but it is an incredibly difficult match to call, one that could genuinely go either way.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:<\/strong> Rune in 3<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 tennis season has kicked off and while all the focus is on the Australian Open there&#8217;s still some important tournaments to be played before that, including this ATP 250 event in Brisbane, with none other than Novak Djokovic leading the field. While the Serb won&#8217;t be in action yet, there&#8217;s plenty of great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":61120,"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":[10566,15504,4089,12813,4657,10073,411,15683,7605,16281,13325,17201,2373,2369,6222,15610,835,15714],"class_list":["post-77004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-arthur-rinderknech","tag-arthur-rinderknech-predictions","tag-atp-brisbane-predictions","tag-atp-picks","tag-atp-predictions","tag-brisbane-international-predictions","tag-grigor-dimitrov","tag-grigor-dimitrov-predictions","tag-holger-rune","tag-holger-rune-predictions","tag-jiri-lehecka","tag-jiri-lehecka-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-yannick-hanfmann","tag-yannick-hanfmann-predictions","tag-yoshihito-nishioka","tag-yoshihito-nishioka-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77004","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=77004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77021,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77004\/revisions\/77021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}