Francisco Cerundolo and Aslan Karatsev will face each other in the 1/8 finals of the Swedish Open. The game will start on July 13 at 10:00 UK time.
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Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction One – Handicap (+3.5) for Karatsev – 1.52.
Bookmaker Ratings: Prediction Two – Total Games Over 22 – 1.87.
Cerundolo knocked Ruud out of the tournament, so he is unlikely to want to rest on his current achievements. Francisco really is in great form now and he can easily pass Karatsev, who has just started to get out of his playing crisis.
Both Cerundolo and Karatsev are showing quite a good level of tennis in Bastad, so it is unlikely that the upcoming match will end quickly.
Cerundolo has been the author of the biggest sensation of the week so far. He stopped Casper Ruud (6-4, 3-6, 7-5) in the second round. It was his first win against a top-10 player.
Francisco had a classy match against the Roland Garros finalist. Before the third set, many probably thought Casper would crush his opponent, but in the end, at 6:5, Cerundolo broke and stormed into the quarter-finals.
No doubt it was a surprise, but Ruud can now probably see why Rafa Nadal had problems in his recent match against Cerundolo at Wimbledon.
Oddly enough, Francisco is one of those Latin Americans who can be dangerous on absolutely any surface.
Cerundolo has won just twice in his last eight matches against the top 50.
Karatsev, meanwhile, won two consecutive matches for the first time since the Australian Open.
For Aslan, this is a really big event. The previous few months had been incredibly difficult, including psychologically.
Between the Australian Open and Swedish Open, he lost 15 of his 19 matches. This is a very disappointing statistic.
However, at the current tournament, Karatsev has played quite well so far. After beating Lorenzo Sonego (6-0, 2-6, 6-4), Aslan quietly beat Hugo Gaston (6-2, 6-4). In the match against Hugo, Aslan held his serve well, although his accuracy on the first ball was not as good as usual.
Karatsev has won his last four quarter-final bouts.
In 3 of Karatsev’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 1.95.
In the last five matches, Cerundolo has played two tie-breaks. We offer to bet on “Tie-Break – Yes” with odds of 2.30.
Type of Court – Clay
Speed of Court – 4/10
Cerundolo’s Rating – 39
Francisco Cerundolo Wins/Losses in 2022 – 27/19
Karatsev’s Rating – 40
Aslan Karatsev Wins/Losses in 2022 – 12/16
Francisco and Aslan will play their first head-to-head match.
The match will be played at Bastad Tennis Stadium, Bastad, Sweden.
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