Prediction Of Zandschulp Vs Berrettini H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships 2024?

What Time Will Botic van de Zandschulp Play Against Matteo Berrettini?

Zandschulp and Berrettini are on the Day 1 Schedule at Kinoshita Group Japan Open Tennis Championships 2024 on Wednesday 25 September 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?

Botic van de Zandschulp from the Netherlands and Matteo Berrettini from Italy have faced each other in three matches. Berrettini has won all three matches.
The first match took place at the Wimbledon in 2021 on grass, where Berrettini won 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(4) in the Round of 64.
The second match was at the Queen’s Club in London in 2022 on grass, where Berrettini won 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals.
The third match was in the Davis Cup Group A in 2024, held in Italy on a hard court. Berrettini won 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Van de Zandschulp is 28 years old and currently ranked 67th in the world. His career-high ranking was No. 22, achieved in August 2022.
In the 2024 season, he has a record of 14 wins and 21 losses, and he reached the third round of the US Open. He is making his debut in the Tokyo Olympics.
Van de Zandschulp has achieved a new career-high ranking 14 times in 2022 and ended the season as the number one Dutchman for the second consecutive year.
At the 2021 US Open, he became the third men’s qualifier in the Open Era to reach the quarterfinals. He was also the first Dutchman to reach the Grand Slam quarterfinals since 2004. He was the only player to take a set off the eventual champion, Medvedev.
In 2021, he won 11 out of 12 Grand Slam qualifying matches, successfully qualifying for the Australian Open, Roland Garros, and the US Open. He entered Wimbledon as a Lucky Loser and lost in the third qualifying round.
He reached his first ATP Tour final in 2022 in Munich, upsetting No. 7 Ruud along the way. In 2021, he reached his first ATP Tour semifinal in St. Petersburg, defeating No. 6 Rublev.
He reached his second ATP Tour final in 2023 in Munich, defeating No. 10 Fritz in the semifinals. However, he lost to Rune in the final, despite having four championship points.
In 2022, he achieved a personal-best of 38 wins, including victories over Norrie, Fritz, and Bublik, helping the Netherlands qualify for the Davis Cup Finals knock-out stage.
Van de Zandschulp has a record of 4 wins and 12 losses against top 50 players this season. Notably, he defeated No. 3 Alcaraz in the second round of the US Open in late August. He aims to become the first Dutchman to win a match in Tokyo since Sluiter in 2005.
On the other hand, Matteo Berrettini is also 28 years old and currently ranked 45th in the world. His career-high ranking is No. 6, achieved after reaching the semifinals of the 2022 Australian Open. He is the third-highest-ranked Italian since the start of the PIF ATP Rankings in 1973, with Jannik Sinner as the highest-ranked Italian in 2024 and Adriano Panatta at No. 4 in 1976.
Berrettini made history at the 2021 Wimbledon by becoming the first Italian men’s singles finalist in the tournament’s history. He was also the first Italian men’s singles finalist in a Grand Slam since Panatta in the 1976 Roland Garros.
He is the first Italian man to reach the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slam events and the first to win a match at the Nitto ATP Finals, defeating Thiem in the round-robin stage in 2019.
Berrettini has an impressive grass court record of 42 wins and 11 losses and has won 4 out of his 10 ATP Tour titles on grass. He won the London/Queen’s Club title in 2021 and 2022, becoming the first player in the Open Era to win titles in each of his first two appearances at the event.
He has achieved his biggest wins of his career by defeating No. 3 Thiem at the 2021 ATP Cup team final and No. 3 Ruud at the 2023 United Cup team final.
Berrettini has a perfect record of 14 wins and 0 losses against lower-ranked players this season. He is one of three players to win three or more titles on the ATP Tour this season, alongside Sinner with 6 titles and Alcaraz with 3 titles. He won titles in Marrakech, Gstaad, and Kitzbuhel, all on clay.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Zandschulp will win.
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