Reilly Opelka and Bjorn Fratangelo will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Truist Atlanta Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 8:00 pm on STADIUM COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Reilly Opelka who should win in 3 sets.
Reilly Opelka -> 1.74
Bjorn Fratangelo -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Reilly Opelka vs. Bjorn Fratangelo
This will be the 2nd time that Reilly Opelka and Bjorn Fratangelo square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Opelka (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Opelka won 7-5 4-6 7-6(2) in the final in the Knoxville Challenger back in 2018.
Reilly Opelka
Ranked no. 36, the American will start his run in Atlanta after he played his last match at Wimbledon where he lost 6-4 7-6(3) 6-2 to Koepfer in the 1st round on the 28th of June.
Reilly has an aggregate 8-12 win-loss record in 2021, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in Rome.
Talking about his overall career, Opelka has an overall 175-136 record. He has a positive 79-69 record on hard.
Previously in Atlanta
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2016 and 2019. See his history.
Bjorn Fratangelo
Ranked no. 190, Fratangelo reached the 2nd round after beating Elias Ymer 7-65 6-3, Jason Jung 6-3 1-6 7-5 and Andreas Seppi 7-5 7-65.
In the 1st round, Fratangelo had a good straight sets win against Seppi (7-5 7-65). During the match Fratangelo scored 82 points vs Seppi’s 77. Bjorn was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Fratangelo recorded 15 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Bjorn Fratangelo was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (41/52) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bjorn broke Seppi once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Bjorn’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Cleveland Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
Fratangelo has an aggregate 25-12 win-loss record in 2021, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Atlanta
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Denis KudlaKudla (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Benoit PairePaire – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-72 6-4) – See score progression
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Kevin AndersonAnderson (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Trent BrydeBryde (6-1 6-75 6-4) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-74 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- John IsnerIsner – Jeff WolfWolf (6-4 6-73 6-4) – See score progression
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Andreas SeppiSeppi (7-5 7-65) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Lloyd HarrisHarris (7-62 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (4-6 7-63 7-65) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Trent BrydeBryde (6-1 6-7(5) 6-4) – See score progression
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Kevin AndersonAnderson (7-6(4) 6-3) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-7(4) 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- John IsnerIsner – Jack SockSock (5-3) – H2H and prediction
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Jordan ThompsonThompson (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Steve JohnsonJohnson (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction