Tommy Paul and Jan-Lennard Struff will play each other in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on Court 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tommy Paul who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tommy Paul is the pick to win this match.
Tommy Paul -> 1.38
Jan-Lennard Struff -> 3.04

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Prediction and head to head Tommy Paul vs. Jan-Lennard Struff

This will be the 3rd time that Tommy Paul and Jan-Lennard Struff clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Paul (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Paul won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Paris back in 2021.

Tommy Paul

Tommy Paul

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Rank
20
High
8
LWWLWLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-13 13-6 12-4 3-1 1-2 0-0
2024 45-20 17-12 10-4 8-2 10-2 0-0
2023 46-29 29-13 5-6 3-5 9-5 0-0
2022 39-27 21-12 2-6 9-5 7-4 0-0
2021 33-23 12-12 9-7 12-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 35, the American will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Adelaide where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Draper in the 2nd round on the 11th of January.

The American has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Paul has an overall 305-177 record. He has a positive 147-89 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2020. See his history.

Australian Open
Paul's Record

Jan-Lennard Struff

Jan-Lennard Struff

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Rank
84
High
21
WWWWWLWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-28 7-11 5-8 12-6 3-3 0-0
2024 30-21 4-8 15-5 5-6 6-2 0-0
2023 45-24 21-9 14-7 5-6 5-2 0-0
2022 23-22 3-10 7-4 12-4 1-4 0-0
2021 26-30 8-11 11-8 6-8 1-3 0-0

Ranked no. 167, Jan-Lennard got to the 1st round after beating Alexander Shevchenko 6-4 6-4, Emilio Gomez 6-1 6-4 and Tristan Schoolkate 6-1 6-4.

In the qualifications, Struff had a good straight sets win against Schoolkate (6-1 6-4). During the match Struff scored 63 points vs Schoolkate’s 40. The German was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Struff struck 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Jan-Lennard Struff was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 83% (24/29) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The German broke Schoolkate 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Jan-Lennard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.

Jan-Lennard’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger.

Jan-Lennard has a composed 6-1 win-loss record in 2023, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.

Australian Open
Struff's Record

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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