Milos Raonic and Alexander Bublik will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the St. Petersburg Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 9:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Milos Raonic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Milos Raonic is the pick to win this match.
Milos Raonic -> 1.31
Alexander Bublik -> 3.58

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Prediction and head to head Milos Raonic vs. Alexander Bublik

There is no head to head record between Milos Raonic and Alexander Bublik since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Milos Raonic

Ranked no. 21, the Canadian got to the 2^nd round after beating Jeff Wolf 7-6⁵ 6-1.

In the 1^st round, The Canadian had a good straight sets win against Wolf (7-6⁵ 6-1). During the match Raonic scored 79 points vs Wolf’s 56. Milos was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Regarding the service games, Raonic overpowered his opponent with 21 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Milos Raonic was quite efficent on serve to win 78% (38/49) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Raonic broke Wolf twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Raonic has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 68% of his matches (365-169). 1-1 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Raonic has a 65-32 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Milos’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in New York.

Milos has a 15-7 win-loss record in 2020, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in St. Petersburg

Raonic didn’t compete in St. Petersburg in 2019.

Alexander Bublik

Ranked no. 52, the Kazakhstani got to the 2^nd round after beating Mackenzie Mcdonald 2-6 7-6² 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Mcdonald, The Kazakhstani recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-6² 6-4).-91) than Mcdonald. In fact, the world no. 21 won 91 points vs Mcdonald’s. That means that Bublik was more focused during the important points. Bublik was very aggressive to blast 49 winners.

Talking about serving, Bublik buried his opponent with 25 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Alexander Bublik lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Bublik put 62% of his first serves in, winning 84% (49/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (15/36) on the 2nd serve. Alexander was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Mcdonald once.

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Alexander’s best result of the current season was getting to the semi-finals in Marseille.

The Kazakhstani has a 15-14 win-loss record in 2020, 8-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in St. Petersburg

Alexander lost in the 1^st round to Casper Ruud.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Raonic and Bublik played 1 match. At the moment, Alexander Bublik conceded 1 set while Milos Raonic hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Raonic has played 1 set(s) less than Bublik (2 vs 3). Therefore, Raonic played 11 games less than Bublik. Raonic scored 38 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani bagged 49 winners (54%).

Serve Performance

Raonic blasted 21 aces . Bublik fired 25 aces . Raonic won 78% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Bublik won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.

How they played the important points

Milos broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. The Canadian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points. Alexander broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Milos
Raonic

2:0

Alexander
Bublik

Rank

177

High

3

2I.hard0

Rank

25

High

17

Win Loss

Raonic

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6 - 5

23 - 17

1-1

Hard

9-6

2-1

I Hard

5-1

0-1

Clay

5-6

3-2

Grass

4-4

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-1 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-5 6-7⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander BublikBublik – Milos RaonicRaonic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Andrey RublevRublev (0-1) – H2H and prediction

Raonic

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Bublik