Thick board for Struffi
It’s Wimbledon and it’s not uncommon for the match schedule to be severely delayed due to the weather. This is also the case this year. The weather gods are not being kind to the world’s most important tennis tournament at the moment. In our Jan-Lennard Struff vs Daniil Medvedev betting tip, it becomes clear that the German was affected by the rain but was still able to play his matches as planned
A very tough task now awaits the Warsteiner in the third round. Russia’s Daniil Medvedev reached the semi-finals at Church Road last year and has played a total of six finals at a Grand Slam tournament, albeit all in Melbourne and Flushing Meadows, i.e. always on hardcourts. However, the 28-year-old can also show off his strengths on grass.
If we look at the rankings, then the number five in the ATP rankings is quite clearly favored on Friday. That’s why the first prediction in the duel between Jan-Lennard Struff and Daniil Medvedev is that the Russian will win. However, we tend to think that this encounter is completely open-ended, as the German certainly has the qualities to put his Russian opponent in trouble
So far in his career, “Struffi” has not really warmed to the hallowed turf at Wimbledon. This is only the third time he has ever reached the third round at Church Road. Before the current tournament, the 34-year-old German only had a record of 5:9 victories – at first glance, no reason to place a bet with a Betano bonus on a victory for the man from Warstein.
Jan-Lennard Struff – statistics & current form
Current world ranking position: 41
Position in the seeding list: unseeded
Even at an advanced tennis age, you can still develop and stabilize your game at a high level. Basically, Jan-Lennard Struff is playing his best and most successful tennis in the fall of his career. In April, he finally won his first title on the ATP Tour in his fourth final. On top of that, he qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris. The Warstein player couldn’t be feeling much better at the moment
Recently remarkable on grass
Only the somewhat difficult relationship with grass courts could pose a problem, although Struffi already played a final on this surface in Stuttgart last year and also recently won against Stefanos Tsitsipas in Halle. With Jannik Sinner, he even had the world number one on the brink of defeat. So the conditions for Wimbledon weren’t that bad
The Warsteiner also managed to win a match at Church Road for the first time since 2019. Reaching the third round is already his personal best result on the hallowed turf. Jan-Lennard Struff performed strongly in both of his matches, but also had phases in which things didn’t go so well.
In the two matches against Fábián Marozsán from Hungary and Zhizhen Zhang from China, he won in 3:1 sets. The important thing is that the German was able to rely on his service in the decisive phases. A hard and precise serve has always been half the battle at Wimbledon. If he succeeds in building on this in the third round, then we will also be looking at the odds for a German victory in the match between Jan-Lennard Struff and Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Medvedev – statistics & current form
Current world ranking position: 5
Position in the seeding list: 5
It’s not really Daniil Medvedev’s year yet, even if that’s complaining at a high level. The Russian has won a good three million dollars in prize money again this year and has already reached two major finals at the Australian Open and the Masters in Indian Wells. However, he has yet to bring home a tournament win this year
Medvedev not a grass specialist
The European summer with its many clay court tournaments and then the short grass court season is generally not Daniil Medvedev’s best time. The Russian has won 18 of his 20 titles on the ATP Tour on hard courts. He triumphed once on clay and actually won on grass in Stuttgart in 2021. These statistics show where the 28-year-old’s main strengths lie.
At the only preparatory tournament in Halle, the Russian lost in the second round to China’s Zhizhen Zhang, the same player who lost to Struffi at Wimbledon on Wednesday. However, cross-comparisons are a huge hindrance in sport and yet it could be a starting point for predicting a victory for the German in the duel between Jan-Lennard Struff and Daniil Medvedev.
In the tournament opener against the American Aleksandar Kovacevic, the world number five still looked very confident in his 6:3, 6:4 and 6:1 win. However, he then had major problems with Frenchman Alexandre Müller and, after losing the set, was already a break behind in the second set. Only then did the Russian find his game more and more and finally won in four sets.
Jan-Lennard Struff – Daniil Medvedev Direct comparison / H2H result
There are not many secrets in a duel between Jan-Lennard Struff and Daniil Medvedev. Both have been on the tour for a very long time and have therefore met frequently. They have met a whopping nine times in total. The direct comparison speaks more than clearly in favor of the Russian, who has a 7:2 lead after wins.
The very first time the two met was in the first round of Hamburg in 2016. At that time, the Russian had the upper hand in three sets. Two of the nine duels were played on grass. Struffi initially won in three sets in Halle in 2021. However, that was not a good omen for the subsequent tournament at Church Road, where Medvedev again took revenge in four sets in the first round. Their last encounter came at the end of 2021 in the Davis Cup, when Jan-Lennard Struff was beaten in two sets
Jan-Lennard Struff – Daniil Medvedev tip
For Jan-Lennard Struff, this is the biggest match of his career at Wimbledon. He has never made it to the round of 16. If he is to make this leap for the first time, he will have to get a tough opponent out of the way, at least as far as the ranking is concerned, because Daniil Medvedev is not an expert on grass. That doesn’t mean that he isn’t world class there, but if he is beatable for Struffi, then most likely on this surface.
The German had phases in his first two matches where things didn’t go quite so well. The Russian, on the other hand, was confident in his opening match, but had to fight in the first 90 minutes of his second match to avoid falling completely behind. In terms of form, we see both players at a similar level, so we would definitely place a bet on more than 3.5 sets, maybe even five rounds, between Jan-Lennard Struff and Daniil Medvedev in the Bwin app
The direct comparison is a very clear affair for the Russian. However, if we reduce the duels between the two opponents to grass matches, then the score is 1:1. We believe that the German will at least take the lead in this partial balance on Friday and have therefore decided to play the odds on a victory for the Warstein player between Jan-Lennard Struff and Daniil Medvedev.
