Jan-Lennard Struff and Matteo Arnaldi will face off in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. 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 Jan-Lennard Struff who should win in 3 sets.
Jan-Lennard Struff -> 1.81
Matteo Arnaldi -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Jan-Lennard Struff vs. Matteo Arnaldi
This will be the 2nd time that Jan-Lennard Struff and Matteo Arnaldi clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Struff (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Struff won 4-6 6-1 6-4 in the quarter in the Bergamo Challenger back in 2022.
Jan-Lennard Struff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-30 | 7-11 | 5-8 | 12-8 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-21 | 4-8 | 15-5 | 5-6 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-24 | 21-9 | 14-7 | 5-6 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-22 | 3-10 | 7-4 | 12-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-30 | 8-11 | 11-8 | 6-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 27, Struff will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 7-6(5) 6-3 to Ruud
in the 1st round on the 29th of September.Struff has a compiled 42-19 win-loss record in 2023, 21-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Struff’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Madrid and Stuttgart.
Talking about his overall career, The German has an overall 525-384 record. He has a negative 93-94 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2017. See his history.
Matteo Arnaldi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-26 | 11-14 | 7-6 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-26 | 17-13 | 10-9 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-26 | 21-15 | 23-7 | 4-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-35 | 9-3 | 37-20 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-24 | 2-1 | 51-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 42 (career-high), Matteo got to the 2nd round after beating Alexei Popyrin 4-6 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round against Popyrin, Matteo recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Arnaldi scored 91 points vs Popyrin’s 83. The Italian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Arnaldi made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Matteo Arnaldi was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (34/45) of his 1st serve and 52% (23/44) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The Italian broke Popyrin 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Tenerife 2 Challenger where he beat Raul Brancaccio in the final 6-1 6-2 and the Murcia Challenger where he overcame Borna Gojo in the final 6-4 7-6(4) and the Heilbronn Challenger where he defeated Facundo Diaz Acosta in the final 7-6(4) 6-1.
The Italian has a compiled 48-23 win-loss record in 2023, 20-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-4 3-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Holger RuneRune (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Casper RuudRuud – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yu Hsiou HsuYu – Lorenzo MusettiLorenzo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloFrancisco – Mackenzie McdonaldMackenzie (7-6(4) 7-6(5)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Daniel EvansEvans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Andrey RublevRublev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Rinky HijikataHijikata (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Christopher EubanksEubanks (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Nicolas JarryJarry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – H2H and prediction