Stefanos Tsitsipas and Frances Tiafoe will square off in the 2^nd round of the Olympics for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on Centre Court. 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 -> 1.26
Frances Tiafoe -> 4.05

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Prediction and head to head Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Frances Tiafoe

This will be the 4^th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Frances Tiafoe play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Tiafoe won 6-4 6-4 6-3 in the 1^st round in at the Wimbledon back in June 2021.

Highlights Frances Tiafoe vs Stefanos Tsitsipas – Wimbledon 28-June-2021

Stefanos Tsitsipas

Ranked no. 4 (career-high), the Greek reached the 2^nd round after beating Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3 3-6 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Tsitsipas defeated Kohlschreiber (6-3 3-6 6-3). During the match, Tsitsipas scored 84 points vs Kohlschreiber’s 74. Tsitsipas was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Tsitsipas bagged 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Stefanos Tsitsipas was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (37/48) of his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Greek broke Kohlschreiber 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Tsitsipas has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 68% of his matches (318-147). 14-3 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tsitsipas has a composed119-63 record in the last 7 years on hard.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title in in Carlo where he beat Andrey Rublev in the final 6-3 6-3 and in in Lyon where he overcame Cameron Norrie in the final 6-3 6-3.

Stefanos has an aggregate 41-11 win-loss record in 2021, 14-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Olympics

The Greek has never competed in this tournament before.

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Tsitsipas's Record

Frances Tiafoe

Ranked no. 54, Francis got to the 2^nd round after beating Soon-Woo Kwon 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Francis had a good straight sets win against Kwon (6-3 6-2). During the match Tiafoe scored 67 points vs Kwon’s 46. Francis was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Tiafoe blasted 12 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Frances Tiafoe conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Tiafoe put 68% of his first serves in, winning 85% (29/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Francis broke Kwon 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Francis’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Nottingham 1 Challenger.

Tiafoe has an overall 21-15 win-loss record in 2021, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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Tiafoe's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Tsitsipas and Tiafoe played 1 match. At the moment, Stefanos Tsitsipas surrendered 1 set while Frances Tiafoe hasn’t conceded a set so far. Tsitsipas has played 1 set more than Tiafoe (3 vs 2). Therefore, Tsitsipas played 10 games more than Tiafoe. Stefanos scored 37 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Tiafoe made 29 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Tsitsipas managed to score 7 aces . Tiafoe fired 12 aces . Tsitsipas won 77% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Tiafoe won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Tsitsipas broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Stefanos conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Francis broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 12Main
• 1Chall
• 5Minor

• 0Slam
• 4Main
• 6Chall
• 1Minor

Stefanos
Tsitsipas

4:3

Frances
Tiafoe

Rank

12

High

3

3Hard0

1I.hard2

0Grass1

Rank

15

High

10

Win Loss

Tsitsipas

LWLLWLLWWW

Tiafoe

LLWLWWWWWL

2024 2023 2022

36 - 18

30 - 23

11-10

Hard

20-12

1-0

I Hard

2-2

22-6

Clay

5-6

2-2

Grass

3-3

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

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• Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – John MillmanMillman (6-4 6-7⁴ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Max PurcellPurcell (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Sumit NagalNagal (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (6-4 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Fabio FogniniFognini – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Liam BroadyBroady – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Jeremy ChardyChardy (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Marcos GironGiron – Kei NishikoriNishikori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (2-3) – H2H and prediction

Tsitsipas

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Tiafoe