Will the player from Kempen build on his marathon match?
After Daniel Altmaier wrapped up the hardcourt season with a 0-8 record on the ATP Tour, the Kempen native made it all the way to the final last week at a Challenger tournament in Naples on his beloved clay. In Bucharest, he can now build on that momentum on the ATP Tour as well, having stormed into the quarterfinals with two wins. However, with Daniel Altmaier facing Fabian Marozsán, the odds aren’t exactly in the German’s favor for clearing this hurdle. But even in the round of 16, the 27-year-old looked like the sure loser on several occasions, yet after falling behind 0-1 in sets, he fought back to secure a 2-1 comeback victory—winning two tiebreaks in a surreal match that lasted three hours and 21 minutes.
It must be noted, however, that Daniel Altmaier will have expended a fair amount of energy, which could very well tip the scales. After all, Fabian Marozsán spent just 109 minutes on the court in his clean 2-0 victory over Stefanos Sakellaridis (ATP 225). However, the way the German defeated Dino Prizmic (ATP 112) 2-1 on Friday is likely to have boosted his confidence. In the deciding set, the Kempen native fought back from a 1-5 deficit, forced a tiebreak, and kept his composure there. We see significant value in the bet that Daniel Altmaier will win at least one set in this quarterfinal as well.
Given that the tenacious German was able to save himself with a tiebreak even in a dire situation and secured the breaks precisely when the match was hanging in the balance, the bet that at least one set in this German-Hungarian quarterfinal will go to a tiebreak is also highly favored. The Hungarian, who started as the third seed in Romania, also had to go to a tiebreak in the round of 16 despite winning the first set 2-0.
Odds of 2.50 are available on the bet365 app for over 0.5 tiebreaks in the match between Daniel Altmaier and Fabian Marozsán.
Daniel Altmaier – Fabian Marozsán Head-to-Head Record
Head to Head: 0:0
The two players have never faced each other in a ranked singles match on the ATP Tour. Consequently, there is no “Head to Head” data available that could influence our prediction for Daniel Altmaier vs. Fabian Marozsán.
Daniel Altmaier – Fabian Marozsán Prediction
Generally speaking, our prediction for Daniel Altmaier vs. Fabian Marozsán leans toward the man from Budapest, who spent only half as much time on the court as the German in the round of 16 and clearly expended far less energy in Romania. However, writing off the Kempen native prematurely after the marathon match could also turn out to be a mistake, especially since the 27-year-old German surpasses himself year after year during the clay-court season and has celebrated his greatest successes on this surface, while the Hungarian statistically performs slightly better on hard courts than on clay.
Accordingly, it makes sense to bet that the player from Kempen will take at least one set from his opponent and possibly drag the Hungarian into another marathon match with an uncertain outcome. For the German to win by more than 0.5 sets, Betano is offering odds of 1.82 on Daniel Altmaier vs. Fabian Marozsán, which we’re betting four out of ten units on.
