Tommy Paul and Arthur Fils will face off in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on SHOW COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tommy Paul who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tommy Paul is the pick to win this match.
Tommy Paul -> 1.5
Arthur Fils -> 2.59
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Prediction and head to head Tommy Paul vs. Arthur Fils
There is no head to head record between Tommy Paul and Arthur Fils since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tommy Paul
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 40-16 | 16-10 | 10-4 | 4-0 | 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 |
2020 | 21-14 | 12-6 | 5-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 12 (career-high), Paul reached the 3rd round after defeating Sebastian Ofner 6-3 6-0.
In the 2nd round, Tommy had a good straight sets win against Ofner (6-3 6-0). During the match, Paul scored 59 points vs Ofner’s 35. The American was very aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about the service games, Paul managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Tommy Paul was quite efficient on serve to win 89% (16/18) of his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Paul broke Ofner 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Paul has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (345-201). 26-11 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Paul has an aggregate172-99 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Paul’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Acapulco,the Aix En Provence Challenger and Eastbourne.
The American has an overall 41-25 win-loss record in 2023, 26-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Shanghai
Paul has never competed in this tournament before.
Arthur Fils
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 14-10 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 43-24 | 5-4 | 13-8 | 21-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 43-28 | 0-1 | 23-15 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 33-26 | 3-2 | 29-17 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 44 (career-high), Fils reached the 3rd round after beating Pavel Kotov 6-1 6-4 and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-2 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Fils had a good straight sets win against Davidovich Fokina (6-2 7-5). During the match Fils scored 65 points vs Davidovich Fokina’s 55. The French player was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Fils fired 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Arthur Fils lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Fils put 58% of his first serves in, winning 84% (27/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. Arthur broke Davidovich Fokina 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Arthur hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he overcame Joris De Loore in the final 6-1 7-6(4) and in Lyon where he overcame Francisco Cerundolo in the final 6-3 7-5.
Arthur has a compiled 36-19 win-loss record in 2023, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Paul | Fils |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 2 |
Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
Tot Games | 15 | 37 |
Pts | 59-35 | 126-102 |
Total Points | 94 | 228 |
Winners | 16 | 53 |
%Winners | 27% | 42% |
Paul played 1 match while Fils competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Paul has played 2 set(s) less than Fils (2 vs 4). Therefore, Paul played 22 games less than Fils. The American scored 16 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, Arthur blasted 53 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Paul | Fils |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 12 |
Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
1st in | 18/35 | 64/110 |
%1st in | 51% | 58% |
1st pts | 16/18 | 53/64 |
%1st pts | 89% | 83% |
2nd pts | 12/17 | 21/46 |
%2nd pts | 71% | 46% |
Paul recorded 4 aces . Fils fired 12 aces (6 per match). Paul won 89% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Fils won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Paul | Fils |
---|---|---|
Won | 5 | 8 |
Converted | 5/6 | 8/16 |
% Converted | 83% | 50% |
Conceded | 0 | 3 |
Saved | 0 | 1 |
% Saved | 0% | 33% |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Tommy broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Fils broke his opponents 8 times with a 50% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
Paul | |||
R2 Ofner |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
pts | 59-35 | 59-35 | |
Total points | 94 | 94 | |
Winners | 16 | 16 | |
%Winners | 27% | 27% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 18/35 | 18/35 | |
% 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
1st pts | 16/18 | 16/18 | |
% 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
% 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Fils | ||||
R1 Kotov |
R2 Davidovich Fokina |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-4 | 6-2 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 20 | 37 | |
pts | 61-47 | 65-55 | 126-102 | |
Total points | 108 | 120 | 228 | |
Winners | 26 | 27 | 53 | |
%Winners | 43% | 42% | 42% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
Double Faults | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
1st in | 32/55 | 32/55 | 64/110 | |
% 1st in | 58% | 58% | 58% | |
1st pts | 26/32 | 27/32 | 53/64 | |
% 1st pts | 81% | 84% | 83% | |
2nd pts | 10/23 | 11/23 | 21/46 | |
% 2nd pts | 43% | 48% | 46% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
Converted | 4/10 | 4/6 | 8/16 | |
Converted % | 40% | 67% | 50% | |
Conceded | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Saved | 0/1 | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 0% | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Head 2 Head
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