Winston-Salem Open Day 2 predictions pointed to Lorenzo Sonego beating Vit Kopriva in three sets, a call that fit a card built on tight margins and late-summer form. The pick also framed Adam Walton, Daniel Altmaier and Benjamin Bonzi as expected winners in matches that could turn on a few points.
That matters now because Winston-Salem is the last tournament leading up to the US Open, and every result here is being read as a sign of who is carrying momentum into the season’s final major. Daniil Medvedev, the 2018 champion in Winston-Salem and the 2021 US Open champion, and Stefanos Tsitsipas are among the names in the field, giving the week a sharper edge than a routine stop on tour.
Walton was the clearest example of why these forecasts lean on recent form rather than reputation. He had a nice run in Cincinnati and came very close to reaching the last 16, which helped make him a three-set pick over Tallon de Jong, a player who gets most of his results on clay and tends to struggle on faster surfaces. The logic behind that call was simple: Walton has already shown he can handle pressure in this stretch of the season, while de Jong has less to lean on away from clay.
The same pattern ran through the other matches. Daniel Altmaier was picked to beat Francisco Comesana in two sets because both players are more comfortable on clay, but Altmaier has had some good results on hard courts and had already beaten Comesana in their only previous hard-court meeting at the Australian Open last year. Bonzi was also projected to get past Kamil Majchrzak in three sets, even though Majchrzak has been having the best season of his career to date. Bonzi has been far from his best for quite a while, but the forecast still gave him the edge.
That is what makes the Winston-Salem Open so tricky to read. The field is full of players trying to build form, confidence and momentum before the US Open, yet the matches are expected to be decided by small details and key points rather than any big gap in ability. For Sonego and Kopriva, that left one clean verdict on the board and one unanswered question on the court: whether the prediction holds when Day 2 begins.
