Francisco Cerundolo and Alexandre Muller will face off in the 2nd round of the ASB Classic for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. 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 Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 3 sets.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.77
Alexandre Muller -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Alexandre Muller
There is no head to head record between Francisco Cerundolo and Alexandre Muller since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Francisco Cerundolo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-31 | 5-10 | 21-13 | 9-5 | 0-3 | 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. 22, Cerundolo will start his run in Auckland after he played his last match in Hong Kong where he lost 7-5 6-3 to Bautista-Agut in the 2nd round on the 4th of January.
Francisco has a composed 0-1 win-loss record in 2024, 0-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Francisco has an overall 278-137 record. He has a positive 28-24 record on hard.
Previously in Auckland
The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexandre Muller
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-32 | 11-14 | 20-12 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-13 | 3-2 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 79, the French player got to the 2nd round after beating Nino Serdarusic 6-3 6-4, Constant Lestienne 6-4 2-6 6-4 and Benjamin Bonzi 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Bonzi (6-3 7-5). During the match Muller scored 78 points vs Bonzi’s 57. Muller was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Muller recorded 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Alexandre Muller was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Muller broke Bonzi 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Muller has a compiled 3-1 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Arthur FilsFils – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Kiranpal PannuPannu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Gael MonfilsMonfils (6-4 6-76 7-64) – See score progression
- Marcel Granollers/Horacio ZeballosGranollers/Horacio Zeballos – Marcus Daniell/Ben McLachlanDaniell/Ben McLachlan (6-3 2-6 10-7) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Alex MichelsenMichelsen (0-6 7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Borna GojoGojo (1-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Jeff WolfWolf (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Marcos GironGiron (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Kiranpal PannuPannu (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur FilsFils – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Taro DanielDaniel – Max PurcellPurcell (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction