Prediction Of Zverev Vs Schwaerzler H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Erste Bank Open 2024?

What Time Will Alexander Zverev Play Against Joel Schwaerzler?

Zverev and Schwaerzler are on the Day 1 Schedule at Erste Bank Open 2024 on Monday 21 October 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?

Head to head, this will be the first meeting between Alexander Zverev (GER), aged 27, and Joel Schwaerzler (AUT). Zverev currently holds the title of World No. 3, with a career-high ranking of No. 2. In 2024, he has a record of 59 wins and 19 losses, including a title at Rome. In Vienna, Zverev has a record of 9 wins and 2 losses, and he won the title here in 2021.

Zverev achieved his career-high ranking of No. 2 after suffering a major injury to his right ankle, tearing three ligaments during the 2022 Roland Garros semifinals against Nadal.

Zverev has had an impressive career, leading the ATP Tour with six titles in 2021. Among players born since 1990, he holds the record for the most career titles with 22. Notably, he defeated World No. 1 Djokovic on multiple occasions, including during the 2018 Nitto ATP Finals, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the 2021 Nitto ATP Finals championships.

In 2020, Zverev reached his first Grand Slam final at the US Open, where he came back from a two-set deficit to defeat Carreno Busta in the semifinals. However, he squandered a two-set lead for the first time in his career in the final against Thiem.

Zverev also has notable victories over Djokovic at the 2017 Rome and Federer at the 2017 Montreal, which were his first and second ATP Masters 1000 titles. He joined Murray and Thiem as the third player to defeat Djokovic on hard court, Federer on grass, and Nadal on clay.

It’s worth mentioning that Zverev aims to equal his personal best of 60 tour-level wins in a season, which he achieved in 2018. Additionally, he has never lost before the quarterfinals in Vienna, with three main draw appearances, including his 2021 title. Zverev also has a perfect record of 24 wins and 0 losses against left-handers since Roland Garros last year.

On the other hand, Joel Schwaerzler, aged 18, currently holds the title of World No. 347, which is his career-high ranking thus far. In 2024, he has had a record of 0 wins and 1 loss at the Kitzbuhel 1R. This will be his debut appearance in Vienna.

Schwaerzler earned his first PIF ATP rankings point at the age of 17 in March 2023, and he broke into the Top 500 in May 2024, reaching his career-high of No. 347 in October 2024. He also held the No. 1 ranking in the juniors in January 2024 and won the ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Finals at the end of the 2023 season. He then went on to win the 2024 Roland Garros boys’ doubles title alongside Budkov Kjaer.

In terms of his ATP Tour performances, Schwaerzler made his qualifying debut in Kitzbuhel in 2023 and made his main draw debut the following year. He achieved his first Challenger title at the 2024 Skopje tournament as the World No. 664. This victory came in his seventh Challenger main draw appearance, and he defeated former-Top 100 player Majchrzak in the final.

Schwaerzler is coached by Jurgen Melzer, a former Top 10 player in singles and doubles, and the 2009-10 Vienna champion.

It’s noteworthy that this will be Schwaerzler’s second tour-level match after losing to No. 72 Seyboth Wild in the Kitzbuhel 1R in July. If Schwaerzler manages to win this match, he will become the youngest player to defeat a Top 3 opponent since Alcaraz’s victory over Tsitsipas at the 2021 US Open when he was 18 years old. Schwaerzler would also join Alcaraz, Sinner, and Thiem as the fourth 18-year-old player to win a match in Vienna this century.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Zverev will win.
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