Cameron Norrie and Marin Cilic will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 7:00 pm on GRAND STAND ARENA. 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 Cameron Norrie who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cameron Norrie is the pick to win this match.
Cameron Norrie -> 1.76
Marin Cilic -> 2.11

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Prediction and head to head Cameron Norrie vs. Marin Cilic

This will be the 2nd time that Cameron Norrie and Marin Cilic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Norrie (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they fought against each other, Norrie won 7-6(5) 7-5 in the semifinal in Estoril back in 2021.

Highlights Cameron Norrie vs Marin Cilic – Estoril 01-May-2021

Cameron Norrie

Cameron Norrie

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
27
High
8
LWWWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-29 11-15 14-7 10-4 4-3 0-0
2024 24-21 7-4 8-8 6-5 3-4 0-0
2023 36-25 14-12 18-7 1-4 3-2 0-0
2022 49-26 26-11 11-5 6-7 6-3 0-0
2021 56-25 25-11 16-5 9-7 6-2 0-0

Ranked no. 11, Norrie got to the 2nd round after beating Luca Nardi 6-4 6-4.

In the 1st round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Nardi (6-4 6-4). During the match, Norrie scored 65 points vs Nardi’s 54. Norrie was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Norrie recorded 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Cameron Norrie was pretty effective on serve to win 87% (26/30) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cameron broke Nardi twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Norrie has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (283-165). 5-3 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Norrie has an overall 45-30 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the current year was winning the title in in Delray Beach where he overcame Reilly Opelka in the final 7-6(1) 7-6(4).

The Brit has a composed 20-11 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Rome
Norrie's Record

Marin Cilic

Marin Cilic

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
75
High
3
LWWLWWWLWL
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. 23, Marin got to the 2nd round after defeating Matteo Arnaldi 6-1 6-4.

In the 1st round, Marin had a good straight sets win against Arnaldi (6-1 6-4). During the match Cilic scored 62 points vs Arnaldi’s 42. Marin was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Cilic scored 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marin Cilic was very effective on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Croatian broke Arnaldi 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

The Croatian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Adelaide.

The Croatian has an aggregate 12-10 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.

Rome
Cilic's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

C.Norrie
M.Cilic
1h:31
1h:31
Time on court​
1h:20
1h:20
1h:31
1h:31
Last match​
1h:20
1h:20
1
1
Match played
1
1
20
20
Games Played​
17
17
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
65
65
Total points​
62
62
65
65
Avg point​
62
62
26
26
Winners
24
24
26
26
Avg Winners​
24
24
40%
40%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
3
3
Aces
5
5
3
3
Avg Aces
5
5
3
3
Double Faults
2
2
3
3
Avg Double Faults
2
2
26/30
26/30
1st won total​
24/28
24/28
!
87%
87%
1st won %
!
86%
86%
16/25
16/25
2nd won total​
13/20
13/20
!
64%
64%
2nd won %
!
65%
65%
-- Break Points --
2/7
2/7
BP won
3/7
3/7
2/7
2/7
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
!
29%
29%
Won
43%
43%
4
4
Conceded
1
1
4
4
Avg Conceded
1
1
0
0
Broken
0
0
!
0
0
Avg Broken
!
0
0
4
4
Saved
1
1

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Norrie Cilic
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 17
Pts 65-54 62-42
Total Points 119 104
Winners 26 24
%Winners 40% 39%

Both Norrie and Cilic played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Norrie and Cilic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Norrie played 3 games more than Cilic. Norrie scored 26 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Marin scored 24 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Norrie Cilic
Aces 3 5
Avg per match 3 5
1st in 30/55 28/48
%1st in 55% 58%
1st pts 26/30 24/28
%1st pts 87% 86%
2nd pts 16/25 13/20
%2nd pts 64% 65%

Norrie bagged 3 aces . Cilic managed to score 5 aces . Norrie won 87% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Cilic won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Norrie Cilic
Won 2 3
Converted 2/7 3/7
% Converted 29% 43%
Conceded 4 1
Saved 4 1
% Saved 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Norrie broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Cameron pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 4 break points. Cilic broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Cilic was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Norrie
R1
Nardi
Total
Score 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 65-54 65-54
Total points 119 119
Winners 26 26
%Winners 40% 40%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 30/55 30/55
% 1st in 55% 55%
1st pts 26/30 26/30
% 1st pts 87% 87%
2nd pts 16/25 16/25
% 2nd pts 64% 64%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/7 2/7
Converted % 29% 29%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Cilic
R1
Arnaldi
Total
Score 6-1 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 62-42 62-42
Total points 104 104
Winners 24 24
%Winners 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 5 5
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 28/48 28/48
% 1st in 58% 58%
1st pts 24/28 24/28
% 1st pts 86% 86%
2nd pts 13/20 13/20
% 2nd pts 65% 65%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 1/1 1
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0

Tennis Scores in Rome

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