Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils will fight against each other in the 3^rd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 20^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 8:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.154
Gael Monfils -> 5.4

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Gael Monfils

This will be the 20^th time that Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils clash against each other. The head to head is 18-1 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 12-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Djokovic won 6-3 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Madrid back in 2022.

Highlights Novak Djokovic vs Gael Monfils – Madrid 03-May-2022

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic

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High
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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	37-9	15-5	16-3	1-0	5-1	0-0
2023	56-7	27-1	12-3	11-2	6-1	0-0
2022	42-7	2-1	14-4	19-2	7-0	0-0
2021	55-7	19-3	18-3	11-1	7-0	0-0
2020	41-5	26-1	11-1	4-3	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 2, the Serbian reached the 3^rd round after beating Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4 ret..

In the 2^nd round against Davidovich Fokina, Novak had a free pass after Davidovich Fokina retired on a 6-4 . scoreline.

Djokovic has a remarkable match record in the last 10 years having won 87% of his matches (522-79). 16-1 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Djokovic has an overall 241-33 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title in Adelaide where he beat Sebastian Korda in the final 6-7(8) 7-6(3) 6-4 and at the Australian Open where he overcame Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final 6-3 7-6(4) 7-6(5) and at the French Open where he beat Casper Ruud in the final 7-6(1) 6-3 7-5.

The Serbian has an aggregate 34-5 win-loss record in 2023, 16-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Cincinnati

Djokovic's Record

Gael Monfils

Gael Monfils

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Rank
55

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	25-21	15-11	3-6	2-2	5-2	0-0
2023	16-15	8-8	2-4	6-3	0-0	0-0
2022	14-7	13-5	1-1	0-1	0-0	0-0
2021	18-17	8-7	2-4	7-3	1-3	0-0
2020	16-7	7-3	0-3	9-1	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 211, Monfils got to the 3^rd round after beating Cameron Norrie 3-6 6-4 6-3 and Alex De Minaur 7-5 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Monfils had a good straight sets win against De Minaur (7-5 6-4). During the match Monfils scored 83 points vs De Minaur’s 72. The French player was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Monfils blasted 3 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Gael Monfils was quite effective on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 64% (23/36) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke De Minaur twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Monfils has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Gael has an aggregate 9-10 win-loss record in 2023, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Cincinnati

Monfils's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Djokovic played 1 match while Monfils competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Gael Monfils lost 1 set while Novak Djokovic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Djokovic has played 3 set(s) less than Monfils (2 vs 5). Therefore, Djokovic played 40 games less than Monfils. The Serbian scored 10 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, Monfils struck 54 winners (31%).

Serve Performance

Djokovic managed to score 3 aces . Monfils blasted 6 aces (3 per match). Djokovic won 83% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Monfils won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Novak broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Djokovic surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Monfils broke his opponents 7 times with a 35% conversion rate. Monfils conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

• 24Slam
• 100Main
• 3Chall
• 2Minor

• 0Slam
• 12Main
• 6Chall
• 1Minor

Novak
Djokovic

19:1

Gael
Monfils

Rank

5

High

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Rank

55

High

6

Win Loss

Djokovic

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2024 2023 2022

36 - 9

25 - 21

15-5

Hard

15-11

0-0

I Hard

2-2

16-3

Clay

3-6

5-1

Grass

5-2

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Alexander ZverevZverev – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Taylor FritzFritz – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (6-4 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Tommy PaulPaul – Ugo HumbertHumbert (6-1 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Jannik SinnerSinner (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximo Gonzalez/Andres MolteniGonzalez/Andres Molteni – Rajeev Ram/Joe SalisburyRam/Joe Salisbury (7-6⁴ 5-7 10-7) – See score progression
• Ivan Dodig/Austin KrajicekDodig/Austin Krajicek – Robin Haase/Karen KhachanovHaase/Karen Khachanov (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Ben SheltonShelton (7-6³ 7-6²) – See score progression
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Holger RuneRune (6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – Casper RuudRuud (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Borna CoricCoric (5-7 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Jordan ThompsonThompson (7-5 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Andrey RublevRublev (7-6¹⁰ 5-7 7-6³) – See score progression
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Nicolas JarryJarry (w/o) – See score progression
• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Holger RuneRune (6-4 2-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (6-4 ret.) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Max PurcellPurcell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (1-18) – H2H and prediction
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander ZverevZverev – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-9) – H2H and prediction
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (7-2) – H2H and prediction
• Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Tommy PaulPaul (1-2) – H2H and prediction

Djokovic

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Monfils