Francisco Cerundolo and Malek Jaziri will face off in the quarter of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1 pm on Center Court. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.42
Malek Jaziri -> 2.875
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Malek Jaziri
There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Malek Jaziri since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Francisco Cerundolo
Ranked no. 235, Cerundolo got to the quarter after defeating Mathieu Perchicot 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Perchicot (6-4 6-3). During the match Cerundolo scored 63 points vs Perchicot’s 52. Francisco was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Cerundolo recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Francisco Cerundolo was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (28/35) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cerundolo broke Perchicot 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Cerundolo has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 72% of his matches (140-55). 12-8 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Cerundolo has a 132-51 win-loss record in the last 5 years on clay.
The Argentine’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Los Angeles.
Francisco has a 17-8 win-loss record in 2020, 12-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Sibiu Challenger
Francisco didn’t play in the Sibiu Challenger in 2019.
Malek Jaziri
Ranked no. 261, Malek got to the quarter after beating Kacper Zuk 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Malek had a good straight sets win against Zuk (6-4 6-2). During the match Jaziri scored 73 points vs Zuk’s 54. Jaziri was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Jaziri struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Malek Jaziri was extremely efficent on serve to win 73% (22/30) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Tunisian broke Zuk 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Jaziri has a 6-11 win-loss record in 2020, 3-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Sibiu Challenger
Jaziri didn’t compete in the Sibiu Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cerundolo | Jaziri |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 63-52 | 73-54 |
| Total Points | 115 | 127 |
| Winners | 28 | 22 |
| %Winners | 44% | 30% |
Both Cerundolo and Jaziri played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Cerundolo and Jaziri have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cerundolo played 1 game more than Jaziri. Cerundolo scored 28 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Jaziri struck 22 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cerundolo | Jaziri |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 30/54 |
| %1st in | 67% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 22/30 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 63% |
Cerundolo scored 2 aces . Jaziri blasted 2 aces . Cerundolo won 80% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Jaziri won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cerundolo | Jaziri |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 33% | 36% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Francisco broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Cerundolo was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 3 break points. Malek broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Malek conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cerundolo | |||
| R1 Perchicot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-52 | 63-52 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 35/52 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 28/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Jaziri | |||
| R1 Zuk |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 73-54 | 73-54 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/54 | 30/54 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 22/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 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 | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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