Daniil Medvedev and Alexei Popyrin will face off in the 3rd round of the Miami Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:30 pm on Grandstand. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniil Medvedev who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Daniil Medvedev is the pick to win this match.
Daniil Medvedev -> 1.155
Alexei Popyrin -> 5.7

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Prediction and head to head Daniil Medvedev vs. Alexei Popyrin

This will be the 3rd time that Daniil Medvedev and Alexei Popyrin clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Medvedev won 6-4 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in at the Australian Open back in 2020.

Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs Alexei Popyrin – Australian Open 25-January-2020

Daniil Medvedev

Ranked no. 2 (career high), Medvedev reached the 3rd round after defeating Yen-Hsun Lu 6-2 6-2.

In the 2nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Lu (6-2 6-2). During the match Medvedev scored 59 points vs Lu’s 29. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about the service games, Medvedev managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Daniil Medvedev was quite effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Russian broke Lu 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Medvedev has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 69% of his matches (331-150). 11-1 on hard in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Medvedev has a 133-50 record in the last 9 years on hard.

His best result of the current season was winning the title in in Marseille where he defeated Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the final 6-4 6-7(4) 6-4.

Daniil has a 15-2 win-loss record in 2021, 11-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Miami

Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2019. See his history.

Miami
Medvedev's Record

Alexei Popyrin

Ranked no. 86, the Australian got to the 3rd round after beating Feliciano Lopez 6-4 7-64 and Reilly Opelka 6-4 6-2.

In the 2nd round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Opelka (6-4 6-2). During the match Popyrin scored 61 points vs Opelka’s 45. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Popyrin recorded 13 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alexei Popyrin was extremely effective on serve to win 82% (28/34) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexei broke Opelka 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alexei started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.

His best result of the year was conquering the title in in Singapore where he beat Alexander Bublik in the final 4-6 6-0 6-2.

Alexei has a 11-3 win-loss record in 2021, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Miami
Popyrin's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Medvedev Popyrin
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 4
Tot Games 16 41
Pts 59-29 128-104
Total Points 88 232
Winners 22 53
%Winners 37% 41%

Medvedev played 1 match while Popyrin competed in 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Medvedev has played 2 set(s) less than Popyrin (2 vs 4). Therefore, Medvedev played 25 games less than Popyrin. Medvedev scored 22 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Alexei made 53 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Medvedev Popyrin
Aces 9 22
Avg per match 9 11
1st in 26/43 66/120
%1st in 60% 55%
1st pts 22/26 53/66
%1st pts 85% 80%
2nd pts 10/17 32/54
%2nd pts 59% 59%

Medvedev blasted 9 aces . Popyrin struck 22 aces (11 per match). Medvedev won 85% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Popyrin won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Medvedev Popyrin
Won 5 6
Converted 5/8 6/9
% Converted 63% 67%
Conceded 4 8
Saved 3 6
% Saved 75% 75%
Times Broken 1 2

The Russian broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Medvedev surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Alexei broke his opponents 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Medvedev
R2
Lu
Total
Score 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 59-29 59-29
Total points 88 88
Winners 22 22
%Winners 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 9 9
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 26/43 26/43
% 1st in 60% 60%
1st pts 22/26 22/26
% 1st pts 85% 85%
2nd pts 10/17 10/17
% 2nd pts 59% 59%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/8 5/8
Converted % 63% 63%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 3/4 3
Saved % 75% 75%
Times Broken 1 1
Popyrin
R1
Lopez
R2
Opelka
Total
Score 6-4 7-64 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 23 18 41
pts 67-59 61-45 128-104
Total points 126 106 232
Winners 25 28 53
%Winners 37% 46% 41%
SERVE
Aces 9 13 22
Double Faults 5 1 6
1st in 32/66 34/54 66/120
% 1st in 48% 63% 55%
1st pts 25/32 28/34 53/66
% 1st pts 78% 82% 80%
2nd pts 20/34 12/20 32/54
% 2nd pts 59% 60% 59%
Breaks
Won 3 3 6
Converted 3/3 3/6 6/9
Converted % 100% 50% 67%
Conceded 5 3 8
Saved 3/5 3/3 6
Saved % 60% 100% 160%
Times Broken 2 0 2

Tennis Scores in Miami

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