Marin Cilic and Dominic Thiem will play each other in the 2nd round of the Tel Aviv Watergen Open for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 9:00 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 3 sets.
Marin Cilic -> 1.51
Dominic Thiem -> 2.56
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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. Dominic Thiem
This will be the 5th time that Marin Cilic and Dominic Thiem square off. The head to head is 4-0 for Thiem (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Thiem won 6-4 6-3 6-3 in the 1st round in at the French Open back in 2020.
Highlights Dominic Thiem vs Marin Cilic – French Open 28-September-2020
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. 16, Marin will start his run in Tel Aviv after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-4 3-6 6-4 4-6 6-3 to Alcaraz in the 4th round on the 5th of September.
Marin has a composed 28-16 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
The Croatian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide,at the French Open and London.
Talking about his overall career, Marin has an overall 683-365 record. He has a positive 152-73 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Tel Aviv
The Croatian has never competed in this tournament before.
Dominic Thiem
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-14 | 2-3 | 4-9 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-30 | 1-5 | 18-15 | 8-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-19 | 2-2 | 8-11 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-9 | 5-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 25-9 | 14-4 | 6-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 173, Dominic got to the 2nd round after defeating Laslo Djere 5-7 7-63 6-4.
In the 1st round against Djere, Dominic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-63 6-4). During the match Thiem scored 111 points vs Djere’s 107. The Austrian was pretty aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about serving, Thiem fired 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Dominic Thiem was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (46/63) of his 1st serve and 59% (22/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Dominic broke Djere 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Dominic’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Rennes Challenger.
The Austrian has a composed 16-15 win-loss record in 2022, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Tel Aviv
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Jeff WolfWolf (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-2 6-70 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Marius CopilCopil (6-75 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Joao SousaSousa (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Laslo DjereDjere (5-7 7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Hugo GrenierGrenier (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Marius CopilCopil (6-7(5) 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-2 6-7(0) 6-4) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Jeff WolfWolf (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Joao SousaSousa (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Marin CilicCilic (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Liam BroadyBroady (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Edan LeshemLeshem – Yshai OlielOliel (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Maxime CressyCressy (0-0) – H2H and prediction