Tommy Paul and Sebastian Ofner will play each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 12:30 pm on SHOW COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tommy Paul who should win in 2 sets.
Tommy Paul -> 1.32
Sebastian Ofner -> 3.38
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Prediction and head to head Tommy Paul vs. Sebastian Ofner
There is no head to head record between Tommy Paul and Sebastian Ofner since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tommy Paul
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-13 | 13-6 | 12-4 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 45-20 | 17-12 | 10-4 | 8-2 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 29-13 | 5-6 | 3-5 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-27 | 21-12 | 2-6 | 9-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-23 | 12-12 | 9-7 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 12 (career-high), the American will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-2 6-1 to Medvedev in the 1st round on the 29th of September.
Paul has a composed 40-25 win-loss record in 2023, 25-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tommy’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Acapulco,the Aix En Provence Challenger and Eastbourne.
Talking about his overall career, Tommy has an overall 344-201 record. He has a positive 171-99 record on hard.
Previously in Shanghai
Paul has never competed in this tournament before.
Sebastian Ofner
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-19 | 0-5 | 16-10 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-25 | 6-8 | 8-13 | 1-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 60-31 | 12-10 | 37-13 | 7-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-18 | 4-4 | 21-12 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-24 | 4-6 | 4-8 | 7-6 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 49 (career-high), Sebastian got to the 2nd round after beating Juan Pablo Varillas 7-63 7-66.
In the 1st round, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Pablo Patino-Samudio (7-63 7-66). During the match Ofner scored 95 points vs Pablo Patino-Samudio’s 87. Sebastian was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Ofner managed to score 12 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Sebastian Ofner lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ofner put 57% of his first serves in, winning 82% (41/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (18/37) on the 2nd serve. The Austrian broke Pablo Patino-Samudio twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Salzburg Challenger where he defeated Lukas Neumayer in the final 6-3 6-2.
The Austrian has a composed 56-26 win-loss record in 2023, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Holger RuneRune (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Casper RuudRuud – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- 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
- 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