Marin Cilic and Roberto Carballes Baena will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Tata Open Maharashtra for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 7:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.24
Roberto Carballes Baena -> 4.05

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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. Roberto Carballes Baena

There is no head to head record between Marin Cilic and Roberto Carballes Baena since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Marin Cilic

Marin Cilic

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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. 17, Marin will start his run in Pune after he played his last match in 1 where he lost 6-2 6-2 to De Minaur in the Rubber 2 on the 25th of November.

This will be the first match of the season on hard.

Talking about his overall career, The Croatian has an overall 687-370 record. He has a positive 247-143 record on hard.

Previously in Pune

Previously, he won this tournament twice in 2009 and 2010. See his history.

Pune
Cilic's Record

Roberto Carballes Baena

Roberto Carballes Baena

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Rank
133
High
49
LLWLWLWWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 19-24 7-10 11-12 1-1 0-1 0-0
2024 37-31 10-12 24-13 2-4 1-2 0-0
2023 25-29 3-8 19-14 1-4 2-3 0-0
2022 46-33 3-8 41-23 2-1 0-1 0-0
2021 41-30 3-5 33-20 3-3 2-2 0-0

Ranked no. 74, Carballes Baena reached the 2nd round after beating Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-1 7-5.

In the 1st round, Carballes Baena had a good straight sets win against Zapata Miralles (6-1 7-5). During the match Carballes Baena scored 76 points vs Zapata Miralles’s 63. Carballes Baena was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Carballes Baena wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Roberto Carballes Baena lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Carballes Baena put 68% of his first serves in, winning 68% (28/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the 2nd serve. Carballes Baena broke Zapata Miralles 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

The Spaniard has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Pune
Carballes Baena's Record

Tennis Scores in Pune

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