Benoit Paire and Francisco Cerundolo will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Argentina Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:30 pm on COURT GUILLERMO VILAS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

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 -> 1.41
Benoit Paire -> 3

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Prediction and head to head Benoit Paire vs. Francisco Cerundolo

There is no head to head record between Benoit Paire and Francisco Cerundolo since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Benoit Paire

Ranked no. 29, the French player will start his run in Buenos Aires after he played his last match in Cordoba where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Coria in the quarter on the 26th of February.

Paire has a 1-4 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Benoit has an overall 484-381 record. He has a positive 225-155 record on clay.

Previously in Buenos Aires

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Buenos Aires
Paire's Record

Francisco Cerundolo

Ranked no. 137, Cerundolo got to the 2nd round after beating Joao Menezes 4-6 6-4 6-4, Guilherme Clezar 2-6 6-3 6-2, Agustin Velotti 6-4 7-5 and Federico Coria 6-4 7-5.

In the 1st round, Francisco had a good straight sets win against Coria (6-4 7-5). During the match Cerundolo scored 87 points vs Coria’s 73. Francisco was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Cerundolo managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Francisco Cerundolo lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cerundolo put 71% of his first serves in, winning 70% (38/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (9/22) on the 2nd serve. Cerundolo broke Coria 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Cerundolo’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Concepcion Challenger.

The Argentine has a 10-2 win-loss record in 2021, 9-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Buenos Aires

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019 and 2020. See his history.

Buenos Aires
Cerundolo's Record

Tennis Scores in Buenos Aires

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