World number seven Stefanos Tsitsipas will face the 128th-ranked Dominic Stricker in the second round of the 2023 US Open on Wednesday, August 30. Get the predictions and odds of this Stefanos Tsitsipas v Dominic Stricker match along with its preview, head to head, and tips here.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas v Dominic Stricker Head to Head
Their only previous meeting came at the 2022 Stuttgart Open in which Tsitsipas had won in straight sets.
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Tsitsipas Has No Trouble against Raonic
Milos Raonic hasn’t played a lot of tennis over the last two years but his comeback to the sport had been a reasonably solid one. Once ranked three in the world, he was expected to make another former world number three’s life on court difficult but Tsitsipas showed he was far better on the day with a straight-set win.
Tsitsipas came away a 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win against Raonic in a match lasting less than two hours in the end.
And while the Greek number one was broken once and hit just 25 winners to the 32 his opponent got on his racquet, he also had just 20 unforced errors to him as opposed to 48 for Raonic.
And that’s where the match swung in favour of Tsitsipas as he bettered his last US Open’s showing in a jiffy. And now, as he faces a player who has never been ranked inside the top 100 in his career, he could make it two wins in a row with ease – as he starts off a 1/7 underdog (with bet365).
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Qualifier Stricker Stuns Popyrin
Alexei Popyrin has been having a bit of run this season with the Aussie entering the US Open ranked just a spot behind his career-best ranking of 40th in the world. Not surprisingly, he was a 6/4 (with bet365) underdog coming into his match against Popyrin but the manner in which he started and finished, he would have been quite chuffed with his performance.
It began with a break of serve in the fourth game of the first set for Stricker while ending up with two breaks in the fourth set to race to a 5-0 lead.
While Stricker failed to serve out the match the first time he tried in the eighth game and he then frittered away two match-points on his opponent’s serve, the world number 128 found a way to win it off his serve in the next game.
Stricker will have his work cut out now against Tsitsipas but he comes into the match with a confidence of having made it to the second round of a major for just the second time in his career. He had also done that at the 2023 Wimbledon.
Tsitsipas v Stricker Prediction and Tip
Tsitsipas might need to be a touch careful but it will be tough to overcome him over five sets. Some fight can be expected from Stricker, who is on a four-match winning streak as a qualifier but it doesn’t look likely it will translate into too much more than one set lost for Tsitsipas.
Tips:
- Moderate Risk Tip: Tsitsipas to win AND Over 34.5 games in the match: 6/5 (with bet365)
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