Billy Harris vs Lorenzo Musetti Prediction & Betting Tips - ATP Queen's Club Championships

Prediction published on 20/06/2024, 16:17  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 20/06/2024 at 16:41 in Tennis Predictions

There are two British players in the Queen's Club quarter-finals. Billy Harris wasn't expected to get this far and takes on Lorenzo Musetti for a place in the semi-finals. In the last four of the Cinch Championships, the winner of this match will face either fourth seed Taylor Fritz or unseeded Jordan Thompson. Harris isn't a name that will be too familiar to most of you but the same could be said of Emma Raducanu before her success. Harris is 29 years-old and at the start of this tournament was the world number 162 but was outside the top 200 at the start of this month.  A win here will take him into his third semi-final of the month. The other two were in the Challenger Tour grass court events held in Surbiton and Nottingham. His run to the last eight at Queen's Club has seen him rise to 138th. He can climb another 24 places if beating Musetti. Already this week he's beaten Tomas Martin Etcheverry (in three sets) and qualifier Giovanni Mpetsi Perricard without dropping a set.

Lorenzo Musetti is chasing a seeding at Wimbledon which begins on July 1. The Italian is up a place to 29th after reaching this quarter-final. Victory on Friday can see him rise to 29th in the live rankings. He started this week with a big win over Alex de Minaur. The Australian was the second seed and won the Libema Open last Sunday. Musetti only won one game in the first set but won the next two sets for the loss of only six games. That took him into a match against unseeded Brandon Nakashima and he won that in three sets, losing the middle one. A win over Harris will take him into his second successive ATP Tour semi-final after getting to that stage in Stuttgart this week. We tip him to end the run of his British opponent.