Francisco Cerundolo and Alexander Shevchenko will fight 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 Saturday at 12:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

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 square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cerundolo (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

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

Francisco Cerundolo

Francisco Cerundolo

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Rank
21
High
18
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 38-25 12-8 21-11 5-4 0-2 0-0
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

Ranked no. 31, the Argentine 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.

Francisco has an aggregate 29-26 win-loss record in 2024, 5-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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

Talking about his overall career, The Argentine 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

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Rank
97
High
45
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 32-34 11-12 19-16 2-4 0-2 0-0
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

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

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

About the serving games, Shevchenko made 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexander Shevchenko was exceptionally 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. Shevchenko broke Ramanathan twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Alexander has an overall 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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