Carlos Alcaraz and Marin Cilic will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Miami Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Alcaraz who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Carlos Alcaraz is the pick to win this match.
Carlos Alcaraz -> 1.194
Marin Cilic -> 4.9
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Prediction and head to head Carlos Alcaraz vs. Marin Cilic
This will be the 2nd time that Carlos Alcaraz and Marin Cilic fight against each other. 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 competed against each other, Cilic won 6-3 1-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Estoril back in 2021.
Highlights Marin Cilic vs Carlos Alcaraz – Estoril 27-April-2021
Carlos Alcaraz
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 50-9 | 21-4 | 17-4 | 4-0 | 8-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 65-12 | 26-6 | 25-3 | 2-3 | 12-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 57-13 | 21-4 | 27-4 | 6-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 48-19 | 15-8 | 22-7 | 10-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 39-7 | 10-0 | 29-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 16 (career-high), the Spaniard reached the 3rd round after beating Marton Fucsovics 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Alcaraz had a good straight sets win against Fucsovics (6-3 6-2). During the match, Alcaraz scored 64 points vs Fucsovics’s 49. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Alcaraz managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Carlos Alcaraz was very efficient on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alcaraz broke Fucsovics 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Alcaraz has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 76% of his matches (124-40). 7-2 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Alcaraz has an aggregate35-12 record in the last 5 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in in Rio de Janeiro where he overcame Diego Sebastian Schwartzman in the final 6-4 6-2.
Alcaraz has an overall 13-2 win-loss record in 2022, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
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. 23, Marin got to the 3rd round after defeating Alexei Popyrin 6-0 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Marin had a good straight sets win against Popyrin (6-0 6-3). During the match Cilic scored 49 points vs Popyrin’s 29. Cilic was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Cilic recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marin Cilic was pretty effective on serve to win 85% (22/26) 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. The Croatian broke Popyrin 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Marin’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.
Marin has a composed 9-6 win-loss record in 2022, 9-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Miami
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2013. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Alcaraz | Cilic |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 17 | 15 |
Pts | 64-49 | 49-29 |
Total Points | 113 | 78 |
Winners | 29 | 22 |
%Winners | 45% | 45% |
Both Alcaraz and Cilic played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Alcaraz and Cilic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Alcaraz played 2 games more than Cilic. Alcaraz scored 29 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian bagged 22 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Alcaraz | Cilic |
---|---|---|
Aces | 2 | 6 |
Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
1st in | 35/55 | 26/42 |
%1st in | 64% | 62% |
1st pts | 29/35 | 22/26 |
%1st pts | 83% | 85% |
2nd pts | 11/20 | 10/16 |
%2nd pts | 55% | 63% |
Alcaraz scored 2 aces . Cilic scored 6 aces . Alcaraz won 83% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Cilic won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Alcaraz | Cilic |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 4 |
Converted | 3/6 | 4/5 |
% Converted | 50% | 80% |
Conceded | 3 | 0 |
Saved | 3 | 0 |
% Saved | 100% | 0% |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The Spaniard broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Spaniard pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 3 break points. Cilic broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Croatian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
Alcaraz | |||
R2 Fucsovics |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
pts | 64-49 | 64-49 | |
Total points | 113 | 113 | |
Winners | 29 | 29 | |
%Winners | 45% | 45% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 35/55 | 35/55 | |
% 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
% 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Cilic | |||
R2 Popyrin |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
pts | 49-29 | 49-29 | |
Total points | 78 | 78 | |
Winners | 22 | 22 | |
%Winners | 45% | 45% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 6 | 6 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 26/42 | 26/42 | |
% 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
% 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
2nd pts | 10/16 | 10/16 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
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