Alexander Shevchenko and Diego Schwartzman will play each other in the qualifications of the Western & Southern Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Diego Schwartzman who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Diego Schwartzman is the pick to win this match.
Diego Schwartzman -> 1.727
Alexander Shevchenko -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Diego Schwartzman
There is no head to head record between Alexander Shevchenko and Diego Schwartzman since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alexander Shevchenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-34 | 11-12 | 19-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-35 | 8-13 | 6-12 | 7-7 | 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 |
Ranked no. 93, Shevchenko got to the qualifications after defeating Marton Fucsovics 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Shevchenko had a good straight sets win against Fucsovics (7-5 6-4). During the match, Shevchenko scored 78 points vs Fucsovics’s 63. Shevchenko was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Shevchenko scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 9 double faults. Alexander Shevchenko lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Shevchenko put 54% of his first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the 2nd serve. Alexander broke Fucsovics 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Shevchenko has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (215-126). 15-11 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Shevchenko has a compiled39-24 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Tenerife 1 Challenger where he beat Sebastian Ofner in the final 7-5 6-2 and the Madrid Challenger where he defeated Pedro Cachin in the final 6-4 6-3.
The Russian has an overall 30-24 win-loss record in 2023, 15-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Diego Schwartzman
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 11-15 | 6-7 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-28 | 10-13 | 4-12 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-26 | 9-7 | 21-10 | 0-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-23 | 18-10 | 12-8 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 98, Schwartzman got to the qualifications after defeating Marcos Giron 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Giron (6-4 6-4). During the match Schwartzman scored 78 points vs Giron’s 69. Diego was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Schwartzman struck 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Diego Schwartzman lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Schwartzman put 67% of his first serves in, winning 68% (32/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Giron 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Schwartzman has an aggregate 12-21 win-loss record in 2023, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019, 2021 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shevchenko | Schwartzman |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 20 |
| Pts | 78-63 | 78-69 |
| Total Points | 141 | 147 |
| Winners | 26 | 32 |
| %Winners | 33% | 41% |
Both Shevchenko and Schwartzman played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shevchenko and Schwartzman have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shevchenko played 2 games more than Schwartzman. Alexander scored 26 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Schwartzman fired 32 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shevchenko | Schwartzman |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 39/72 | 47/70 |
| %1st in | 54% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 32/47 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 10/23 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 43% |
Shevchenko recorded 1 ace . Schwartzman also scored 3 aces . Shevchenko won 67% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Schwartzman won 68% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 43% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shevchenko | Schwartzman |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/12 |
| % Converted | 45% | 33% |
| Conceded | 6 | 10 |
| Saved | 3 | 8 |
| % Saved | 50% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Shevchenko broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Alexander surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Diego broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Schwartzman conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Shevchenko | |||
| Q1 Fucsovics |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-63 | 78-63 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 39/72 | 39/72 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 26/39 | 26/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 18/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Schwartzman | |||
| Q1 Giron |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 78-69 | 78-69 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 47/70 | 47/70 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 32/47 | 32/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/23 | 10/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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