Marcos Baghdatis vs Viktor Troicki (BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )™
PREVIEW & TIPS Marcos Baghdatis vs Viktor Troicki
Our tennis pick for today is between Marcos Baghdatis and Viktor Troicki, an interesting match will be be played in ATP – SINGLES: Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hard. In the last match between the two, the winner was Viktor Troicki in a minimum of sets 7/5 6/4.
Marcos Baghdatis News
Marcos Baghdatis, who finished the 2017 season with a minus W/L ratio (19/21), has made a decent start to the new season by winning five of his opening seven matches. He also progressed to the quarterfinal in his recent tournament, at ATP Sofia.
Despite facing four first-round exits in Dubai, the Cypriot has made the semifinal once in 2010 and finished as the runner-up in his previous visit (2016), where he defeated Viktor Troicki in the first round before losing to Stan Wawrinka in the final.
Currently ranked at #122, Baghdatis reached as high as #8 in the ATP Rankings when he made the finals at Australian Open 2006, defeating the likes of Andy Roddick, Radek Stepanek, Ivan Ljubicic, and David Nalbandian, before losing to Roger Federer in the Finals (after winning the first-set 7-5).
Marcos Baghdatis vs Viktor Troicki STATS
These two players have met eight times in the past with Marcos Baghdatis leading the H2H 5-3, but Viktor Troicki won the recent two meetings between them, at Istanbul 2017 and Chengdu 2016. Both Baghdatis and Troicki playing to the best of their ability will see the Cypriot progressing further, but neither of them is consistent and any result in possible in the match involving them.
Viktor Troicki News
Viktor Troicki returns to ATP Dubai for the ninth time in his career, having failed to win the first round match in his recent four visits, all being straight-set defeats.
Apart from progressing to the quarterfinal at ATP Sofia earlier this month (weak draw), Viktor Troicki has failed to advance beyond the second round in the other four tournaments that he entered in 2018, including two first-round exits at Doha and Sydney.