Alexander Shevchenko and Lorenzo Giustino will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on PISTA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Shevchenko who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Shevchenko is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Shevchenko -> 1.44
Lorenzo Giustino -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Lorenzo Giustino
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Shevchenko and Lorenzo Giustino clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Shevchenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Shevchenko won 6-4 7-5 in the quarter in the Tenerife 1 Challenger back in January 2023.
Alexander Shevchenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-24 | 4-7 | 6-11 | 5-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-34 | 16-15 | 19-13 | 10-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-33 | 2-4 | 41-23 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-27 | 8-4 | 33-17 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-8 | 13-4 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 98 (career-high), Alexander will start his run in Barcelona after he won the title in the Madrid Challenger after beating 6-4 6-3 Cachin in the final.
Shevchenko has a composed 18-12 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Tenerife 1 Challenger where he overcame Sebastian Ofner in the final 7-5 6-2 and the Madrid Challenger where he beat Pedro Cachin in the final 6-4 6-3.
The Russian won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Shevchenko has an overall 203-114 record. He has a positive 151-78 record on clay.
Previously in Barcelona
Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.
Lorenzo Giustino
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-22 | 2-4 | 31-13 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-38 | 14-16 | 10-19 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-37 | 3-5 | 19-26 | 0-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-39 | 3-8 | 14-26 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-19 | 6-7 | 7-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223, Lorenzo got to the 1st round after beating Otto Virtanen 6-71 6-4 6-4 and Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-3 1-6 7-61.
In the qualifications, Lorenzo defeated Blancaneaux (6-3 1-6 7-61).During the match Giustino scored less points (3) than Blancaneaux. In fact, the world no. 98 won 102 points vs Blancaneaux’s. That means that Giustino was more focused during the important points. Giustino was very aggressive to blast 53 winners.
About the serving games, Giustino couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Lorenzo Giustino lost the serve 3 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Giustino put 68% of his first serves in, winning 66% (53/80) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (17/37) on the 2nd serve. Lorenzo broke Blancaneaux twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lorenzo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Lorenzo has a compiled 15-12 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Pablo AndujarAndujar (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Alexander BublikBublik (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Attila BalazsBalazs (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ben SheltonShelton – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pavel KotovKotov – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (6-75 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jozef KovalikJozef – Pedro Martinez PorteroPedro (7-5 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Emilio GomezGomez (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Feliciano LopezLopez (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Yibing WuWu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas JarryJarry – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Pavel KotovKotov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
