Rafael Nadal and Stefanos Tsitsipas will square off in the Round Robin of the the ATP Cup for the 8th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7 pm on Rod Laver Arena. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rafael Nadal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rafael Nadal is the pick to win this match.
Rafael Nadal -> 1.63
Stefanos Tsitsipas -> 2.33
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Prediction and head to head Rafael Nadal vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas
This will be the 8th time that Rafael Nadal and Stefanos Tsitsipas play each other. The head to head is 6-1 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Nadal won 6-3 6-4 in the semifinal in Rome back in 2019.
Rafael Nadal
Ranked no. 2,he will start his run in the ATP Cup after he played his last match in Adelaide where he overcame 7-5 6-4 to Thiem in the semifinal on the 29th of January.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Nadal won his last 7 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Rafael has an overall 1043-214 record. He has a positive 413-104 record on hard.
Nadal lost in the final to Novak Djokovic.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Ranked no. 6, Stefanos reached the semifinal after defeating Alex De Minaur 6-3 7-5.
In the previous match, Tsitsipas had a good straight sets win against De Minaur (6-3 7-5). During the match Tsitsipas scored 71 points vs De Minaur’s 56. The Greek was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Tsitsipas managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Stefanos Tsitsipas was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (28/38) of his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Greek broke De Minaur 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Stefanos has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Greek surrendered in the round robin to Nick Kyrgios.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in ATP Cup
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-75 6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- John MillmanMillman – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Benoit PairePaire (6-1 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrey RublevRublev – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Milos RaonicRaonic (7-64 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximo Gonzalez/Horacio ZeballosGonzalez/Horacio Zeballos – Aslan Karatsev/Andrey RublevKaratsev/Andrey Rublev (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (4-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NovakNovak – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – John MillmanMillman (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Rafael NadalNadal – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alexander ZverevZverev (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Guido PellaPella – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Kei NishikoriNishikori (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Benoit PairePaire (1-1) – H2H and prediction