Francisco Cerundolo and Roberto Bautista Agut will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roberto Bautista Agut who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roberto Bautista Agut is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Bautista Agut -> 1.64
Francisco Cerundolo -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Roberto Bautista Agut
This will be the 2nd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Roberto Bautista Agut fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bautista-Agut (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bautista-Agut won 6-7(5) 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in Cincinnati back in 2022.
Francisco Cerundolo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-14 | 3-5 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-26 | 10-10 | 19-12 | 4-2 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-28 | 7-8 | 25-10 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-24 | 3-2 | 39-21 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 36-11 | 5-0 | 31-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, Cerundolo will start his run in Hong Kong after he played his last match in Paris where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Hurkacz in the 3rd round on the 2nd of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Cerundolo has an overall 278-136 record. He has a positive 28-23 record on hard.
Previously in Hong Kong
The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.
Roberto Bautista Agut
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-13 | 6-6 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-23 | 9-7 | 8-8 | 2-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-20 | 17-9 | 7-3 | 9-6 | 6-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-25 | 14-10 | 7-7 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-8 | 13-4 | 4-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 57, Roberto reached the 2nd round after beating Fabian Marozsan 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Marozsan (6-2 6-3). During the match Bautista-Agut scored 59 points vs Marozsan’s 41. Bautista-Agut was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Bautista-Agut fired 3 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Roberto Bautista Agut was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (27/38) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Bautista-Agut broke Marozsan 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Roberto has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Pavel KotovKotov – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-62 2-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Sebastian OfnerOfner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Liam BroadyBroady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-2) – H2H and prediction
