Stefanos Tsitsipas v Richard Gasquet Betting Tips [15 June 2023]

Top seed Stefanos Titsipas faces the unseeded Richard Gasquet on Thursday in the second round at the Stuttgart Open. The winner of this match will advance to play either fifth-seed Tommy Paul or unseeded Jan-Lennard Struff in the quarterfinals. Stefanos Tsitsipas is making his season debut on grass with this match and arrives having compiled a record of 31 wins and nine losses. His last match saw him eliminated from the French Open in the quarterfinals. The Greek number one has not been as dominant on grass as he has been on other surfaces and currently has a win/loss record of 20-13. He has also lost on grass to Gasquet in one of their two previous matches so will need to be at his absolute best to win here. Tsitsipas is currently ranked as the fifth-best player in the ATP.

Though five years have passed since Gasquet defeated Tsitsipas in Hertogenbosch, he will fancy his chances of coming away with another win here. The two players were set to meet in Miami earlier in the year but Gasquet pulled out of the tie. The Frenchman is having a difficult season so far and has lost one more match than he has won. He claimed his 14th victory of the campaign by defeating the qualifier Christopher Eubanks 2-0 in the first round. The win moved him up three places in the live ranking to number 52. He will hope switching to grass turns his season around. Gasquet is a strong performer on grass and has won 46 of the 70 matches he has played on the surface. He is also a former finalist in Stuttgart.

This match could go to three sets as Gasquet is a strong performer on grass and has defeated Tsitsipas before on the surface. Tsitsipas however has form on his side coming into this match and has also won against Gasquet before. Our prediction for Stefanos Tsitsipas v Richard Gasquet is for Tsitsipas to win.