Stefanos Tsitsipas and Frances Tiafoe will play each other in the 2nd round of the Erste Bank Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 8:00 pm 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 -> 1.35
Frances Tiafoe -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Frances Tiafoe
This will be the 5th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Frances Tiafoe clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Tsitsipas won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Tokyo back in July 2021.
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Ranked no. 3 (career-high), the Greek got to the 2nd round after defeating Grigor Dimitrov 7-66 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Greek had a good straight sets win against Dimitrov (7-66 6-4). During the match, Tsitsipas and Dimitrov scored the same amount of points (69). However, the world no. 3 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Greek was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Tsitsipas managed to score 6 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Stefanos Tsitsipas was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (37/45) of his 1st serve and 59% (17/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Greek broke Dimitrov once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Tsitsipas has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 69% of his matches (332-152). 6-2 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Tsitsipas has an overall59-31 record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in in Carlo where he overcame Andrey Rublev in the final 6-3 6-3 and in in Lyon where he defeated Cameron Norrie in the final 6-3 6-3.
Stefanos has a compiled 55-16 win-loss record in 2021, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Vienna
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Frances Tiafoe
Ranked no. 49, Tiafoe got to the 2nd round after beating Alex Molcan 6-4 3-6 6-1, Lucas Miedler 6-75 6-4 6-3 and Dusan Lajovic 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Francis had a good straight sets win against Lajovic (6-4 6-4). During the match Tiafoe scored 71 points vs Lajovic’s 58. Tiafoe was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Tiafoe wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Frances Tiafoe was extremely efficient on serve to win 79% (30/38) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Francis broke Lajovic 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
His best result of the current year was winning the title in the Nottingham 1 Challenger where he defeated Denis Kudla in the final 6-1 6-3.
The American has an overall 35-24 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Vienna
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tsitsipas | Tiafoe |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 78 |
| Pts | 69-69 | 258-224 |
| Total Points | 138 | 482 |
| Winners | 37 | 112 |
| %Winners | 54% | 43% |
Tsitsipas played 1 match while Tiafoe competed in 3 matches. Tiafoe started his run from the qualifications while Tsitsipas had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Frances Tiafoe dropped 2 sets while Stefanos Tsitsipas hasn’t lost a set so far. Tsitsipas has played 6 set(s) less than Tiafoe (2 vs 8). Therefore, Tsitsipas played 55 games less than Tiafoe. The Greek scored 37 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, Tiafoe fired 112 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tsitsipas | Tiafoe |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 6.3 |
| 1st in | 45/74 | 145/232 |
| %1st in | 61% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 37/45 | 112/145 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 17/29 | 51/87 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 59% |
Tsitsipas scored 6 aces . Tiafoe fired 19 aces (6.3 per match). Tsitsipas won 82% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Tiafoe won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tsitsipas | Tiafoe |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 10 |
| Converted | 1/2 | 10/25 |
| % Converted | 50% | 40% |
| Conceded | 4 | 11 |
| Saved | 4 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Stefanos broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. The Greek pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. The American broke his opponents 10 times with a 40% conversion rate. Francis conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tsitsipas | |||
| R1 Dimitrov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 69-69 | 69-69 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 54% | 54% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 45/74 | 45/74 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 37/45 | 37/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/29 | 17/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 1/2 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Tiafoe | |||||
| Q1 Molcan |
Q3 Miedler |
R1 Lajovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-6 6-1 | 6-75 6-4 6-3 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 32 | 20 | 78 | |
| pts | 83-75 | 104-91 | 71-58 | 258-224 | |
| Total points | 158 | 195 | 129 | 482 | |
| Winners | 32 | 50 | 30 | 112 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 48% | 42% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 12 | 0 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 43/81 | 64/96 | 38/55 | 145/232 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 67% | 69% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 32/43 | 50/64 | 30/38 | 112/145 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 78% | 79% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/38 | 21/32 | 9/17 | 51/87 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 66% | 53% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 3/8 | 3/11 | 10/25 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 38% | 27% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 3/4 | 3/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 75% | 75% | 183% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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