Marin Cilic and Jiri Vesely will square off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 2:00 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marin Cilic is the pick to win this match.
Marin Cilic -> 1.32
Jiri Vesely -> 3.52
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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. Jiri Vesely
This will be the 2nd time that Marin Cilic and Jiri Vesely face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Cilic won 7-5 6-1 in the 1st round in Madrid back in 2015.
Marin Cilic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-20 | 3-6 | 11-9 | 6-3 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 9-11 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 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 |
Ranked no. 24, the Croatian will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match in Doha where he lost 3-6 6-3 6-4 to Khachanov in the quarter on the 17th of February.
Cilic has an overall 8-4 win-loss record in 2022, 8-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Marin’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Talking about his overall career, The Croatian has an overall 663-353 record. He has a positive 239-137 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2009 and 2010. See his history.
Jiri Vesely
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-9 | 3-4 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 20-27 | 6-8 | 7-12 | 6-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-15 | 5-3 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 20-19 | 12-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-27 | 4-5 | 8-12 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 2-2 |
Ranked no. 121, the Czech reached the 1st round after defeating Hady Habib 6-1 5-7 6-3 and Alexei Popyrin 7-64 6-76 6-2.
In the qualifications, Jiri defeated Popyrin (7-64 6-76 6-2). During the match Vesely scored 105 points vs Popyrin’s 98. The Czech was extremely aggressive to blast 51 winners.
Talking about serving, Vesely managed to score 15 aces and he was not very solid on his 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Jiri Vesely lost the serve once. Furthermore, Vesely put 64% of his first serves in, winning 82% (51/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. Jiri broke Popyrin 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jiri started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Czech has an aggregate 7-6 win-loss record in 2022, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLWLLWLLWL Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Yuki BhambriBhambri (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Pavel KotovKotov (7-66 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-64 6-76 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Andrey RublevRublev (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Malek JaziriJaziri (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Richard BerankisBerankis (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Marin CilicCilic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexander BublikBublik (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (3-0) – H2H and prediction
