Novak Djokovic and Salvatore Caruso will face off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1 pm on Campo Centrale. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.033
Salvatore Caruso -> 13.5
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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Salvatore Caruso
This will be the 2nd time that Novak Djokovic and Salvatore Caruso face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
Novak Djokovic
Currently world no. 1 Novak will start his run in Rome after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-5 def. to Carreno-Busta in the 4th round the 6th of September.
The Serbian has a 26-1 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in in ATP Cup where he overcame Rafael Nadal in the final 6-2 7-6(4) and in at the Australian Open where he defeated Dominic Thiem in the final 6-4 4-6 2-6 6-3 6-4 and in Dubai where he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final 6-3 6-4 and in New York where he defeated Milos Raonic in the final 1-6 6-3 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Novak has an overall 1038-216 record. He has positive 270-62 record on clay.
Last year in Rome
Djokovic had to surrender in the final to Rafael Nadal.
Salvatore Caruso
Ranked no. 87 (career high), Salvatore got to the 2nd round after defeating Tennys Sandgren 3-6 6-3 7-64.
In the 1st round against Sandgren, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 7-64). During the match Caruso scored 108 points vs Sandgren’s 104. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Caruso bagged 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Salvatore Caruso was very effective on serve to win 73% (43/59) of his 1st serve and 53% (31/58) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Salvatore broke Sandgren twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Caruso has a 9-11 win-loss record in 2020, 2-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Caruso lost in the quarter to Henri Laaksonen.
Head 2 Head
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WWLWLWLLWL Tennis Scores in Rome
- Henri Kontinen/Jan-Lennard StruffKontinen/Jan-Lennard Struff – Kevin Krawietz/Andreas MiesKrawietz/Andreas Mies (5-7 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Federico CoriaCoria – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-1 7-65) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Guido PellaPella (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (3-6 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Kyle EdmundEdmund (3-6 7-67 6-2) – See score progression
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Joao SousaSousa (7-5 7-62) – See score progression
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-0 7-62) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Facundo BagnisBagnis (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (3-6 6-3 7-66) – See score progression
- Marin CilicCilic – Alexander BublikBublik (6-74 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Kevin AndersonAnderson (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-3 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Gianluca MagerMager (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Borna CoricCoric – Christian GarinGarin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Benoit PairePaire (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Daniel EvansEvans (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Kyle EdmundEdmund (3-6 7-6(7) 6-2) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-0 7-6(2)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marin CilicCilic – David GoffinGoffin (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Dusan LajovicLajovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Rafael NadalNadal (0-5) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – John MillmanMillman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Federico CoriaCoria (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Kei NishikoriNishikori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
