Taylor Fritz and Andy Murray will play each other in the 3rd round of the Citi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Fritz who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taylor Fritz is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Fritz -> 1.37
Andy Murray -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Taylor Fritz vs. Andy Murray
This will be the 2nd time that Taylor Fritz and Andy Murray square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Fritz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Fritz won 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in Montreal back in 2022.
Highlights Taylor Fritz vs Andy Murray – Montreal 09-August-2022
Taylor Fritz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-23 | 22-10 | 15-7 | 6-4 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-24 | 35-11 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 24-8 | 5-3 | 9-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-22 | 20-13 | 4-5 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 11-9 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 9, Taylor reached the 3rd round after defeating Zachary Svajda 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Svajda (6-3 6-3). During the match, Fritz scored 60 points vs Svajda’s 43. Taylor was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fritz blasted 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Taylor Fritz conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 8 break points. Furthermore, Fritz put 60% of his first serves in, winning 85% (29/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. Taylor was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Svajda 3 times.
Fritz has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (337-209). 23-5 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Fritz has a composed 201-105 record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the year was winning the title in Australia where he beat Matteo Berrettini in the final 7-6(4) 7-6(6) and in Delray Beach where he beat Miomir Kecmanovic in the final 6-0 5-7 6-2 and in Atlanta where he defeated Aleksandar Vukic in the final 7-5 6-7(5) 6-4.
The American has a compiled 39-16 win-loss record in 2023, 23-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Andy Murray
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-13 | 5-6 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-18 | 13-10 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 11-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-20 | 12-11 | 2-0 | 5-5 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-16 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 12-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-4 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 44, the Brit reached the 3rd round after defeating Brandon Nakashima 7-65 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Nakashima (7-65 6-4). During the match Murray scored 78 points vs Nakashima’s 73. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Murray recorded 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Andy Murray conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 6 break points. Furthermore, Murray put 59% of his first serves in, winning 82% (40/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. Andy broke Nakashima once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Aix En Provence Challenger where he beat Tommy Paul in the final 2-6 6-1 6-2 and the Surbiton Challenger where he overcame Jurij Rodionov in the final 6-3 6-2 and the Nottingham Challenger where he overcame Arthur Cazaux in the final 6-4 6-4.
Andy has an aggregate 25-11 win-loss record in 2023, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Washington
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2006. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fritz | Murray |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 23 |
| Pts | 60-43 | 78-73 |
| Total Points | 103 | 151 |
| Winners | 29 | 40 |
| %Winners | 48% | 51% |
Both Fritz and Murray played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Fritz and Murray have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Fritz played 5 games less than Murray. The American scored 29 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Murray scored 40 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fritz | Murray |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 5 |
| 1st in | 34/57 | 49/83 |
| %1st in | 60% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 29/34 | 40/49 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 17/34 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 50% |
Fritz fired 8 aces . Murray managed to score 5 aces . Fritz won 85% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Murray won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fritz | Murray |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 1 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 1/2 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 8 | 6 |
| Saved | 8 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Taylor broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The American had a solid display on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 8 break points. The Brit broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. The Brit was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.
| Fritz | |||
| R2 Svajda |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-43 | 60-43 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 34/57 | 34/57 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 29/34 | 29/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 11/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Murray | |||
| R2 Nakashima |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 78-73 | 78-73 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 49/83 | 49/83 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 40/49 | 40/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/34 | 17/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 1/2 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Jeff WolfWolf – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Ugo HumbertHumbert (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Andy MurrayMurray (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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