Taylor Fritz and Stefanos Tsitsipas will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:30 pm on Stadium Court. 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 Taylor Fritz who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taylor Fritz is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Fritz -> 1.6
Stefanos Tsitsipas -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Taylor Fritz vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
This will be the 7th time that Taylor Fritz and Stefanos Tsitsipas fight against each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Tsitsipas won 6-4 7-5 in the quarter in Perth sydney back in January 2026.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Taylor Fritz – Perth sydney 07-January-2026
Taylor Fritz
34 - 18win/loss
12
4
WLLLWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-18 | 19-11 | 0-2 | 4-2 | 11-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 53-23 | 31-12 | 3-4 | 6-5 | 13-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-23 | 23-10 | 15-7 | 6-4 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-24 | 35-11 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 24-8 | 5-3 | 9-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 12, Taylor got to the 3rd round after beating Matteo Arnaldi 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Fritz had a good straight sets win against Arnaldi (7-5 6-4). During the match, Fritz scored 80 points vs Arnaldi’s 67. Fritz was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about the service games, Fritz fired 9 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Taylor Fritz lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Fritz put 61% of his first serves in, winning 80% (35/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (12/28) on the 2nd serve. Fritz broke Arnaldi 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
ATP Shanghai - Taylor Fritz's projected path
Fritz has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (414-231). 19-11 on hard in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Fritz has a compiled 233-116 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the year was conquering the title in Washington where he beat Rafael Jodar in the final 7-6(2) 6-4.
Taylor has an aggregate 34-18 win-loss record in 2026, 19-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2024. See his history.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
36 - 21win/loss
43
3
WWLWWWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36-21 | 20-12 | 12-6 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 22-18 | 12-10 | 7-5 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-22 | 13-11 | 22-6 | 8-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-24 | 19-9 | 17-5 | 11-6 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 61-24 | 18-8 | 17-4 | 18-9 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 43, Stefanos got to the 3rd round after defeating Kimmer Coppejans 6-3 7-5 and Luciano Darderi 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Stefanos had a good straight sets win against Darderi (6-3 6-4). During the match Tsitsipas scored 63 points vs Darderi’s 50. Stefanos was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Tsitsipas made 16 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Stefanos Tsitsipas was exceptionally effective on serve to win 84% (32/38) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Stefanos broke Darderi twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Tsitsipas hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
ATP Shanghai - Stefanos Tsitsipas's projected path
His best result of the current season was winning the title in Gstaad where he defeated Raphael Collignon in the final 6-4 6-7(3) 6-3.
Stefanos has a compiled 36-21 win-loss record in 2026, 20-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fritz | Tsitsipas |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 40 |
| Pts | 80-67 | 127-96 |
| Total Points | 147 | 223 |
| Winners | 35 | 63 |
| %Winners | 44% | 50% |
Fritz played 1 match while Tsitsipas competed in 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Fritz has played 2 set(s) less than Tsitsipas (2 vs 4). Therefore, Fritz played 18 games less than Tsitsipas. Fritz scored 35 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Tsitsipas recorded 63 winners (50%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fritz | Tsitsipas |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 21 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 10.5 |
| 1st in | 44/72 | 76/114 |
| %1st in | 61% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 35/44 | 63/76 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 27/38 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 71% |
Fritz recorded 9 aces . Tsitsipas made 21 aces (10.5 per match). Fritz won 80% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Tsitsipas won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fritz | Tsitsipas |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 43% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Taylor dropped his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Stefanos broke his opponents 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Tsitsipas was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Fritz | |||
| R2 Arnaldi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 80-67 | 80-67 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 44/72 | 44/72 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 35/44 | 35/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/28 | 12/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Tsitsipas | ||||
| R1 Coppejans |
R2 Darderi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 19 | 40 | |
| pts | 64-46 | 63-50 | 127-96 | |
| Total points | 110 | 113 | 223 | |
| Winners | 31 | 32 | 63 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 51% | 50% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 16 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/57 | 38/57 | 76/114 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 31/38 | 32/38 | 63/76 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 84% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/19 | 12/19 | 27/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 79% | 63% | 71% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/5 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 40% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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