{"id":99741,"date":"2026-03-18T01:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=99741"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:16:24","slug":"atp-miami-day-1-predictions-dimitrov-collignon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/03\/18\/atp-miami-day-1-predictions-dimitrov-collignon\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Miami Day 1 Predictions Including Grigor Dimitrov vs Raphael Collignon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second leg of the sunshine double begins on Wednesday as the Miami Open welcomes the best in the world to its grounds. Among the many intriguing first-round matchups, we get to see former World No. 3 Grigor Dimitrov<\/a> square off against Raphael Collignon. As always, we at LWOT have the preview and prediction for all matches on the ATP Miami slate. But who will advance?<\/p>\n

ATP Miami Day 1 Predictions<\/h2>\n

Denis Shapovalov vs Botic van de Zandschulp<\/span><\/h4>\n

Head-to-Head<\/strong>: Shapovalov 1-1 van de Zandschulp<\/p>\n

Former World No. 10 Denis Shapovalov has had an up-and-down start to the season, but a hardcourt Masters event offers an opportunity for the lefty to play into the second week. Botic van de Zandschulp has not won a match in over a month. I will side with the more in-form and talented Canadian.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Shapovalov in 2<\/em><\/p>\n

Rafael Jodar vs Yannick Hanfmann<\/h4>\n

Head-to-Head<\/strong>: first meeting<\/p>\n

19-year-old Rafael Jodar is on the brink of breaking into the Top 100 for the first time. A few wins in the ATP Miami main draw would get him there. He squares off against German veteran Yannick Hanfmann. Having both advanced through qualifying, Jodar and Hanfmann have a few Miami wins under their belts. The German prefers the clay, and because of that, I will take the big-hitting teenager to pull off the slight upset.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Jodar in 3<\/em><\/p>\n

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Marcos Giron vs Martin Landaluce<\/span><\/h4>\n

Head-to-Head<\/strong>: first meeting<\/p>\n

Marcos Giron is coming off a runner-up finish at the Phoenix Challenger, notching two top-50 wins during the week. Now back to the main tour, he squares off against young Spanish qualifier Martin Landaluce. The 20-year-old enters the main draw with confidence, coming off two upset wins in qualifying. He is undoubtedly a talented kid with a bright future, but Giron should be able to buckle down and force the young Spaniard to display consistency and rally tolerance.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Giron in 2<\/em><\/p>\n

Grigor Dimitrov vs Raphael Collignon<\/h4>\n

Head-to-Head<\/strong>: Dimitrov 0-1 Collignon<\/p>\n

Since his unfortunate injury against Jannik Sinner at Wimbledon, Grigor Dimitrov has struggled to recapture much form. The 34-year-old is just 2-5 this season, and actually lost to Raphael Collignon 6-7 3-6 in Brisbane. The 24-year-old Belgian is 13-5 across all competitions this year and is finally putting together a game that translates across all surfaces. This will be a battle, but I expect Dimitrov, backed by an ATP Miami crowd that will show him love, to advance in three tight sets.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Dimitrov in 3<\/em><\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea – USA TODAY Sports<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second leg of the sunshine double begins on Wednesday as the Miami Open welcomes the best in the world to its grounds. Among the many intriguing first-round matchups, we get to see former World No. 3 Grigor Dimitrov square off against Raphael Collignon. As always, we at LWOT have the preview and prediction for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4067,"featured_media":55455,"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":[2777,5197,9553,15938,776,15517,411,15683,6915,15681,18299,18300,43245,43459,18766,42877,2373,2369,6222,15610],"class_list":["post-99741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-atp-miami","tag-atp-miami-predictions","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp","tag-botic-van-de-zandschulp-predictions","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-denis-shapovalov-predictions","tag-grigor-dimitrov","tag-grigor-dimitrov-predictions","tag-marcos-giron","tag-marcos-giron-predictions","tag-martin-landaluce","tag-martin-landaluce-predictions","tag-rafael-jodar","tag-rafael-jodar-predictions","tag-raphael-collignon","tag-raphael-collignon-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-yannick-hanfmann","tag-yannick-hanfmann-predictions"],"modified_by":"Shane Black","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99741","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\/4067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99744,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99741\/revisions\/99744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}