Stefanos Tsitsipas and Marin Cilic will face off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on Pietrangeli. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefanos Tsitsipas who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefanos Tsitsipas is the pick to win this match.
Stefanos Tsitsipas -> 1.146
Marin Cilic -> 5.9
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Prediction and head to head Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Marin Cilic
This will be the 2nd time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Marin Cilic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Cilic won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Tokyo back in 2017.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Ranked no. 5 (career high), the Greek will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 7-6(4) 6-4 to Ruud in the 3rd round on the 6th of May.
The Greek has a 27-7 win-loss record in 2021, 10-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was winning the title in in Carlo where he overcame Andrey Rublev in the final 6-3 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Stefanos has an overall 304-143 record. He has a positive 115-38 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.
Marin Cilic
Ranked no. 43, the Croatian reached the 2nd round after defeating Alexander Bublik 4-6 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round against Bublik, Marin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-3). During the match Cilic scored 87 points vs Bublik’s 72. The Croatian was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Cilic bagged 18 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Marin Cilic was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (39/48) of his 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cilic broke Bublik 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Marin’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Singapore and Estoril.
The Croatian has a 9-7 win-loss record in 2021, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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LLLL Tennis Scores in Rome
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- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Christian GarinGarin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marin CilicCilic – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Andrey RublevRublev (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Hugo DellienDellien (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – John MillmanMillman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Rafael NadalNadal (0-1) – H2H and prediction
