Francisco Cerundolo and Alexander Shevchenko will play each other in the 2nd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 12:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.49
Alexander Shevchenko -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Alexander Shevchenko

This will be the 2nd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Alexander Shevchenko clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cerundolo (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Cerundolo won 6-2 3-1 ret. in the 2nd round in Indian wells back in March 2024.

Francisco Cerundolo

Francisco Cerundolo

29 - 26win/loss

Hard
5-9
I Hard
3-1
Clay
21-13
Grass
0-3
Rank
30
High
19
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 35-31 5-10 21-13 9-5 0-3 0-0
2023 39-26 10-10 19-12 4-2 6-2 0-0
2022 36-28 7-8 25-10 3-7 1-3 0-0
2021 44-24 3-2 39-21 0-0 2-1 0-0
2020 36-11 5-0 31-11 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 31, Francisco will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 7-6(4) 7-6(9) to Khachanov in the 2nd round on the 29th of September.

Cerundolo has a composed 29-26 win-loss record in 2024, 5-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the current year was winning the title in Umag where he defeated Lorenzo Musetti in the final 2-6 6-4 7-6(5).

Talking about his overall career, Francisco has an overall 307-162 record. He has a positive 33-32 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2023. See his history.

Shanghai
Cerundolo's Record

Alexander Shevchenko

Alexander Shevchenko

19 - 31win/loss

Hard
7-12
I Hard
5-4
Clay
6-12
Grass
1-3
Rank
78
High
45
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 22-35 8-13 6-12 7-7 1-3 0-0
2023 45-34 16-15 19-13 10-5 0-1 0-0
2022 50-33 2-4 41-23 7-6 0-0 0-0
2021 49-27 8-4 33-17 8-6 0-0 0-0
2020 24-8 13-4 11-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 58, Shevchenko reached the 2nd round after beating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-1 7-6(3).

In the 1st round, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (6-1 7-63). During the match Shevchenko scored 74 points vs Ramanathan’s 51. The Kazakhstani was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.

About the serving games, Shevchenko struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexander Shevchenko was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (32/39) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Kazakhstani broke Ramanathan twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Shevchenko has a compiled 19-31 win-loss record in 2024, 7-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.

Shanghai
Shevchenko's Record

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