Stefanos Tsitsipas and Tommy Paul will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Open Parc for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.132
Tommy Paul -> 6.3
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Prediction and head to head Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Tommy Paul
This will be the 2nd time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Tommy Paul clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tsitsipas won 6-3 7-5 in the 2nd round in Washington back in 2019.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Tommy Paul – Washington 31-July-2019
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Ranked no. 5 (career-high), the Greek will start his run in Lyon after he played his last match in Rome where he lost 4-6 7-5 7-5 to Djokovic in the quarter on the 15th of May.
The Greek has a compiled 29-8 win-loss record in 2021, 12-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season 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 306-144 record. He has a positive 117-39 record on clay.
Previously in Lyon
Stefanos has never competed in this tournament before.
Tommy Paul
Ranked no. 53, Paul reached the 2nd round after defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Tommy had a good straight sets win against Tsonga (6-3 6-3). During the match Paul scored 62 points vs Tsonga’s 44. Tommy was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Paul scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tommy Paul was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 82% (28/34) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Tsonga 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Paul has a composed 10-10 win-loss record in 2021, 5-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Lyon
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Sebastian KordaKorda (6-3 1-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – David GoffinGoffin (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Richard GasquetGasquet (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Cameron NorrieNorrie (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Aljaz BedeneBedene (0-0) – H2H and prediction