Bernard Tomic and Timofey Skatov will square off in the qualifications of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on Court 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Bernard Tomic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Bernard Tomic is the pick to win this match.
Bernard Tomic -> 1.57
Timofey Skatov -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Bernard Tomic vs. Timofey Skatov
There is no head to head record between Bernard Tomic and Timofey Skatov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Bernard Tomic
32 - 24win/loss
185
17
WWWLWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32-24 | 26-16 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 43-34 | 30-24 | 6-7 | 2-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 50-29 | 34-19 | 12-5 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-27 | 35-19 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-12 | 24-7 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 185, the Australian got to the qualifications after beating Terence Atmane 6-3 4-6 5-3 ret..
In the qualifications against Atmane, the Australian had a free pass after Atmane retired on a 6-3 4-6 5-3 . scoreline.
Tomic has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (262-208). 26-16 on hard in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Tomic has an overall 179-118 record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Lincoln Challenger where he defeated Mark Lajal in the final 4-6 7-6(4) 7-6(3).
The Australian has an overall 32-24 win-loss record in 2026, 26-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2015. See his history.
Timofey Skatov
32 - 29win/loss
210
123
WLLWLLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32-29 | 10-6 | 18-17 | 2-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 29-32 | 6-11 | 22-19 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-23 | 5-7 | 29-14 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 6-4 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-32 | 4-3 | 30-27 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 210, Skatov got to the qualifications after beating Stefanos Sakellaridis 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Skatov had a good straight sets win against Sakellaridis (6-3 6-2). During the match Skatov scored 73 points vs Sakellaridis’s 52. Timofey was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Skatov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Timofey Skatov was very effective on serve to win 74% (29/39) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani broke Sakellaridis 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Skatov’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Bengaluru Challenger and the Shymkent 1 Challenger.
Timofey has an aggregate 32-29 win-loss record in 2026, 10-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Timofey has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tomic | Skatov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 17 |
| Pts | 98-82 | 73-52 |
| Total Points | 180 | 125 |
| Winners | 37 | 29 |
| %Winners | 38% | 40% |
Both Tomic and Skatov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Bernard Tomic dropped 1 set while Timofey Skatov hasn’t lost a set so far. Tomic has played 2 sets more than Skatov (4 vs 2). Therefore, Tomic played 10 games more than Skatov. Bernard scored 37 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Skatov bagged 29 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tomic | Skatov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 52/76 | 39/57 |
| %1st in | 68% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 37/52 | 29/39 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 56% |
Tomic blasted 3 aces . Skatov bagged 1 ace . Tomic won 71% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Skatov won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tomic | Skatov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 36% | 33% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Tomic lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Timofey broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Skatov conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tomic | |||
| Q1 Atmane |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 5-3 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 98-82 | 98-82 | |
| Total points | 180 | 180 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 52/76 | 52/76 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 37/52 | 37/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Skatov | |||
| Q1 Sakellaridis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 73-52 | 73-52 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/57 | 39/57 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 29/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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