Daniil Medvedev and Cristian Garin will square off 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 STADIUM COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Daniil Medvedev who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Daniil Medvedev is the pick to win this match.
Daniil Medvedev -> 1.077
Cristian Garin -> 8

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Prediction and head to head Daniil Medvedev vs. Cristian Garin

This will be the 4th time that Daniil Medvedev and Cristian Garin square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Medvedev won 6-2 6-1 7-5 in the 4th round in at the French Open back in 2021.

Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs Cristian Garin – French Open 06-June-2021

Daniil Medvedev

Daniil Medvedev

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Rank
9
High
1
LWWWWLWLLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 23-13 9-5 6-4 3-2 5-2 0-0
2024 46-21 28-9 11-5 1-5 6-2 0-0
2023 66-18 38-8 10-3 11-4 7-3 0-0
2022 45-19 26-8 3-2 8-6 8-3 0-0
2021 63-13 33-5 5-3 18-3 7-2 0-0

Ranked no. 3, the Russian will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 7-6(2) 7-6(2) to Sinner in the final on the 4th of October.

The Russian has a composed 59-13 win-loss record in 2023, 37-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was winning the title in Rotterdam where he defeated Jannik Sinner in the final 5-7 6-2 6-2 and in Doha where he beat Andy Murray in the final 6-4 6-4 and in Dubai where he beat Andrey Rublev in the final 6-2 6-2 and in Miami where he overcame Jannik Sinner in the final 7-5 6-3 and in Rome where he overcame Holger Rune in the final 7-5 7-5.

Talking about his overall career, Medvedev has an overall 483-193 record. He has a positive 218-69 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2019. See his history.

Shanghai
Medvedev's Record

Cristian Garin

Cristian Garin

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Rank
110
High
17
LWWLWWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 31-14 5-4 23-8 1-1 2-1 0-0
2024 21-24 3-6 13-14 1-1 4-3 0-0
2023 41-25 22-12 18-12 1-1 0-0 0-0
2022 18-23 4-5 9-11 1-4 4-3 0-0
2021 21-18 2-6 15-9 1-2 3-1 0-0

Ranked no. 98, Garin reached the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4 7-610.

In the 1st round, Christian had a good straight sets win against Kovacevic (6-4 7-610). During the match Garin scored 80 points vs Kovacevic’s 72. Garin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.

About the serving games, Garin recorded 6 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Cristian Garin was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (37/50) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Garin broke Kovacevic twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Christian’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Noumea Challenger and the Iasi Challenger.

Garin has a compiled 36-22 win-loss record in 2023, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Shanghai
Garin's Record

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