Daniil Medvedev vs Jannik Sinner Prediction – Tennis Picks 10-29-2023

Top seed Daniil Medvedev will battle second seed Jannik Sinner in the final of the 2023 Vienna Open. The match will be played on Sunday, October 29, 2023.

The top two seeds in Vienna will meet in the final on Sunday and was there ever a doubt? Daniil Medvedev fended off the challenge of Stefanos Tsitsipas, beating the Greek 6-4, 7-6, his ninth win in 13 head-to-head meetings. It was also his 64th match win of the season, a career-best for the Russian, who also holds the record for the most wins on hard courts this year with 47. Medvedev, however, faces his toughest test of the tournament against second-seeded Jannik Sinner who recently ended his hoodoo in their rivalry.

Jannik Sinner arrived in Vienna as the man most capable of bringing down the juggernaut, Daniil Medvedev. After all, Sinner, who was bound to get his first win over the Russian, produced a performance of supreme confidence and composure to beat Medvedev in the Beijing final at the start of October. He is one of only two men to beat Medvedev and Carlos Alcaraz this year (the other being Novak Djokovic). Sinner’s personal-best season has seen him notch titles at 250, 500, and 1000 levels this year. He won a tight semifinal against Andrey Rublev, overcoming a late blip in the second set to round off a 7-5, 7-6 victory.

Daniil Medvedev has mental edge in this matchup having beaten the Italian six times in seven meetings. But Jannik Sinner’s last win in Beijing gives him unwavering self-belief heading into Sunday’s final. Karen Khachanov and Grigor Dimitrov exposed a few chinks in Medvedev’s armory during the week, and even Stefanos Tsitsipas, with a little bit of composure, could have stretched him to a third set. Sinner has been playing significantly better tennis than the trio Medvedev has beaten this week. The Russian is a devilishly difficult man to breach in baseline rallies, but Sinner possesses a hyper-aggressive and accurate forehand to tear him down. Back the Italian to hoist his fourth title of the season.