Daniil Medvedev and Botic van de Zandschulp will play against each other in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters. The game will start on August 17 at 01:30 UK time.
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Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction One – Handicap (-4) for Medvedev – 1.60.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction Two – Total Games Under 22 – 1.64.
Van de Zandschulp is an uncomfortable opponent for Medvedev. Both personal meetings between the tennis players have been tightly fought. However, we believe that the upcoming match will be quite quiet for Daniil. He is approaching the Cincinnati Masters in his optimal condition for play, so we expect a confident start to his performance.
Van de Zandschulp is certainly not an easy opponent and he could very well create problems for Medvedev in the upcoming match, as he has done it before in face-to-face encounters with Daniil. However, it seems to us that the upcoming match will end with a comfortable win for Daniil.
Medvedev failed at the Masters in Montreal last week. It turned out to be a complete disaster as Daniel lost his first match to Nick Kyrgios (7-6, 4-6, 2-6).
Medvedev took the first set on a hard-fought tie-break, but it was clear that he is having a hard time playing. The first reason was Nick’s phenomenal actions on his first serve.
As a result, Daniel dropped the second set and in the decisive set, he took only two games. In the third set, everything became clear after the first break by Kirhios. On that day it was almost unreal to win a game on Nick’s serve.
Medvedev took the title in Cincinnati in 2019 and last season, he managed to reach the semi-finals here.
Medvedev has won his last 4 matches as a favourite.
Botic, meanwhile, defeated Maxime Cressy (6-2, 4-6, 6-4) in the first round. Botic perfectly exploited the mistakes of Maxime, who also made 18 double faults.
The encounter was certainly not easy, but still, van de Zandschulp got five break points, which is not very often in matches against Cressy.
In Montreal, Botic went one round, beating Miomir Kecmanovic (6-1, 7-5), before losing to Cameron Norrie (1-6, 2-6).
At the Washington tournament, Botic also won only one match.
Van de Zandschulp has lost 7 of his last 10 matches against the representatives of the top 10.
In 3 of Van de Zandschulp’s last 5 matches, less than 9.5 games have been played in the first set. We offer to bet on “1st Set Games – Under 9.5” with odds of 1.78.
Type of Court – Hard
Speed of Court – 8/10
Medvedev’s Rating – 1
Daniil Medvedev Wins/Losses in 2022 – 31/11
Botic’s Rating – 24
Botic van de Zandschulp Wins/Losses in 2022 – 29/20
Medvedev leads with a score of 2-0 in the head-to-head encounters.
The match will be played at the Center Court, Lindner Family Tennis Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
We recommend checking out the odds for the Cincinnati Masters: Medvedev vs Botic at 22bet and MelBet.