Taylor Fritz and Max Purcell will play each other in the final of the Rothesay International for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taylor Fritz who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taylor Fritz is the pick to win this match.
Taylor Fritz -> 1.23
Max Purcell -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Taylor Fritz vs. Max Purcell
This will be the 2nd time that Taylor Fritz and Max Purcell face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Fritz (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they played each other, Fritz won 7-6(7) 7-6(4) in the 1st round in Basel back in 2023.
Highlights Taylor Fritz vs Max Purcell – Basel 25-October-2023
Taylor Fritz
31 - 12win/loss
5
5
WLWLLWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-22 | 22-10 | 15-7 | 4-3 | 10-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-24 | 35-11 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 24-8 | 5-3 | 9-7 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-22 | 20-13 | 4-5 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 11-9 | 2-3 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 13, Fritz reached the final after defeating Thiago Seyboth Wild 7-64 6-3, Juncheng Shang 7-65 7-65 and Aleksandar Vukic 7-65 7-64.
In the semifinal, Fritz had a good straight sets win against Vukic (7-65 7-64). During the match, Fritz scored 87 points vs Vukic’s 80. Fritz was extremely aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fritz made 15 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Taylor Fritz conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Fritz put 64% of his first serves in, winning 96% (46/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Fritz hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Fritz has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (365-219). 5-1 on grass in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Fritz has an aggregate 37-27 record in the last years on grass.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title in Delray Beach where he beat Tommy Paul in the final 6-2 6-3.
The American has an overall 30-12 win-loss record in 2024, 5-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Eastbourne
Max Purcell
17 - 18win/loss
103
40
LWLWLLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-24 | 10-16 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-28 | 45-17 | 2-3 | 5-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-29 | 21-15 | 5-8 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-14 | 13-9 | 0-1 | 4-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-12 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 94, the Australian got to the final after beating Jan Choinski 7-64 6-4, Henry Searle 7-66 6-4, Laslo Djere 6-1 4-6 6-3, Lorenzo Sonego 6-4 6-4, Miomir Kecmanovic 6-3 7-64 and Billy Harris 6-4 4-6 6-4.
In the semifinal, Max defeated Harris (6-4 4-6 6-4). During the match Purcell scored 97 points vs Harris’s 86. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about serving, Purcell recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Max Purcell was quite effective on serve to win 76% (42/55) of his 1st serve and 70% (19/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Max broke Harris twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Max started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Max’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Eastbourne.
The Australian has an overall 17-17 win-loss record in 2024, 8-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Eastbourne
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fritz | Purcell |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 14 |
| Tot Games | 74 | 144 |
| Pts | 240-204 | 486-416 |
| Total Points | 444 | 902 |
| Winners | 138 | 207 |
| %Winners | 58% | 43% |
Fritz played 3 matches while Purcell competed in 6 matches. Purcell started his run from the qualifications while Fritz had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Max Purcell dropped 2 sets while Taylor Fritz hasn’t dropped a set so far. Fritz has played 8 set(s) less than Purcell (6 vs 14). Therefore, Fritz played 70 games less than Purcell. Fritz scored 138 winners (58% of the total points). On the other side, Purcell made 207 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fritz | Purcell |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 50 | 45 |
| Avg per match | 16.7 | 7.5 |
| 1st in | 146/203 | 267/418 |
| %1st in | 72% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 138/146 | 207/267 |
| %1st pts | 95% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 31/57 | 86/151 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 57% |
Fritz made 50 aces (16.7 per match). Purcell struck 45 aces (7.5 per match). Fritz won 95% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Purcell won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fritz | Purcell |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 17 |
| Converted | 1/12 | 17/51 |
| % Converted | 8% | 33% |
| Conceded | 5 | 24 |
| Saved | 5 | 16 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 8 |
Taylor broke his opponents once with a 8% conversion rate. Taylor extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. Max broke his opponents 17 times with a 33% conversion rate. Purcell conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Fritz | |||||
| R2 Seyboth |
1/4 Shang |
1/2 Vukic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-3 | 7-65 7-65 | 7-65 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 26 | 26 | 74 | |
| pts | 67-48 | 86-76 | 87-80 | 240-204 | |
| Total points | 115 | 162 | 167 | 444 | |
| Winners | 42 | 50 | 46 | 138 | |
| %Winners | 63% | 58% | 53% | 58% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 15 | 20 | 15 | 50 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 44/54 | 54/74 | 48/75 | 146/203 | |
| % 1st in | 81% | 73% | 64% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 42/44 | 50/54 | 46/48 | 138/146 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 93% | 96% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/10 | 11/20 | 13/27 | 31/57 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 55% | 48% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 1/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 0% | 0% | 8% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 4/4 | 1/1 | 5 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 100% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Purcell | ||||||||
| Q1 Choinski |
Q3 Searle |
R1 Djere |
R2 Sonego |
1/4 Kecmanovic |
1/2 Harris |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-4 | 7-66 6-4 | 6-1 4-6 6-3 | 6-4 6-4 | 6-3 7-64 | 6-4 4-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 14 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | 26 | 20 | 22 | 30 | 144 | |
| pts | 88-77 | 76-67 | 91-73 | 67-55 | 67-58 | 97-86 | 486-416 | |
| Total points | 165 | 143 | 164 | 122 | 125 | 183 | 902 | |
| Winners | 35 | 30 | 38 | 27 | 35 | 42 | 207 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 39% | 42% | 40% | 52% | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||||||
| Aces | 13 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 45 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 47/72 | 37/65 | 51/76 | 31/54 | 46/69 | 55/82 | 267/418 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 57% | 67% | 57% | 67% | 67% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 35/47 | 30/37 | 38/51 | 27/31 | 35/46 | 42/55 | 207/267 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 81% | 75% | 87% | 76% | 76% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/25 | 17/28 | 13/25 | 12/23 | 13/23 | 19/27 | 86/151 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 61% | 52% | 52% | 57% | 70% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 17 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 2/5 | 5/12 | 3/11 | 2/2 | 2/9 | 17/51 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 40% | 42% | 27% | 100% | 22% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 24 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 1/2 | 5/7 | 2/3 | 1/2 | 3/4 | 16 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 50% | 71% | 67% | 50% | 75% | 127% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
Head 2 Head
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