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Match Details
Fixture: (12) Tommy Paul vs (2) Alexander Zverev
Date: January 21, 2025
Tournament: Australian Open 2025
Round: Quarterfinals
Venue: Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia
Category: Grand Slam
Surface: Hard (Outdoor)
Prize Money: A$96,500,000
Live Telecast: USA - ESPN & Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Sports & Sony LIV
Tommy Paul vs Alexander Zverev preview
World No. 2 Alexander Zverev will face the 12th seed Tommy Paul in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Australian Open on Tuesday, 21 January. 27-year-old Zverev has reached the last eight at the Australian Open for the fourth time and has not lost a match this season.
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The German player won the first three matches at the 2025 Australian Open against Lucas Pouille, Pedro Martinez, and Jacob Fearnley without dropping a set and then lost one set in his 6-1, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 win against Ugo Humbert in the fourth round. He has won 14 of his last 15 ATP Tour matches, which includes a title at the Paris Masters 1000 and three group-stage wins at the Nitto ATP Finals.
On the other hand, World No. 11 Paul needed five sets to beat Australia's Christopher O'Connell in the first round and defeated Kei Nishikori in four sets in the second round. He defeated the two Spaniards Roberto Carballes Baena (7-6(0), 6-2, 6-0 and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (6-1, 6-1, 6-1) in the third and fourth rounds respectively, without dropping a set.
Tommy Paul vs Alexander Zverev head-to-head
Paul leads Zverev 2-0 in their head-to-head record, as he won both of their meetings on the hard court. Paul won their first match in 2020 at Acapulco 6-3, 6-4 and then edged the German out in a three-set thriller at the Indian Wells Masters in 2022.
Tommy Paul vs Alexander Zverev odds
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Tommy Paul vs Alexander Zverev prediction
Zverev has a 29-9 win-loss record at Melbourne Park but has choked in the quarterfinal and semifinal stages here.
Zverev won the first two sets against Daniil Medvedev in the 2024 semifinals, but could not finish it off the match. In the 2020 semifinals, he won the first set against Dominic Thiem and lost. In 2021, he won the first set against Novak Djokovic before losing the next three.
It would be important for Paul to keep fighting, as he hopes to reach his second semifinal at the Australian Open, as he lost to Novak Djokovic in the semifinals of the 2023 Australian Open. 27-year-old Paul would have a psychological edge because of the better head-to-head record, so he would want to continue from where he left off in the fourth-round match against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.
Pick: Paul wins in five sets.
