Jannik Sinner vs Pablo Carreno Busta 8/11/22 Montreal Tennis Picks, Predictions, Odds

Jannik Sinner will meet Pablo Carreno Busta in the Round of 16 of the 2022 Montreal Open. The match will be played on Thursday August 11th, 2022.

Jannik Sinner is the 7th seed here at the Montreal Open and is ranked 12th on the ATP Tour. The young Italian is one of the best young players in the world, and he has been having a fantastic season. Sinner enters this event as one of the most in-form players on the Tour, winning the Umag Open last week in impressive fashion, defeating Carlos Alcaraz in the Final. He continued that winning streak by defeating Adrian Mannarino in the Second Round, although he looked a bit flat in the first set before dominating. His explosive baseline game will be very tough for Pablo Carreno Busta to handle here, and he enters this match as the big favorite.

Pablo Carreno Busta is ranked 23rd in the world, and began this tournament impressively, stunning Matteo Berrettini in the First Round and then crushing Holger Rune in the Second, dropping only 8 games in total. He has long been one of the most consistent players on the Tour and is very difficult to beat on all surfaces. Carreno Busta did not face a single break point in the match against Rune, and found a way to break serve five times. While he is the underdog here against Jannik Sinner, his experience plus the fact that he has been much more impressive so far this week lead us to believe that we could be in for a battle.

Usually I would say that this will be one way traffic for Jannik Sinner, but Pablo Carreno Busta has truly looked unstoppable this week at the Montreal Open. The manner in which he is dominating his opponents truly makes us pause and rethink the outcome of this match. Regardless, I still think that Jannik Sinner has too much upside here, and has really taken a step up this year. He is the better player on this surface and while it it is likely to be close, his bigger serve should be the difference here. He rarely has bad matches nor loses to players ranked below him, and I expect him to see off the tough challenge from PCB here in three sets.