H2H: Kyle Edmund vs. Diego Schwartzman - Prediction (ATP Paris

Preview and players comparison.

Though Kyle Edmund is the better player in these conditions (H2H 1-0 on IH), the current form gives Diego Schwartzman an opportunity to open a 3-2 lead in the H2H series.

Diego Schwartzman snapped his three-match losing streak and put together a solid run in Vienna last week where he defeated the likes of Gael Monfils and Karen Khachanov before taking a set off the home-crowd favorite Dominic Thiem in the championship match.
The top-ranked Argentinian has won only 17 matches on indoor hardcourt so far in his career but managed to finish as the runner-up thrice — in Vienna 2019, Antwerp 2016 and 2017. Diego Schwartzman has competed twice in Paris Masters before, and he managed to win exactly one match during both visits — defeated Viktor Troicki in 2017 and Feliciano Lopez in 2018. With 43 wins at the expense of 24 losses, this has been a solid season for the world #15 Diego Schwartzman, especially considering he was struggling to win matches after suffering an injury in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year.

Kyle Edmund produced one of his best performances of the season to overcome Ricardas Berankis (6-4 6-3 in R1), who has won 18 matches and two Challenger titles on indoor hardcourt so far in 2019. With this win, the former Brit #1 Kyle Edmund ended his eight-match losing streak on tour. He failed in the second round of Paris Masters during his only previous appearance in 2017 and would be hoping to progress at least one step further this time around. Only four times Kyle Edmund has managed to win back-to-back matches on the main tour so far in this disappointing 2019 season, and two of those runs have come in Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami Open.