Pablo Carreno-Busta and Karen Khachanov will face off in the 2^nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 8^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on GRAND STAND ARENA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pablo Carreno-Busta who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Pablo Carreno-Busta is the pick to win this match.
Pablo Carreno-Busta -> 1.55
Karen Khachanov -> 2.52

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Prediction and head to head Pablo Carreno-Busta vs. Karen Khachanov

This will be the 8^th time that Pablo Carreno-Busta and Karen Khachanov play each other. The head to head is 4-3 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), but Carreno-Busta has a winning record of 2-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Khachanov won 6-0 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Indian wells back in 2021.

Pablo Carreno-Busta

Pablo Carreno-Busta

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Rank
89

High
10

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2025	41-28	25-10	14-14	2-4	0-0	0-0
2024	10-12	7-6	2-4	1-1	0-1	0-0
2023	2-5	2-4	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-0
2022	37-25	19-8	11-9	5-5	2-3	0-0
2021	38-18	14-8	17-4	5-4	2-2	0-0

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Ranked no. 18, Pablo got to the 2^nd round after defeating Federico Delbonis 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Carreno-Busta had a good straight sets win against Delbonis (6-3 6-2). During the match, Carreno-Busta scored 66 points vs Delbonis’s 46. Carreno-Busta was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Carreno-Busta scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Pablo Carreno-Busta lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Carreno-Busta put 65% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the 2nd serve. Pablo broke Delbonis 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Carreno-Busta has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (385-212). 7-4 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Carreno-Busta has an aggregate 217-98 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Carreno-Busta’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Barcelona.

The Spaniard has an overall 16-9 win-loss record in 2022, 7-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Rome

Carreno-Busta's Record

Karen Khachanov

Karen Khachanov

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Rank
18

High
8

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2025	32-24	13-11	9-6	2-4	8-3	0-0
2024	37-22	14-12	8-4	14-3	1-3	0-0
2023	34-18	18-10	10-5	6-3	0-0	0-0
2022	36-25	17-11	9-7	6-5	4-2	0-0
2021	35-24	17-9	5-6	8-6	5-3	0-0

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Ranked no. 24, Khachanov reached the 2^nd round after beating Giulio Zeppieri 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Zeppieri (6-3 6-4). During the match Khachanov scored 72 points vs Zeppieri’s 53. Khachanov was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Khachanov recorded 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Karen Khachanov was extremely effective on serve to win 86% (30/35) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Karen broke Zeppieri twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).

The Russian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Adelaide.

Karen has an aggregate 13-11 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2019. See his history.

Rome

Khachanov's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Carreno-Busta and Khachanov played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Carreno-Busta and Khachanov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Carreno-Busta played 2 games less than Khachanov. Pablo scored 26 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Karen recorded 30 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Carreno-Busta bagged 1 ace . Khachanov also scored 5 aces . Carreno-Busta won 70% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Khachanov won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Pablo broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Spaniard surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Karen broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Pablo
Carreno-Busta

3:6

Karen
Khachanov

Rank

89

High

10

1Hard5

2Clay1

Rank

18

High

8

Win Loss

Carreno-Busta

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2025 2024 2023

39 - 25

32 - 24

25-10

Hard

13-11

1-2

I Hard

2-4

13-13

Clay

9-6

0-0

Grass

8-3

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• Cristian GarinGarin – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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