Andrey Rublev and Federico Gaio will square off in the 2nd round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 11:00 am on PISTA RAFA NADAL. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrey Rublev who should win in 2 sets.
Andrey Rublev -> 1.079
Federico Gaio -> 8.7
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Prediction and head to head Andrey Rublev vs. Federico Gaio
There is no head to head record between Andrey Rublev and Federico Gaio since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Andrey Rublev
Ranked no. 7 (career high), the Russian will start his run in Barcelona after he played his last match in Monte Carlo where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Tsitsipas in the final on the 18th of April.
Rublev has a 24-5 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in in Rotterdam where he defeated Marton Fucsovics in the final 7-6(4) 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Andrey has an overall 299-172 record. He has a positive 76-50 record on clay.
Previously in Barcelona
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2015. See his history.
Federico Gaio
Ranked no. 138, the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Tommy Robredo 7-63 6-4 and Benoit Paire 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, Gaio had a good straight sets win against Paire (7-5 6-3). During the match Gaio scored 72 points vs Paire’s 49. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Gaio recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Federico Gaio was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 71% (17/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Paire 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Gaio’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Biella 1 Challenger.
Federico has a 16-14 win-loss record in 2021, 4-5 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Barcelona
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David GoffinGoffin – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Pablo AndujarAndujar (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Jeremy ChardyChardy (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Rafael NadalNadal – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Christian GarinGarin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Federico GaioGaio – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – David GoffinGoffin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Alexander BublikBublik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – H2H and prediction