Novak Djokovic and Yannick Hanfmann will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 6:30 pm on STADIUM COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Novak Djokovic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Novak Djokovic is the pick to win this match.
Novak Djokovic -> 1.104
Yannick Hanfmann -> 6.7

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Prediction and head to head Novak Djokovic vs. Yannick Hanfmann

This will be the 2nd time that Novak Djokovic and Yannick Hanfmann clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Djokovic won 6-3 6-3 in the 2nd round in Geneva back in 2024.

Highlights Novak Djokovic vs Yannick Hanfmann – Geneva 22-May-2024

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic

32 - 10win/loss

Hard
18-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
9-3
Grass
5-1
Rank
4
High
1
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-11 21-7 9-3 4-0 5-1 0-0
2024 37-9 15-5 16-3 1-0 5-1 0-0
2023 56-7 27-1 12-3 11-2 6-1 0-0
2022 42-7 2-1 14-4 19-2 7-0 0-0
2021 55-7 19-3 18-3 11-1 7-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 5, the Serbian got to the 3rd round after defeating Marin Cilic 7-6(2) 6-4.

In the 2nd round, Novak had a good straight sets win against Cilic (7-62 6-4). During the match, Djokovic scored 70 points vs Cilic’s 59. Novak was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.

Talking about the service games, Djokovic bagged 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Novak Djokovic was very effective on serve to win 84% (42/50) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Novak was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Cilic once.

Djokovic has a marvellous record in the last 10 years having won 85% of his matches (470-86). 18-6 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Djokovic has a composed 205-34 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title in Geneva where he overcame Hubert Hurkacz in the final 5-7 7-6(2) 7-6(2).

Novak has an overall 32-10 win-loss record in 2025, 18-6 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Shanghai

Shanghai
Djokovic's Record

Yannick Hanfmann

Yannick Hanfmann

36 - 23win/loss

Hard
12-8
I Hard
2-0
Clay
17-12
Grass
5-3
Rank
104
High
45
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 46-28 12-9 17-12 12-4 5-3 0-0
2024 24-33 8-11 12-15 2-3 2-4 0-0
2023 43-30 6-8 29-14 4-5 4-3 0-0
2022 34-26 4-3 21-16 7-4 2-3 0-0
2021 18-24 1-4 14-11 1-4 2-4 0-1
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Ranked no. 150, the German got to the 3rd round after defeating Shintaro Mochizuki 6-3 7-5, Jason Murray Kubler 6-2 6-3, Lorenzo Sonego 2-6 6-3 6-1 and Frances Tiafoe 6-7(9) 6-2 6-1.

In the 2nd round against Tiafoe, Yannick recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-79 6-2 6-1). During the match Hanfmann scored 105 points vs Tiafoe’s 89. The German was exceptionally aggressive to blast 50 winners.

About the serving games, Hanfmann submerged his opponent with 21 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Yannick Hanfmann was very effective on serve to win 71% (50/70) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The German broke Tiafoe 6 times after converting 33% of his break points (6/18).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Hanfmann started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Hagen Challenger where he defeated Guy Den Ouden in the final 3-6 6-2 6-2.

Yannick has a compiled 36-23 win-loss record in 2025, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.

Shanghai
Hanfmann's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

N.Djokovic
Y.Hanfmann
1h:54
1h:54
Time on court​
!
7h:33
7h:33
1h:54
1h:54
Last match​
!
2h:50
2h:50
1
1
Match played
!
4
4
23
23
Games Played​
90
90
2
2
Set played​​
10
10
70
70
Total points​
315
315
70
70
Avg point​
78.8
78.8
42
42
Winners
136
136
42
42
Avg Winners​
34
34
60%
60%
Ratio winners
43%
43%
-- Serve --
10
10
Aces
36
36
10
10
Avg Aces
9
9
2
2
Double Faults
6
6
2
2
Avg Double Faults
1.5
1.5
42/50
42/50
1st won total​
136/189
136/189
!
84%
84%
1st won %
!
72%
72%
13/23
13/23
2nd won total​
52/80
52/80
57%
57%
2nd won %
!
65%
65%
-- Break Points --
1/1
1/1
BP won
17/41
17/41
1/1
1/1
Avg BP won
4.3/10.3
4.3/10.3
!
100%
100%
Won
41%
41%
4
4
Conceded
11
11
4
4
Avg Conceded
2.8
2.8
0
0
Broken
5
5
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1.3
1.3
4
4
Saved
6
6
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Djokovic Hanfmann
Match played 1 4
Tot Set 2 10
Tot Games 23 90
Pts 70-59 315-252
Total Points 129 567
Winners 42 136
%Winners 60% 43%

Djokovic played 1 match while Hanfmann competed in 4 matches. Hanfmann started his run from the qualifications while Djokovic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Yannick Hanfmann conceded 2 sets while Novak Djokovic hasn’t dropped a set so far. Djokovic has played 8 set(s) less than Hanfmann (2 vs 10). Therefore, Djokovic played 67 games less than Hanfmann. Djokovic scored 42 winners (60% of the total points). On the other side, Hanfmann fired 136 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve Djokovic Hanfmann
Aces 10 36
Avg per match 10 9
1st in 50/73 189/269
%1st in 68% 70%
1st pts 42/50 136/189
%1st pts 84% 72%
2nd pts 13/23 52/80
%2nd pts 57% 65%

Djokovic fired 10 aces . Hanfmann fired 36 aces (9 per match). Djokovic won 84% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Hanfmann won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Djokovic Hanfmann
Won 1 17
Converted 1/1 17/41
% Converted 100% 41%
Conceded 4 11
Saved 4 6
% Saved 100% 55%
Times Broken 0 5

The Serbian broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. The Serbian extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 4 break points. The German broke his opponents 17 times with a 41% conversion rate. Yannick conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded.

Djokovic
R2
Cilic		 Total
Score 7-62 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 23
pts 70-59 70-59
Total points 129 129
Winners 42 42
%Winners 60% 60%
SERVE
Aces 10 10
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 50/73 50/73
% 1st in 68% 68%
1st pts 42/50 42/50
% 1st pts 84% 84%
2nd pts 13/23 13/23
% 2nd pts 57% 57%
Breaks
Won 1 1
Converted 1/1 1/1
Converted % 100% 100%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Hanfmann
Q1
Mochizuki		 Q3
Murray Kubler		 R1
Sonego		 R2
Tiafoe		 Total
Score 6-3 7-5 6-2 6-3 2-6 6-3 6-1 6-79 6-2 6-1
Tot Set 2 2 3 3 10
Tot Games 21 17 24 28 90
pts 76-58 60-42 74-63 105-89 315-252
Total points 134 102 137 194 567
Winners 30 24 32 50 136
%Winners 39% 40% 43% 48% 43%
SERVE
Aces 7 6 2 21 36
Double Faults 3 0 2 1 6
1st in 38/58 31/44 50/71 70/96 189/269
% 1st in 66% 70% 70% 73% 70%
1st pts 30/38 24/31 32/50 50/70 136/189
% 1st pts 79% 77% 64% 71% 72%
2nd pts 13/20 9/13 15/21 15/26 52/80
% 2nd pts 65% 69% 71% 58% 65%
Breaks
Won 3 4 4 6 17
Converted 3/8 4/8 4/7 6/18 17/41
Converted % 38% 50% 57% 33% 41%
Conceded 3 0 5 3 11
Saved 2/3 0/0 3/5 1/3 6
Saved % 67% – 60% 33% 160%
Times Broken 1 0 2 2 5

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

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