Prediction Of Cerundolo Vs Muller H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Rio Open Presented By Claro 2025?

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Cerundolo and Muller are on the Day 5 Schedule at Rio Open Presented By Claro 2025 on Friday 21 February 2025. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

In the match between Francisco Cerundolo from Argentina and Alexandre Muller from France, Muller currently holds a 1-0 lead in their head-to-head record. The match took place in Auckland, New Zealand, on a hard court, in the Round of 16, with Muller defeating Cerundolo 6-1, 6-1.

Francisco Cerundolo, 26 years old and ranked 26th in the world, achieved his career-high ranking of 19. He broke into the top 100 eleven times in 2022 and reached his career-high ranking after reaching the fourth round of the 2023 Roland Garros, where he defeated Fritz. In July 2022, he moved into the top 25 after winning his first ATP Tour title in Bastad and reaching the semifinals in Hamburg, defeating Ruud and Rublev in consecutive weeks. He won his second title on grass at the 2023 Eastbourne, becoming the first Argentine ATP Tour champion on grass since Frana in 1995. Cerundolo made history at the 2022 Miami tournament as the lowest-ranked semifinalist in the tournament’s history and the first player to reach the semifinals in his ATP Masters 1000 main draw debut since Janowicz in 2012. In his family, his father Alejandro also played tennis professionally, his younger brother Juan Manuel won the Cordoba title in 2021, and his sister Constanza played for the Argentine field hockey team that won gold at the 2018 Youth Olympics.

Cerundolo is seeking his 13th ATP Tour semifinal, with 6 of those on clay courts and this being his 3rd in Rio de Janeiro. He has a clay court record of 14-3 since July, including a title in Umag and a runner-up finish in Buenos Aires last week, where he lost to Fonseca in front of his home crowd.

Looking at Alexandre Muller, who is 28 years old and ranked 60th in the world, he broke into the top 500 in 2016, the top 250 in 2019, and the top 100 in April 2023. He achieved his career-high ranking of 56 in January 2025 after winning his first ATP Tour title in Hong Kong, where he defeated Nishikori. He also saved two match points against Kecmanovic in the second round, becoming the third player in the Open Era to win a tour-level title by rallying from a set down in all the matches played since Ashe in 1975 and Bublik in 2024. Muller reached his first semifinal and final at the 2023 Marrakech, defeating clay-court champions Gasquet and Musetti along the way. He also had a significant win over Rublev to reach the fourth round of the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Rome. Muller made his tour-level debut at the 2017 Roland Garros and won his first tour-level match at the 2021 Australian Open. In his early life, he played tennis with his father since the age of 6, although he initially excelled more in football before choosing tennis. He has a Challenger record of 138-122, winning his first title in 2022 in Blois, where he saved a match point in his first-round match.

Muller has a record of 5-14 against top 30 players and aims to reach his third ATP Tour semifinal, with this being his second on clay courts after reaching the final in Marrakech in 2023. He defeated Fonseca, the Brazilian number one, in the first round and the eighth-seeded Etcheverry to reach his first quarterfinal above the ATP 250 level. He became the second Frenchman, following Monfils in 2018, to reach the quarterfinals in Rio de Janeiro.

In their previous meeting, Muller defeated Cerundolo 6-1, 6-1 at the 2024 Auckland tournament.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Cerundolo will win.
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