Rafael Nadal and Jannik Sinner will square 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 3:00 pm on Center Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rafael Nadal who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rafael Nadal is the pick to win this match.
Rafael Nadal -> 1.23
Jannik Sinner -> 4.4
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Prediction and head to head Rafael Nadal vs. Jannik Sinner
This will be the 2nd time that Rafael Nadal and Jannik Sinner face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Nadal won 7-6(4) 6-4 6-1 in the quarter in at the French Open back in 2020.
Highlights Rafael Nadal vs Jannik Sinner – French Open 06-October-2020
Rafael Nadal
Ranked no. 3, the Spaniard will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Zverev in the quarter on the 7th of May.
The Spaniard has a 13-3 win-loss record in 2021, 9-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in in Barcelona where he overcame Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final 6-4 6-7(6) 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Rafael has an overall 1056-217 record. He has a positive 471-43 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, he won this tournament 9 times in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2018 and 2019. See his history.
Jannik Sinner
Ranked no. 18 (career high), the Italian reached the 2nd round after defeating Ugo Humbert 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Jannik had a good straight sets win against Humbert (6-2 6-4). During the match Sinner scored 67 points vs Humbert’s 54. Sinner was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Sinner wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Jannik Sinner was very efficient on serve to win 72% (21/29) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Humbert 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title in in Melbourne where he beat Stefano Travaglia in the final 7-6(4) 6-4.
Jannik has a 20-8 win-loss record in 2021, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2020. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
- 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
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
