Alex De Minaur and Rafael Nadal will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on PISTA RAFA NADAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rafael Nadal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rafael Nadal is the pick to win this match.
Rafael Nadal -> 1.56
Alex De Minaur -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Alex De Minaur vs. Rafael Nadal
This will be the 5th time that Alex De Minaur and Rafael Nadal fight against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, De Minaur won 3-6 6-1 7-5 in the R in Australia back in 2023.
Highlights Alex De Minaur vs Rafael Nadal – Australia 02-January-2023
Alex De Minaur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-4 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-21 | 19-6 | 10-5 | 11-9 | 7-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 26-12 | 4-5 | 10-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-25 | 19-10 | 9-6 | 12-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-25 | 10-10 | 4-5 | 3-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 11, De Minaur will start his run in Barcelona after he played his last match in Monte Carlo where he lost 7-5 6-4 to Djokovic in the quarter on the 12th of April.
The Australian has a composed 22-7 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Acapulco where he defeated Casper Ruud in the final 6-4 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, The Australian has an overall 340-194 record. He has a positive 58-47 record on clay.
Previously in Barcelona
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Rafael Nadal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-8 | 2-1 | 10-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-8 | 23-3 | 10-2 | 1-3 | 5-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-5 | 5-2 | 19-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 27-7 | 13-3 | 9-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 644, Nadal reached the 2nd round after defeating Flavio Cobolli 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Rafael had a good straight sets win against Cobolli (6-2 6-3). During the match Nadal scored 60 points vs Cobolli’s 44. Rafael was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Nadal couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Rafael Nadal was very efficient on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Rafael broke Cobolli 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
The Spaniard has a compiled 3-1 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Barcelona
Previously, he won this tournament 12 times in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Barcelona
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Nick HardtHardt (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Andrey RublevRublev (6-4 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Harold MayotMayot (7-63 6-76 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Borna CoricCoric (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Sebastian BaezBaez (5-7 7-68 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nicolas JarryJarry (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Casper RuudRuud (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Rafael NadalNadal (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
