Marin Cilic and Tommy Paul will clash against each other in the quarter of the Adelaide International 2 for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marin Cilic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marin Cilic is the pick to win this match.
Marin Cilic -> 1.75
Tommy Paul -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. Tommy Paul
This will be the 2nd time that Marin Cilic and Tommy Paul play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Cilic won 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in Moscow back in 2021.
Highlights Marin Cilic vs Tommy Paul – Moscow 20-October-2021
Marin Cilic
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 8-8 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 32-21 | 16-10 | 9-5 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 33-23 | 6-9 | 5-5 | 13-7 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 14-12 | 7-5 | 2-2 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 29, Marin got to the quarter after defeating Jaume Antoni Munar Clar 7-66 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Marin had a good straight sets win against Munar Clar (7-66 6-2). During the match, Cilic scored 71 points vs Munar Clar’s 57. Marin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cilic made 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Marin Cilic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 88% (36/41) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marin broke Munar Clar twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Cilic has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 65% of his matches (325-173). 3-1 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cilic has an aggregate 126-73 match record in the last years on hard.
Marin’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Marin has an aggregate 3-1 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Tommy Paul
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 40-16 | 16-10 | 10-4 | 4-0 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-29 | 29-13 | 5-6 | 3-5 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
2022 | 39-27 | 21-12 | 2-6 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
2021 | 33-23 | 12-12 | 9-7 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 21-14 | 12-6 | 5-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 41 (career-high), the American reached the quarter after beating Frances Tiafoe 6-2 6-3 and Benjamin Bonzi 6-4 7-66.
In the 2nd round, Paul had a good straight sets win against Bonzi (6-4 7-66). During the match Paul scored 79 points vs Bonzi’s 68. Paul was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Paul blasted 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tommy Paul lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Paul put 68% of his first serves in, winning 70% (35/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the 2nd serve. Tommy broke Bonzi 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Tommy started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.
The American has an overall 4-1 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Cilic | Paul |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 2 |
Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
Tot Games | 21 | 40 |
Pts | 71-57 | 140-112 |
Total Points | 128 | 252 |
Winners | 36 | 59 |
%Winners | 51% | 42% |
Cilic played 1 match while Paul competed in 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Cilic has played 2 set(s) less than Paul (2 vs 4). Therefore, Cilic played 19 games less than Paul. The Croatian scored 36 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, The American recorded 59 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Cilic | Paul |
---|---|---|
Aces | 10 | 9 |
Avg per match | 10 | 4.5 |
1st in | 41/57 | 79/123 |
%1st in | 72% | 64% |
1st pts | 36/41 | 59/79 |
%1st pts | 88% | 75% |
2nd pts | 10/16 | 27/44 |
%2nd pts | 63% | 61% |
Cilic blasted 10 aces . Paul managed to score 9 aces (4.5 per match). Cilic won 88% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Paul won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Cilic | Paul |
---|---|---|
Won | 2 | 6 |
Converted | 2/7 | 6/14 |
% Converted | 29% | 43% |
Conceded | 3 | 3 |
Saved | 3 | 1 |
% Saved | 100% | 33% |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Cilic broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Marin quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 3 break points. Tommy broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Paul conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
Cilic | |||
R2 Munar Clar |
Total | ||
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Score | 7-66 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
pts | 71-57 | 71-57 | |
Total points | 128 | 128 | |
Winners | 36 | 36 | |
%Winners | 51% | 51% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 10 | 10 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 41/57 | 41/57 | |
% 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
1st pts | 36/41 | 36/41 | |
% 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Paul | ||||
R1 Tiafoe |
R2 Bonzi |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 7-66 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 23 | 40 | |
pts | 61-44 | 79-68 | 140-112 | |
Total points | 105 | 147 | 252 | |
Winners | 24 | 35 | 59 | |
%Winners | 39% | 44% | 42% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 2 | 7 | 9 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
1st in | 29/50 | 50/73 | 79/123 | |
% 1st in | 58% | 68% | 64% | |
1st pts | 24/29 | 35/50 | 59/79 | |
% 1st pts | 83% | 70% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 13/21 | 14/23 | 27/44 | |
% 2nd pts | 62% | 61% | 61% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Converted | 3/5 | 3/9 | 6/14 | |
Converted % | 60% | 33% | 43% | |
Conceded | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 1/3 | 1 | |
Saved % | – | 33% | 33% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Head 2 Head
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