Alex De Minaur and Jan-Lennard Struff will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the ATP1000 Master in Monte-Carlo for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex De Minaur who should win in 3 sets.
Alex De Minaur -> 1.64
Jan-Lennard Struff -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Alex De Minaur vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
This will be the 4th time that Alex De Minaur and Jan-Lennard Struff face off. The head to head is 2-1 for De Minaur (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Struff won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Cincinnati back in 2020.
Alex De Minaur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56-24 | 30-11 | 10-5 | 13-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-21 | 19-6 | 10-5 | 11-9 | 7-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 26-12 | 4-5 | 10-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-25 | 19-10 | 9-6 | 12-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-25 | 10-10 | 4-5 | 3-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 19, the Australian got to the 2nd round after defeating Andy Murray 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Alex had a good straight sets win against Murray (6-1 6-3). During the match, De Minaur scored 56 points vs Murray’s 35. Alex was pretty aggressive to blast 12 winners.
Regarding the service games, De Minaur scored just 1 ace and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Alex De Minaur was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (12/15) of his 1st serve and 71% (20/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Murray 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
De Minaur has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (285-167). 1-0 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, De Minaur has an aggregate52-41 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
His best result of the season was winning the title in Acapulco where he defeated Tommy Paul in the final 3-6 6-4 6-1.
The Australian has a composed 13-6 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
Jan-Lennard Struff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-30 | 7-11 | 5-8 | 12-8 | 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. 100, the German got to the 2nd round after beating Juan Pablo Varillas 7-5 6-2, Emil Ruusuvuori 7-64 5-7 6-0 and Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Struff had a good straight sets win against Ramos-Vinolas (6-4 6-3). During the match Struff scored 66 points vs Ramos-Vinolas’s 51. The German was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Struff struck 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Jan-Lennard Struff was quite effective on serve to win 79% (30/38) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Struff broke Ramos-Vinolas 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Struff’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger,the Manama Challenger and the Phoenix Challenger.
Jan-Lennard has an overall 25-9 win-loss record in 2023, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2017 and 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | De Minaur | Struff |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 70 |
| Pts | 56-35 | 232-200 |
| Total Points | 91 | 432 |
| Winners | 12 | 84 |
| %Winners | 21% | 36% |
De Minaur played 1 match while Struff competed in 3 matches. Struff started his run from the qualifications while De Minaur had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Jan-Lennard Struff surrendered 1 set while Alex De Minaur hasn’t lost a set so far. De Minaur has played 5 set(s) less than Struff (2 vs 7). Therefore, De Minaur played 54 games less than Struff. The Australian scored 12 winners (21% of the total points). On the other side, Jan-Lennard bagged 84 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | De Minaur | Struff |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 18 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 6 |
| 1st in | 15/43 | 120/226 |
| %1st in | 35% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 12/15 | 84/120 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 20/28 | 59/106 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 56% |
De Minaur made 1 ace . Struff also recorded 18 aces (6 per match). De Minaur won 80% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Struff won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | De Minaur | Struff |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 14 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 14/22 |
| % Converted | 67% | 64% |
| Conceded | 0 | 16 |
| Saved | 0 | 9 |
| % Saved | 0% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 7 |
Alex broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Alex had a solid display on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The German broke his opponents 14 times with a 64% conversion rate. The German conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.
| De Minaur | |||
| R1 Murray | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 56-35 | 56-35 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 12 | 12 | |
| %Winners | 21% | 21% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 15/43 | 15/43 | |
| % 1st in | 35% | 35% | |
| 1st pts | 12/15 | 12/15 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/28 | 20/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Struff | |||||
| Q1 Pablo Patino-Samudio | Q3 Ruusuvuori | R1 Ramos-Vinolas | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | 7-64 5-7 6-0 | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 31 | 19 | 70 | |
| pts | 64-50 | 102-99 | 66-51 | 232-200 | |
| Total points | 114 | 201 | 117 | 432 | |
| Winners | 24 | 30 | 30 | 84 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 29% | 45% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | |
| 1st in | 32/58 | 50/106 | 38/62 | 120/226 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 47% | 61% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 30/50 | 30/38 | 84/120 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 60% | 79% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 31/56 | 13/24 | 59/106 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 55% | 54% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 7 | 3 | 14 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 7/11 | 3/5 | 14/22 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 64% | 60% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 10 | 5 | 16 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 5/10 | 4/5 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 50% | 80% | 130% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | |
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