Will Sascha make it clear who’s boss?

Alexander Zverev is considered an absolute all-rounder. However, grass is certainly not the Hamburg native’s preferred surface, as two statistics clearly show. Firstly, he has yet to win any of his 24 singles titles on this surface. And secondly, his win rate in the men’s singles at the Wimbledon Championships (67 percent) is by far his lowest win rate of all four Grand Slams. Nevertheless, Arthur Rinderknech against Alexander Zverev, the German is almost certain to advance.

Not only has Sascha not lost a first-round match at a Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon 2019, but Arthur Rinderknech is certainly the weaker player on grass. The Frenchman has won only one of his five singles matches at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, giving him a win rate of just 20 percent at “The Championships.” That’s too little to suggest that there is even the slightest chance of an upset in the Arthur Rinderknech vs. Alexander Zverev match.

The two athletes have never faced each other before, but based on the playing styles of both men, Alexander Zverev is likely to win every single service game on the fast grass against Arthur Rinderknech, who is not particularly dangerous on returns. Because the Frenchman also serves strongly, it could come down to one or two tiebreaks. However, one break should be enough for the Hamburg native to win the set.

Arthur Rinderknech – Statistics & current form

29-year-old Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech can certainly be described as a late bloomer. The man from Gassin on the Côte d’Azur has only been a regular on the ATP Tour for five years, where he has yet to achieve any resounding success. Only in 2022 did he make it to the final of a small ATP Tour 250 tournament in Adelaide, where he lost 1-2 to Thanasi Kokkinakis.

At Grand Slam level, however, the current world number 70 has not had much success. He has qualified for the main draw of a men’s singles tournament 17 times. Ten times he was knocked out in the opening round, including at both the 2025 Australian Open and the 2025 French Open. Overall, the 29-year-old has a record of nine wins from 26 Grand Slam matches – a sobering win rate of just 35 percent.

Arthur Rinderknech with poor Wimbledon and annual results

Although his height of 1.96 meters would suggest that Arthur Rinderknech might have a slight advantage on grass as a big server, this is by no means the case. He has won only one singles match at Wimbledon and has an even weaker win rate of just 20 percent. No wonder, then, that the Frenchman is the clear underdog in this first-round match against the current world number three. At Winamax, where new customers can claim a €10 free bet in addition to the usual bonus with our Winamax promo code, Arthur Rinderknech is priced at 7.75 to beat Alexander Zverev.

This is also due to the fact that the 2025 season has not been particularly successful so far for the number 70 in the ATP world rankings. Arthur Rinderknech has won only eight of his 25 singles matches in 2025 – not even a third of all his matches. Most recently, he lost 0-2 to Félix Auger-Aliassime in the second round of the Mallorca Championships last week.

Alexander Zverev – Statistics & current form

28-year-old German Alexander Zverev is still waiting for his first Grand Slam title and is currently well behind Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic, and Jack Draper at Wimbledon 2025 with odds of around 26.00, making him an outsider at best. Nevertheless, it is remarkable that the Hamburg native is still ranked number three in the world, has defeated almost all of the top stars multiple times, is a two-time world champion and has also won the Olympic gold medal.

All Sascha needs now is a Grand Slam tournament where everything goes his way. He has practically always gotten off to a good start in the most important tennis tournaments of the year. Since his first-round exit at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, the world number three has never lost in the very first round again. At the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, he has won 16 of 24 singles matches – a win rate of 66.7 percent.

Alexander Zverev should be able to take care of business with his serve

Lawn is officially the surface on which Alexander Zverev has the lowest win rate of the three surfaces played on the ATP Tour. He has also never won a lawn tournament before. Nevertheless, he has exactly what it takes to be successful here. As an all-rounder with a razor-sharp serve, he hardly ever loses service games on this fast surface, which is why a single break should usually be enough to reach the next round. If necessary, the Hamburg native also has the composure to win tiebreaks and take the set.

Accordingly, there is no alternative to betting on Arthur Rinderknech against Alexander Zverev, with the 28-year-old expected to clear the first hurdle with ease, especially as his record of 35 wins from 48 singles matches this year speaks for itself compared to the extremely poor record of his French opponent in his opening match. In addition, Sascha has won six of his eight singles matches on grass so far this season, losing only to Taylor Fritz (ATP 7) and Daniil Medvedev (ATP 11), whose serve is also almost impossible to break.

Arthur Rinderknech – Alexander Zverev Head-to-head record / H2H record

Head to head: 0:0

There has never been a ranked singles match between these two players. Accordingly, there is no head-to-head data available that could influence our prediction for Arthur Rinderknech vs. Alexander Zverev.

Arthur Rinderknech – Alexander Zverev Tip

So far, the Wimbledon Championships have been a particularly bad place for Arthur Rinderknech, who has lost in the first round in three of four appearances and recorded his first ever singles victory at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club a year ago, when he beat the aging Kei Nishikori 3-2 in the opening match. Nevertheless, the Frenchman has a sobering win rate of just 20 percent in the only Grand Slam tournament played on grass. That is likely to be too little to seriously trouble the world number three from Germany.

Considering that Sascha is unlikely to drop a single service game on the fast grass, the German has a good chance of securing a convincing 3-0 victory in his opening match. The odds for Arthur Rinderknech against Alexander Zverev are 1.78, which we are betting four out of ten units on at Betano.