QUEENS 🇬🇧

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— Andy Murray is back in doubles action, with him and partner Lopez drawing the top seeds Cabal and Farah in the 1st Rd:

HALLE 🇩🇪

Full Printable Draw PDF 🖨 (🇩🇪 Halle Singles)

DRAWS TL;DR

Queens QFs If Seeds Hold

🇬🇷 Tsitsipas (1) v Auger-Aliassime 🇨🇦

🇦🇷 Del Potro v Raonic 🇨🇦

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🇭🇷 Cilic v Medvedev 🇷🇺

🇨🇭Wawrinka v Anderson (2) 🇿🇦

Halle QFs If Seeds Hold

🇨🇭 Federer (1) vs Bautista Agut 🇪🇸

🇭🇷 Coric vs Monfils 🇫🇷

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🇬🇪 Basilashvili vs Khachanov 🇷🇺

🇩🇪 A.Zverev (2) vs Pella 🇦🇷

PROJECTED PATHS FOR TOP 2 SEEDS

Tsitsipas (1) (Top Half) - Queens 🇬🇧

R1: Edmund

R2: Chardy/Kukushkin

QF: Kyrgios/Dimitrov/Auger-Aliassime (FAA)

SF: Del Potro/Raonic

F: Cilic/Medvedev/Anderson/

Summary: Nasty path, but then again Queens has a tendency of throwing the top seeds in at the deep-end given the small draw size and stacked entry list. Stefanos will probably get past an out of form Edmund and Chardy (although losing sets would be expected), but then will then likely run into Kyrgios or Dimitrov (FAA will be coming from a deep run in Stuttgart this week and should be a slight underdog vs Dimitrov). A Tsitsipas matchup vs Dimitrov, or especially Kyrgios, would be a coin flip given how early into the grass season we are. Raonic is injured and may not play Queens at all (just pulled out of Stuttgart), so Delpo likely awaits in the SF.

Prediction: Quarter-final.

Anderson (2) (Bottom Half) - Queens 🇬🇧

R1: Norrie

R2: Simon/Qualifier

QF: Wawrinka/Evans/Tiafoe

SF: Cilic/Medvedev

F: Tsitsipas/Kyrgios/Delpo/Raonic

Summary: Norrie is short of form, but represents a banana-skin Rd 1 on grass for a rusty Anderson. Kando then gets one of the softer Rd 2’s in the draw (depending on who comes through qualifying), before running into (most likely) Dan Evans. Given Kando hasn’t played for about 3 months, it’s tough to see him going particularly deep, despite having a kinder path than the other quarters.

Prediction: Rd 1 or QF.

Federer (1) (Top Half) - Halle 🇩🇪

R1: Millman

R2: Tsonga/Paire

QF: BautistaAgut/Fritz/Gasquet

SF: Coric/Monfils/Hurkacz

F: Zverev/Goffin/Berrettini/Struff

Summary: Tough-ish opening couple of rounds, although hard to imagine Millman causing Fed too many problems in the absence of stifling humidity (which played a big role in their last meeting at US Open). Tsonga is short of form, and Paire isn’t the same player on grass as he is on clay, but both could be interesting if they play above their expected level. RBA was playing excellently last year in Halle until he injured himself in the SF, so that matchup probably holds the biggest banana skin potential of the first three rounds. Tough to see a repeat of Coric’s title winning run from last year, especially given that the Croatian is going deep in Holland this week, so Federer may be left with a relatively straightforward SF opponent (grass is Monfils’ worst surface).

Prediction: Title 🏆

Zverev (2) (Bottom Half) - Halle 🇩🇪

R1: Haase

R2: Kohlschreiber/Johnson

QF: Pella/Goffin/Ebden

SF: Khachanov/Struff/Basilashvili/Berrettini

F: Federer

Summary: Judging Zverev’s draws this year can be a rather pointless thought exercise given his patchy form. The German probably has the easier half overall, but Haase could very well turn out to be a horrible Rd1 (tight H2H, with Zverev leading 3-2). After that, Kohlschreiber leads Zverev 3-2 in their H2H, but grass should favour Zverev somewhat in that matchup. I’d expect Zverev, if he makes it to the QF’s, would then come up against Goffin or Ebden, both of which he should beat if he’s playing well enough to come through Haase and Kohlschreiber. Zverev then has a potential SF against a range of opponents, most likely of which (I think) will be Struff or Basilashvili (purely because Berrettini will be coming straight from the final in Stuttgart).

Prediction: Final

EARLY MATCHES TO WATCH OUT FOR 🔥

🔥 - Potentially Good

🔥🔥 - Potentially Great

🍿 - GRAB THE POPCORN

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🇬🇧QUEENS

Rd 1:

Tsitsipas vs Edmund 🔥

Kyrgios vs Mannarino 🔥🔥

Dimitrov vs Auger-Aliassime 🍿

Del Potro vs Shapovalov 🔥

Cilic vs Garin 🔥🔥

Medvedev vs Verdasco 🔥🔥

Wawrinka vs Evans 🔥 (this is a worse draw for Wawrinka than it is for Evans)

Anderson vs Norrie

Rd 2 (possible):

Tsitsipas vs Chardy 🔥

Kyrgios vs Dimitrov/Auger-Aliassime 🍿

Medvedev vs Pouille 🔥

QF (possible):

Tsitsipas vs Kyrgios/Dimitrov/Auger-Aliassime 🍿

Cilic vs Medvedev 🔥🔥

Wawrinka/Evans vs Anderson 🔥

🇩🇪 HALLE

Rd 1:

Federer vs Millman

Tsonga vs Paire 🔥🔥

Bautista Agut vs Fritz 🔥🔥

Monfils vs Herbert 🔥

Basilashvili vs Berrettini 🔥

A.Zverev vs Haase 🔥🔥

Rd 2 (possible):

Federer vs Tsonga/Paire 🔥

BautistaAgut/Fritz vs Gasquet 🔥

Coric vs Hurkacz 🔥

Monfils vs Molleker 🔥

Struff vs Khachanov

Goffin vs Ebden 🔥

A.Zverev vs Kohlschreiber 🔥🔥

QF (possible):

Federer vs Bautista Agut 🔥

Coric vs Monfils 🔥

Berrettini vs Struff 🔥

Goffin vs Zverev 🔥

PLAYERS REACT TO THEIR DRAW

Tsitsipas realising he’ll probably have to play Edmund, Chardy and Kyrgios, on grass, in a row for his first few rounds:

Tsitsipas at the players party when he realises that Medvedev is as far away in the draw as humanly possible:

— TFW everyone is saying how ‘bad a draw’ Dan Evans, grass court specialist, got by playing you first round.

— Murray fans opening the Queens doubles draw sheet.

— Shapovalov has lost in the opening round at 5 out of his last 7 events. Now plays Delpo in the 1st Rd of Queens.

—Nick Kyrgios and Fernando Verdasco sit down for a nice quiet lunch in the Queens Club cafeteria:

— The players warming up on Halle’s centre court after a few days of play.

PREDICTIONS

— QUEENS —

Quarter-Finals

🇬🇷 Tsitsipas vs Kyrgios 🇦🇺

Winner: Kyrgios

🇦🇷 Del Potro vs Cecchinato 🇮🇹

Winner: Del Potro

🇭🇷 Cilic vs Medvedev 🇷🇺

Winner: Cilic

🇬🇧 Evans vs Anderson 🇿🇦

Winner: Evans

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Semi-Finals

🇦🇺 Kyrgios vs Del Potro 🇦🇷

Winner: Kyrgios

🇭🇷 Cilic vs Evans 🇬🇧

Winner: Cilic

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Final 🏆

🇦🇺 Kyrgios vs Cilic 🇭🇷

Winner: Cilic

— HALLE —

Quarter-Finals

🇨🇭 Federer vs Bautista Agut 🇪🇸 (or maybe Fritz)

Winner: Federer

🇭🇷 Hurkacz vs Herbert 🇫🇷

Winner: Hurkacz

🇩🇪 Struff vs Basilashvili 🇬🇪

Winner: Struff

🇩🇪 A.Zverev vs Goffin 🇧🇪

Winner: Zverev

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Semi-Finals

🇨🇭 Federer vs Hurkacz 🇵🇱

Winner: Federer

🇩🇪 A.Zverev vs Struff 🇩🇪

Winner: Zverev

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Final 🏆

🇨🇭 Federer vs A.Zverev 🇩🇪

Winner: Federer

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