Tennis: Abrams’ Quick-picks for the Miami Open Men’s Third Round 

Rather than give you my rationale as to why I’m going with who I’m going with, today I’m going to give you my Quick-picks with no analysis. You might find this fun, as I’ve made a couple controversial picks and have a couple of seeds going down. In particular, I’ve got RBA over Fabio Fognini, Hubert Hurkacz over FA2, Joao Sousa over Kevin Anderson, Denis Shapovalov over Anddrey Rublev, Marco Cecchinato over David Goffin and David Ferrer over Francis Tiafoe. We can discuss these as I make my Round of 16 picks over the next two days, but I have my reasons for thinking, for example why Big Fo won’t take out the retiring Spaniard Ferrer. Or Why I think Hurkacz will take out the brilliant Canadian teenager FA2. Six-seeded Kevin Anderson losing to a clay courter here in Miami? Yep. And the Fabulous Fognini going out in his second match? Oh, yeah.

1. Novak Djokovic over Federico Delbonis

2. Roberto Bautista Agut over Fabio Fognini

3. Milos Raonic over Kyle Edmud

4. John Isner over Albert Ramos-Vinolas

5. Hubert Hurkacz over Felix Auger-Aliassime

6. Nikoloz Basilaashvili over Robin Haase

7. Borna Coric over Jeremy Chardy

8. Nick Kyrgios over Dusan Lajovic

9. Joao Sousa over Kevin Anderson

10. Grigor Dimitrov over Jordan Thompson

11. Daniil Medvedev over Reilly Opelka

12. Roger Federer over Filip Krajinovic

13. Stefanos Tsitsipas over Leonardo Mayer

14. Denis Shapovalov over Andrey Rublev

15. Marco Cecchinato over David Goffin

16. David Ferrer over Frances Tiafoe