Flavio Cobolli vs Dominic Stricker Prediction United Cup Tennis Picks 12/29/24

Flavio Cobolli of Italy will clash with Dominic Stricker of Switzerland in the men’s singles match in Group D of the 2025 United Cup in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, December 29, 2024. Here’s our Flavio Cobolli vs Dominic Stricker prediction. This preview will also contain a Flavio Cobolli vs Dominic Stricker pick.

Flavio Cobolli Preview

With no Jannik sinner and Lorenzo Musetti in the team, Flavio Cobolli will be Italy’s No. 1 ATP player at the 2025 United Cup as they look to complete a clean sweep of team competitions.

Italy has already won the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup in the past month and will certainly be among the contenders for the United Cup in the next few days, having come close to winning it two years ago.

Cobolli is one of the new rising youngsters of Italian tennis after breaking into the Top 40 last season. He is ranked 32nd in the ATP rankings after winning 44 matches in 2024. His record on hard courts is great too, with 26 wins from 39 matches.

Dominic Stricker Preview

Dominic Stricker has already played two matches in the opening tie of the group where Switzerland defeated France 2-1. Stricker lost his singles match against France’s No. 1 Ugo Humbert 6-3, 7-5 in an hour and 13 minutes.

Stricker will rue his missed opportunity when he led 5-2 in the second set, but lost five straight games. He finished the match with 10 aces and one double fault.

Stricker landed 61% of first serves in the defeat and won 79% of first-serve points. He won 45% of second-serve points and only saved one of four break points he faced.

He did redeem himself in the mixed doubles which decided the tie, teaming up with Bencic and beating Elixane Lechemia and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-1, 7-6.

Flavio Cobolli vs Dominic Stricker Head-To-Head

• Cobolli and Stricker have met once on the ATP Tour.

• Cobolli beat Stricker in four sets at the 2023 Next Gen ATP Finals.

Flavio Cobolli vs Dominic Stricker Prediction

I’m going with the games spread here as I expect Stricker to polish up his serve and remain consistent from the baseline. The first set in six of Cobolli’s last eight matches have averaged at least 10 games with the exception being in matches he had against Djokovic and Medvedev. If you broaden that sample size, the Italian has also played a long list of marathons in the first set which makes the over total games in the first set my call for this match.