Alex Michelsen and Mattia Bellucci will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Citi Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.48
Mattia Bellucci -> 2.66

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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Mattia Bellucci

There is no head to head record between Alex Michelsen and Mattia Bellucci since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Alex Michelsen

Ranked no. 60, Michelsen will start his run in Washington after he played his last match in Newport where he lost 6-7(4) 6-3 7-5 to Giron in the final on the 21^st of July.

The American has an overall 23-23 win-loss record in 2024, 11-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Newport.

Talking about his overall career, Alex has an overall 107-60 record. He has a positive 55-28 record on hard.

Previously in Washington

Alex has never competed in this tournament before.

Mattia Bellucci

Ranked no. 125 (career-high), Mattia got to the 2^nd round after beating Tristan Boyer 7-6(6) 6-2, Leandro Riedi 6-7(4) 6-3 7-6(4) and Mackenzie Mcdonald 7-6(4) 7-6(3).

In the 1^st round, Mattia had a good straight sets win against Mcdonald (7-6⁴ 7-6³). During the match Bellucci scored 90 points vs Mcdonald’s 75. Bellucci was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Talking about serving, Bellucci bagged 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Mattia Bellucci was quite effective on serve to win 79% (41/52) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Mcdonald twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Bellucci’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Nottingham 2 Challenger.

Bellucci has an aggregate 27-22 win-loss record in 2024, 11-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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