Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Maximilian Marterer will face off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on Court 13. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maximilian Marterer who should win in 5 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maximilian Marterer is the pick to win this match.
Maximilian Marterer -> 1.57
Prajnesh Gunneswaran -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Prajnesh Gunneswaran vs. Maximilian Marterer

This will be the 2^nd time that Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Maximilian Marterer play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Marterer (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Marterer won 6-2 7-6(2) in the qualifications in Cincinnati back in 2017.

Prajnesh Gunneswaran

Ranked no. 221, Gunneswaran got to the qualifications after defeating Daniel Elahi Galan 6-4 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Elahi Galan Riveros (6-4 6-4). During the match, Gunneswaran scored 56 points vs Elahi Galan Riveros’s 52. Gunneswaran was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Regarding the service games, Gunneswaran fired 6 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Prajnesh Gunneswaran was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gunneswaran broke Elahi Galan Riveros twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Gunneswaran has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (266-170). 1-0 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Gunneswaran has a compiled 180-93 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

Prajnesh has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Maximilian Marterer

Ranked no. 228, the German got to the qualifications after defeating Nino Serdarusic 3-6 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications against Serdarusic, Marterer recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Marterer scored 76 points vs Serdarusic’s 64. Marterer was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about serving, Marterer blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Maximilian Marterer was exceptionally effective on serve to win 86% (32/37) of his 1st serve and 68% (21/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Maximilian broke Serdarusic 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Marterer has a compiled 2-1 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2018. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Gunneswaran	Marterer
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	20	26
Pts	56-52	76-64
Total Points	108	140
Winners	28	32
%Winners	50%	42%

Both Gunneswaran and Marterer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Maximilian Marterer dropped 1 set while Prajnesh Gunneswaran hasn’t dropped a set so far. Gunneswaran has played 1 set(s) less than Marterer (2 vs 3). Therefore, Gunneswaran played 6 games less than Marterer. The Indian scored 28 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Marterer scored 32 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Gunneswaran	Marterer
Aces	6	4
Avg per match	6	4
1st in	36/58	37/68
%1st in	62%	54%
1st pts	28/36	32/37
%1st pts	78%	86%
2nd pts	14/22	21/31
%2nd pts	64%	68%

Gunneswaran made 6 aces . Marterer blasted 4 aces . Gunneswaran won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Marterer won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Gunneswaran	Marterer
Won	2	3
Converted	2/3	3/4
% Converted	67%	75%
Conceded	2	4
Saved	2	3
% Saved	100%	75%
Times Broken	0	1

The Indian broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Gunneswaran pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Maximilian broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Marterer conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Gunneswaran
	Q1 Elahi Galan Riveros	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	56-52	56-52
Total points	108	108
Winners	28	28
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	36/58	36/58
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	28/36	28/36
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	14/22	14/22
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	2/2	2
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Marterer
	Q1 Serdarusic	Total
Score	3-6 6-1 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	26	26
pts	76-64	76-64
Total points	140	140
Winners	32	32
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	37/68	37/68
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	32/37	32/37
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	21/31	21/31
% 2nd pts	68%	68%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

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• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Daniel MasurMasur (4-6 6-3 7-6(5)) – See score progression
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• Edward WinterWinter – Gilles SimonSimon (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Yuki BhambriBhambri – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
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• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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