

What Time Will Carlos Alcaraz Play Against Arthur Fils?
Alcaraz and Fils are on the Day 6 Schedule at Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell 2025 on Saturday 19 April 2025. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.
Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?
Carlos Alcaraz and Arthur Fils will be facing each other in the quarterfinals of the ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo tournament in Monaco. Alcaraz currently has the advantage in their head-to-head record, leading 1-0. In their previous meeting, Alcaraz defeated Fils in a three-set match, with a final score of 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
At just 21 years old, Carlos Alcaraz is a rising star in the tennis world. He is currently ranked as the world number 2 and has achieved a career-high ranking of number 1. In the 2025 season, Alcaraz has a win-loss record of 23-4, with two titles to his name. He has had particular success on clay courts, with a record of 13-1 in Barcelona, where he has won titles in both 2022 and 2023.
Alcaraz holds several impressive records, including being the youngest and first teenage player to reach the world number 1 ranking and year-end number 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings history. He achieved this feat in September 2022 at the age of 19, rising from a ranking of 32 at the end of 2021. Alcaraz held the number 1 ranking for a total of 36 weeks. He also became the youngest men’s champion at the US Open since Pete Sampras in 1990 and the youngest champion at any Grand Slam event since Rafael Nadal at the 2005 Roland Garros.
In 2024, Alcaraz won the Roland Garros tournament, securing the title with epic five-set wins over Jannik Sinner in the semifinals and Alexander Zverev in the final. This victory made him the youngest player to win a Grand Slam title on all three surfaces. He also defeated Novak Djokovic, a seven-time champion, in the finals of both Wimbledon and the Paris Olympics in 2023-24. These wins made him the second man in the Open Era to win his first four Grand Slam finals and the youngest Olympic men’s finalist since 1904, where he won the silver medal.
Alcaraz has also achieved success in other tournaments, becoming the youngest ATP 500 champion at the 2022 Rio de Janeiro event and the third-youngest ATP Masters 1000 champion at the 2022 Miami tournament. He has the distinction of being the youngest player to defeat both Nadal and Djokovic, accomplishing this feat at the same clay-court event in Madrid in 2022.
Currently, Alcaraz is on an impressive eight-match winning streak, having recently won the Monte-Carlo title. On clay courts since May, he has a record of 20-1, with his highlight being the Roland Garros title. In the upcoming match against Fils, Alcaraz will be aiming for his 24th tour-level final, which would tie him with Felix Auger-Aliassime and Sebastian Baez for the most ATP Tour finals this season. Additionally, Alcaraz has an undefeated record against younger opponents, currently standing at 7-0.
On the other side of the court, Arthur Fils, aged 20, is ranked as the world number 14, which is his career-high ranking. In the 2025 season, he has a win-loss record of 17-7 and has reached the semifinals of the Barcelona tournament. Fils has also had success in previous years, making significant progress in the rankings. In 2023, he broke into the top 200 in January, the top 100 in May, and the top 50 in July. He reached his career-high ranking of number 14 in April 2025.
Fils has notable achievements in his career, including becoming the youngest player to reach the quarterfinals of all three ATP Masters 1000 events in one year. He achieved this in the series history. In 2024, he had a strong record in ATP 500 events, finishing with a 17-4 record. This included victories over the number 4 player, Alexander Zverev, to win the Hamburg tournament. He also had a memorable performance in Tokyo, where he saved a championship point to defeat Ugo Humbert in an all-French final.
In 2023, Fils became the youngest Frenchman in nearly two decades to win an ATP Tour title. This victory came at the Lyon tournament, where he defeated Francisco Cerundolo as a wildcard entry ranked 112th. Prior to this win, the last Frenchman to achieve such a feat was Gael Monfils in 2005 at the Sopot tournament.
Fils has had success in reaching the semifinals of ATP Tour events on multiple occasions. In February 2023, he became the youngest Frenchman since Richard Gasquet in 2004 to reach an ATP Tour semifinal. He achieved this at the Montpellier tournament, where he lost to Jannik Sinner. He then reached his second semifinal at the Marseille tournament, where he was defeated by Benjamin Bonzi.
In terms of head-to-head records against top players, Fils has a win over the number 2 player on clay in the 2022 Geneva tournament, defeating Daniil Medvedev. More recently, he defeated Alexander Zverev, also ranked number 2, at the ATP Masters 1000 Miami in the fourth round. Fils is now looking to replicate this success in his match against Alcaraz. If he reaches the final in Barcelona, he would become the second French finalist in the Open Era after Thierry Tulasne in 1985.
Overall, the quarterfinal match between Carlos Alcaraz and Arthur Fils is highly anticipated, with both players showcasing their talent and potential for future success.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Alcaraz will win.
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