{"id":85010,"date":"2025-06-11T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=85010"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:59:55","slug":"atp-stuttgart-day-4-predictions-zverev-moutet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/11\/atp-stuttgart-day-4-predictions-zverev-moutet\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Stuttgart Day 4 Predictions Including Alexander Zverev vs Corentin Moutet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four more quarterfinal berths will be up for grabs at the ATP 250 in Stuttgart. Top seed Alexander Zverev returns to play his first warm-up tournament before <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wimbledon<\/a>. Who will reach the last eight?<\/p>\n<h2>ATP Stuttgart Day 4 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Justin Engel vs Alex Michelsen<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Engel registered <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/06\/11\/17-year-old-justin-engel-stuttgart\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">his second ATP win<\/a> and both have come on home soil (he beat Jan-Lennard Struff in Hamburg). Tournament organizers were convinced of his talent to grant him a wild card and the 17-year-old impressed on his grass-court debut. Taking out a seasoned veteran like Duckworth on this surface is no mean feat. Michelsen, for his part, saw off Gael Monfils in an entertaining three-setter. While the age gap between the pair is not too big, Michelsen is more complete and has so much maturity to make this a comfortable afternoon.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Michelsen in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Learner Tien vs Brandon Nakashima<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Tien is another promising talent who won his first professional match on grass courts albeit via retirement. The 19-year-old was locked at one-set all against Yoshihito Nishioka when the Japanese lefty was forced to quit. It was Nishioka&#8217;s fourth retirement in his last five matches. Not that Tien will care after his recent slump (lost three matches in a row coming to Stuttgart). However, this is a step up. Nakashima has made the second week of Wimbledon in the past and he&#8217;s making a real push to make the Top 32 and achieve a seeding spot before this year&#8217;s tournament.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Nakashima in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"yKLutTGERiJq9eUT1-UEWQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2218917191\" 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:'yKLutTGERiJq9eUT1-UEWQ',sig:'0EfEddv7TfeVIhcrI0vHJurVecsJTaQMHfRPlpddOr8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2218917191',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 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> Auger-Aliassime 1-1 Mpetshi Perricard<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime is a two-time finalist in this tournament. This will be his third appearance and first since 2021. The Canadian has had a tumultuous time on grass in recent years with three straight first-round defeats at Wimbledon. His last match win at a warm-up event on grass was at 2022 Halle. The most certain outcome here is that both players will at least rack up the ace count into double digits. But I&#8217;m giving the Frenchman a slight edge to come out on top. His potent serve is a serious X-factor that can turn around any match.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Mpetshi Perricard in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Alexander Zverev vs Corentin Moutet<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Head-to-head:<\/strong> first meeting<\/p>\n<p>Zverev is the top favorite for the title. He can complete a German double after lifting the Munich title in the clay swing. His record in this tournament is shabby, to say the least. His only win came a decade ago although he last featured in Stuttgart in 2019. Moutet has played a match in Stuttgart, getting a chaotic win over Fabio Fognini in the first round. Grass has been a tricky surface for Zverev, but his game translates to all surfaces. He should cruise here.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Zverev in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four more quarterfinal berths will be up for grabs at the ATP 250 in Stuttgart. Top seed Alexander Zverev returns to play his first warm-up tournament before Wimbledon. Who will reach the last eight? ATP Stuttgart Day 4 Predictions Justin Engel vs Alex Michelsen Head-to-head: first meeting Engel registered his second ATP win and both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":74186,"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":[18656,18925,85,15615,6447,10956,16202,6340,15515,1219,15554,18755,18865,42551,42550,18113,18114,2373,2369],"class_list":["post-85010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-alex-michelsen","tag-alex-michelsen-predictions","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-alexander-zverev-predictions","tag-atp-stuttgart-predictions","tag-brandon-nakashima","tag-brandon-nakashima-predictions","tag-corentin-moutet","tag-corentin-moutet-predictions","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-felix-auger-aliassime-predictions","tag-giovanni-mpetshi-perricard","tag-giovanni-mpetshi-perricard-predictions","tag-justin-engel","tag-justin-engel-predictions","tag-learner-tien","tag-learner-tien-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85010","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\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85027,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85010\/revisions\/85027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}