Marin Cilic and David Goffin will face off in the 1st round of the Swiss Indoors Basel for the 11th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marin Cilic who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marin Cilic is the pick to win this match.
Marin Cilic -> 1.64
David Goffin -> 2.16

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Prediction and head to head Marin Cilic vs. David Goffin

This will be the 11th time that Marin Cilic and David Goffin face off. The head to head is 5-5 (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they squared off, Cilic won 6-1 7-6(4) in the qualifications in Basel back in October 2025.

Marin Cilic

Marin Cilic

26 - 18win/loss

Hard
3-6
I Hard
3-1
Clay
11-9
Grass
9-2
Rank
75
High
3
LWWLWWWLWL
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 29-20 3-6 11-9 6-3 9-2 0-0
2024 9-11 8-6 0-1 1-4 0-0 0-0
2023 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 32-21 16-10 9-5 4-5 3-1 0-0
2021 33-23 6-9 5-5 13-7 9-2 0-0
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Ranked no. 89, Cilic got to the 1st round after beating Adam Walton 6-4 6-1 and David Goffin 6-1 7-6(4).

In the qualifications, Marin had a good straight sets win against Goffin (6-1 7-64). During the match, Cilic scored 81 points vs Goffin’s 62. Cilic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cilic struck 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marin Cilic was very effective on serve to win 88% (35/40) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marin broke Goffin twice after converting 18% of his break points (2/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Croatian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.

Cilic has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (275-171). 3-1 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cilic has an overall 58-44 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Girona Challenger where he defeated Elmer Moller in the final 6-3 6-4 and the Nottingham 2 Challenger where he overcame Shintaro Mochizuki in the final 6-2 6-3.

The Croatian has an aggregate 26-18 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Basel

Basel
Cilic's Record

David Goffin

David Goffin

15 - 24win/loss

Hard
10-15
I Hard
1-4
Clay
4-4
Grass
0-1
Rank
118
High
7
LWLLWLLWWL
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 16-26 10-15 4-4 2-6 0-1 0-0
2024 47-28 24-11 7-7 9-7 7-3 0-0
2023 36-26 2-5 11-9 18-9 5-3 0-0
2022 34-29 7-13 14-5 9-9 4-2 0-0
2021 14-15 4-8 5-5 5-1 0-1 0-0
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Ranked no. 104, the Belgian got to the 1st round after beating Francisco Comesana 6-2 7-6(4) and Marin Cilic 6-1 7-6(4).

David has an aggregate 15-24 win-loss record in 2025, 1-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Basel

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2014. See his history.

Basel
Goffin's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Cilic
D.Goffin
2h:54
2h:54
Time on court​
3h:04
3h:04
1h:41
1h:41
Last match​
1h:41
1h:41
2
2
Match played
2
2
37
37
Games Played​
41
41
4
4
Set played​​
4
4
144
144
Total points​
128
128
72
72
Avg point​
64
64
54
54
Winners
64
64
27
27
Avg Winners​
32
32
38%
38%
Ratio winners
50%
50%
-- Serve --
19
19
Aces
13
13
9.5
9.5
Avg Aces
6.5
6.5
5
5
Double Faults
4
4
2.5
2.5
Avg Double Faults
2
2
54/59
54/59
1st won total​
64/83
64/83
!
92%
92%
1st won %
!
77%
77%
32/49
32/49
2nd won total​
26/50
26/50
!
65%
65%
2nd won %
52%
52%
-- Break Points --
5/19
5/19
BP won
3/14
3/14
2.5/9.5
2.5/9.5
Avg BP won
1.5/7
1.5/7
!
26%
26%
Won
!
21%
21%
5
5
Conceded
12
12
2.5
2.5
Avg Conceded
6
6
0
0
Broken
3
3
!
0
0
Avg Broken
1.5
1.5
5
5
Saved
9
9
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Cilic Goffin
Match played 2 1
Tot Set 4 2
Tot Games 37 21
Pts 144-101 66-52
Total Points 245 118
Winners 54 30
%Winners 38% 45%

Cilic played 2 matches while Goffin competed in 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Cilic has played 2 sets more than Goffin (4 vs 2). Therefore, Cilic played 16 games more than Goffin. The Croatian scored 54 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, David recorded 30 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve Cilic Goffin
Aces 19 7
Avg per match 9.5 7
1st in 59/108 35/55
%1st in 55% 64%
1st pts 54/59 30/35
%1st pts 92% 86%
2nd pts 32/49 13/20
%2nd pts 65% 65%

Cilic recorded 19 aces (9.5 per match). Goffin recorded 7 aces . Cilic won 92% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Goffin won 86% 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 Cilic Goffin
Won 5 3
Converted 5/19 3/9
% Converted 26% 33%
Conceded 5 1
Saved 5 0
% Saved 100% 0%
Times Broken 0 1

The Croatian broke his opponents 5 times with a 26% conversion rate. The Croatian pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points. David broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Goffin conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Cilic
Q1
Walton		 Q3
Goffin		 Total
Score 6-4 6-1 6-1 7-64
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 17 20 37
pts 63-39 81-62 144-101
Total points 102 143 245
Winners 19 35 54
%Winners 30% 43% 38%
SERVE
Aces 11 8 19
Double Faults 2 3 5
1st in 19/43 40/65 59/108
% 1st in 44% 62% 55%
1st pts 19/19 35/40 54/59
% 1st pts 100% 88% 92%
2nd pts 17/24 15/25 32/49
% 2nd pts 71% 60% 65%
Breaks
Won 3 2 5
Converted 3/8 2/11 5/19
Converted % 38% 18% 26%
Conceded 0 5 5
Saved 0/0 5/5 5
Saved % – 100% 50%
Times Broken 0 0 0
Goffin
Q1
Comesana		 Q3
Cilic		 Total
Score 6-2 7-64 6-1 7-64
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 21 20 41
pts 66-52 – 66-52
Total points 118 0 118
Winners 30 30
%Winners 45% 0% 45%
SERVE
Aces 7 0 7
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 35/55 / 35/55
% 1st in 64% 0% 64%
1st pts 30/35 / 30/35
% 1st pts 86% 0% 86%
2nd pts 13/20 / 13/20
% 2nd pts 65% 0% 65%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/9 / 3/9
Converted % 33% 0% 33%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0/ 0
Saved % 0% – 0%
Times Broken 1 1

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