Matteo Berrettini and Botic Van De Zandschulp will play each other in the 1st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COLISEUM. 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 Matteo Berrettini who should win in 2 sets.
Matteo Berrettini -> 1.28
Botic Van De Zandschulp -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Berrettini vs. Botic Van De Zandschulp
This will be the 4th time that Matteo Berrettini and Botic Van De Zandschulp square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Berrettini (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Berrettini won 3-6 6-4 6-4 in the Rubber 1 in Davis Cup, Group A, Bologna back in September 2024.
Matteo Berrettini
29 - 8win/loss
45
6
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-8 | 5-4 | 15-1 | 3-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 14-12 | 9-10 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-12 | 15-9 | 4-2 | 4-1 | 9-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-12 | 14-5 | 13-4 | 3-2 | 11-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-6 | 5-3 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 45,he will start his run in Tokyo after he played his last match in Davis Cup, Group A, Bologna where he defeated 3-6 6-4 6-4 to Van De Zandschulp in the Rubber 1 on the 15th of September.
Berrettini has a compiled 29-8 win-loss record in 2024, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in Marrakech where he overcame Roberto Carballes Baena in the final 7-5 6-2 and in Gstaad where he overcame Quentin Halys in the final 6-3 6-1 and in Kitzbuhel where he beat Hugo Gaston in the final 7-5 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Berrettini has an overall 323-156 record. He has a positive 135-73 record on hard.
Previously in Tokyo
Matteo has never competed in this tournament before.
Botic Van De Zandschulp
27 - 27win/loss
67
22
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-27 | 8-9 | 16-12 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-25 | 10-9 | 4-6 | 12-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-29 | 14-11 | 11-7 | 7-7 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 17-5 | 24-10 | 9-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 1-2 | 6-6 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 67, the Dutch got to the 1st round after beating Yosuke Watanuki 2-6 6-3 6-1 and Luca Nardi 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Nardi (6-2 6-3). During the match Van De Zandschulp scored 61 points vs Nardi’s 42. Botic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Van De Zandschulp struck 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Botic Van De Zandschulp lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Van De Zandschulp put 70% of his first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the 2nd serve. Van De Zandschulp broke Nardi 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Botic started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Van De Zandschulp’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Braunschweig Challenger and the Luedenscheid Challenger.
Van De Zandschulp has an overall 27-27 win-loss record in 2024, 8-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Borna CoricCoric (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Taro DanielDaniel (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Luca NardiNardi (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marin CilicCilic – Kei NishikoriNishikori (6-9) – H2H and prediction
- Marcos GironGiron – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Reilly OpelkaOpelka – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Jordan ThompsonThompson (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Tomas MachacMachac (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (4-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – (3-3) – H2H and prediction