Day 2 of the US Open is here and we're ready for plenty more action across the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Here are my bets for Tabilo vs Goffin and Marozsan vs Medjedovic in my Tuesday US Open predictions from the men's draw.
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Tuesday US Open Predictions
Alejandro Tabilo (-127) vs David Goffin (+104)
11 a.m. ET
I'm going to oppose the money coming in on the veteran based on his performance last week in North Carolina.
Tabilo has lost his last two matches and Goffin had one of his best weeks of the season in Winston-Salem. That is not enough for me to believe that the price should make this one a 2.5-game spread.
Tabilo is more athletic at this stage, has the bigger game and is in the midst of a breakout campaign on the main tour, even if he has struggled a bit of late.
Goffin should really have lost his first match last week, then beat a player with fitness questions, followed that up by beating a servebot and then he did pick up an impressive win against Rinky Hijikata to his credit. He's still over 30-years old and his game isn't as impressive as it once was.
Give me Tabilo to turn things around here and get back on track against a declining veteran, regardless of his run from a week ago.
Pick: Tabilo ML (-127 via BetRivers)
Fabian Marozsan (-139) vs Hamad Medjedovic (+112)
3:30 p.m. ET
This is a match showcasing two relatively young talents that might be showing signs of some burnout as a long season on the tour nears it's final stages.
For Marozsan, it's been a rough go of things recently. Since making a pair of impressive runs at the Sunshine Double tournaments of Indian Wells and Miami in March, the 24-year 0ld who is hovering around the top-50 in the world has been downright poor.
He's just 8-14 since that time on tour and 8-15 if one factors in the Olympic Games in Paris. Seven of those losses have come in matches where he entered as the favorite, and what's most concerning is that his unforced error count seems to be a never ending issue for him.
Medjedovic hasn't been the most impressive this summer, himself. He basically sleep walked through qualifying, though when it was time to turn it on against lesser opposition, he was able to take over. He won the third sets in each qualifying round by a score of 6-1 or 6-2.
He's simply got the bigger game, has more potential and I don't think he hits into tight windows nearly as much as Marozsan. Not to mention, even if he does commit unforced errors, he has the raw power to negate them with aces or winners far more easily.
Finally, these two met in Stuttgart. Medjedovic won, but that's not why I bring the match up. The Serbian closed at an average price of around -165 to -170. What exactly has happened since that match that would make one believe he should be an underdog? Simply moving from grass to hard courts? His form this summer? It's certainly nothing Marozsan has done in the time since that last encounter.
Pick: Medjedovic ML (+112 via BetRivers)
