Frances Tiafoe and Lorenzo Sonego will play each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 3:00 pm on SHOW COURT 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Frances Tiafoe is the pick to win this match.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.54
Lorenzo Sonego -> 2.48
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Lorenzo Sonego
This will be the 4th time that Frances Tiafoe and Lorenzo Sonego face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Sonego (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Sonego won 6-3 6-4 in the 3rd round in Miami back in March 2023.
Highlights Lorenzo Sonego vs Frances Tiafoe – Miami 27-March-2023
Frances Tiafoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-9 | 6-6 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 7-9 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 13,he will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in the Laver Cup where he defeated 7-5 6-3 to Hurkacz in the round robin on the 23rd of September.
The American has an aggregate 38-17 win-loss record in 2023, 21-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Australia where he overcame Lorenzo Musetti in the final 6-2 0-0 ret. and in Houston where he beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the final 7-6(1) 7-6(6) and in Stuttgart where he overcame Jan-Lennard Struff in the final 4-6 7-6(1) 7-6(8).
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 339-229 record. He has a positive 158-107 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017. See his history.
Lorenzo Sonego
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-14 | 4-8 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-31 | 10-12 | 9-7 | 9-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-29 | 7-9 | 8-11 | 10-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-24 | 9-11 | 9-4 | 6-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-15 | 0-5 | 7-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 59, Sonego got to the 2nd round after beating Philip Sekulic 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Sekulic (6-3 6-2). During the match Sonego scored 65 points vs Sekulic’s 45. Lorenzo was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Sonego struck 13 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Lorenzo Sonego was very efficient on serve to win 82% (31/38) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sonego broke Sekulic 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Sonego’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Umag.
Sonego has a compiled 24-25 win-loss record in 2023, 9-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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