Frances Tiafoe and Dominik Koepfer will play each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 2:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Frances Tiafoe who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Frances Tiafoe is the pick to win this match.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.63
Dominik Koepfer -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Dominik Koepfer
This will be the 2nd time that Frances Tiafoe and Dominik Koepfer face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Koepfer (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Koepfer won 6-4 5-7 6-1 in the 2nd round in Acapulco back in February 2024.
Frances Tiafoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-15 | 6-6 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 7-9 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 25, Francis will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in the Cagliari Challenger where he lost 6-1 7-5 to Coria in the 2nd round on the 2nd of May.
Tiafoe has an aggregate 10-10 win-loss record in 2024, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The American’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Houston.
Talking about his overall career, Tiafoe has an overall 351-243 record. He has a positive 107-62 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See his history.
Dominik Koepfer
14 - 10win/loss
66
49
LWLWLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-15 | 10-5 | 4-7 | 3-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-19 | 7-6 | 24-5 | 6-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-14 | 12-9 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-30 | 10-12 | 10-9 | 5-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 8-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 52, Dominik reached the 2nd round after beating Andrea Vavassori 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Koepfer had a good straight sets win against Vavassori (6-4 6-3). During the match Koepfer scored 71 points vs Vavassori’s 55. The German was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Koepfer blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Dominik Koepfer lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Koepfer put 63% of his first serves in, winning 85% (33/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. Koepfer broke Vavassori 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Canberra Challenger where he beat Jakub Mensik in the final 6-3 6-2.
The German has a composed 14-10 win-loss record in 2024, 1-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Rome
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Alexander ZverevZverev – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ben SheltonShelton – Pavel KotovKotov (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (7-5 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luciano DarderiDarderi – Mariano NavoneNavone (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Alexander BublikBublik (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian KordaSebastian – Flavio CobolliFlavio (7-6(6) 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
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