Matteo Arnaldi and Zachary Svajda will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:00 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matteo Arnaldi who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Matteo Arnaldi is the pick to win this match.
Matteo Arnaldi -> 1.32
Zachary Svajda -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Matteo Arnaldi vs. Zachary Svajda

This will be the 2nd time that Matteo Arnaldi and Zachary Svajda fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Arnaldi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Arnaldi won 6-3 6-2 6-1 in the 1st round in at the U.S. Open back in August 2024.

Highlights Matteo Arnaldi vs Zachary Svajda – U.S. Open 27-August-2024

Matteo Arnaldi

Matteo Arnaldi

28 - 23win/loss

Hard
16-12
I Hard
1-0
Clay
10-9
Grass
1-2
Rank
36
High
30
LWLWWLLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 28-23 16-12 10-9 1-0 1-2 0-0
2023 51-26 21-15 23-7 4-3 3-1 0-0
2022 50-35 9-3 37-20 4-11 0-1 0-0
2021 56-24 2-1 51-18 3-5 0-0 0-0
2020 17-9 16-4 0-1 1-3 0-0 0-1

Ranked no. 36, Matteo will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Paul in the 1st round on the 26th of September.

Arnaldi has an overall 28-23 win-loss record in 2024, 16-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Italian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Montreal.

Talking about his overall career, Arnaldi has an overall 215-131 record. He has a positive 73-40 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See his history.

Shanghai
Arnaldi's Record

Zachary Svajda

Zachary Svajda

34 - 30win/loss

Hard
26-19
I Hard
0-2
Clay
2-4
Grass
6-5
Rank
131
High
102
WWWLLLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 34-30 26-19 2-4 0-2 6-5 0-0
2023 46-24 28-8 2-6 10-6 6-4 0-0
2022 26-23 25-14 0-3 1-6 0-0 0-0
2021 24-13 24-12 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0
2020 6-6 5-3 1-2 0-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 131, Svajda got to the 2nd round after beating Tung-Lin Wu 6-0 6-1, Yan Bai 6-2 6-2 and Adrian Mannarino 6-3 1-6 6-0.

In the 1st round, Zachary defeated Mannarino (6-3 1-6 6-0). During the match Svajda scored 72 points vs Mannarino’s 61. The American was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Svajda bagged 5 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Zachary Svajda lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Svajda put 68% of his first serves in, winning 70% (28/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the 2nd serve. Zachary broke Mannarino 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Zachary’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Indian Wells 2 Challenger.

Zachary has an overall 34-30 win-loss record in 2024, 26-19 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Svajda has never competed in this tournament before.

Shanghai
Svajda's Record

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

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