

What Time Will Flavio Cobolli Play Against Dominic Stricker?
Cobolli and Stricker are on the Day 3 Schedule at United Cup 2025 on 29 December 2024. 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?
Flavio Cobolli from Italy and Dominic Stricker from Switzerland will be facing each other in a tennis match. Cobolli leads the head-to-head record 1-0. The match will take place at the 2023 Next Gen ATP Finals in Saudi Arabia, which will be played on a hard court. In their previous encounter, Cobolli defeated Stricker with a scoreline of 4-2 3-4(7) 4-1 4-2.
Cobolli, who is 22 years old, is currently ranked 32nd in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of 30th in 2024. In the same year, he had a win-loss record of 35-27, which included reaching the final in Washington. He had a career win-loss record of 41-38, with one final appearance.
In his career progression, Cobolli broke into the top 200 in January 2022 and then into the top 100 in October 2023. He qualified for the 2023 Next Gen ATP Finals and achieved his career-high ranking in September 2024 after reaching his first ATP Tour final in Washington. Some notable victories for Cobolli in 2024 were against higher-ranked players like Shelton, Paul, and Jarry. He also reached the third round of the Australian Open and the US Open that year.
Cobolli has had success in Challenger tournaments as well, winning titles in Zadar and Lisbon in 2022 and 2023, respectively. He also reached the finals in Rome-2, Barletta, and Olbia in 2021 and 2023. In his debut on the ATP Tour main draw in 2021, he saved three match points against Giron to secure a victory. Cobolli had a successful junior career, peaking at No. 8 and ending it by winning the boys’ doubles title at Roland Garros in 2020, partnering with Stricker.
It’s worth noting that Cobolli is playing in his first singles match at the United Cup, as he went 0-1 in mixed doubles in the previous edition alongside Brancaccio. Last season, he earned 35 out of his 41 career tour-level wins, and he led the ATP Tour in deciding set wins with a record of 18-9.
As for Dominic Stricker, he is 22 years old and currently ranked 300th in the world. His career-high ranking is 88th, which he achieved in October 2023. He had a win-loss record of 4-6 in 2024, with his best result being a quarterfinal appearance in Stockholm. Overall, his career win-loss record is 24-27, with four quarterfinal appearances.
In 2020, Stricker ended his junior career as the World No. 3. He reached his career-high ranking soon after defeating No. 7 Tsitsipas at the 2023 US Open, where he reached the fourth round. He also qualified for the Next Gen ATP Finals in 2022 and 2023, reaching the semifinals on both occasions. In his ATP Tour debut in 2021, he made it to the quarterfinals in Geneva as a wildcard. In his second ATP Tour main draw appearance in 2021, he also reached the quarterfinals in Stuttgart.
Stricker has had some notable wins in his career, including a victory over Cressy in Basel in 2022, becoming the youngest Swiss player to win in Basel since Federer in 2000. He also defeated No. 8 Ruud in Basel in 2023 to become the youngest Swiss quarterfinalist since Federer in 2001. He won his first Challenger title as a wildcard in Lugano in 2021.
Stricker had success in junior Grand Slam tournaments as well. In 2020, he defeated Riedi to win the boys’ singles final at Roland Garros and then teamed up with Cobolli to win the boys’ doubles title, becoming the first player to achieve this feat since Gonzalez in 1998.
In the current season, Stricker started with a loss to Humbert from France but teamed up with Bencic to win the deciding mixed doubles match. He was part of the Swiss team in the 2023 United Cup but did not play a match. He missed the first five months of the 2024 season due to an injury. He has a record of 12-14 against top 50 players and secured wins against players like Berrettini and Griekspoor in 2024.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Cobolli will win.
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