

What Time Will Felix Auger-Aliassime Play Against Borna Coric?
Auger-Aliassime and Coric are on the Day 2 Schedule at United Cup 2025 on 27 December 2024. 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?
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Borna Coric have faced each other three times before, with Coric currently leading the head-to-head record 2-1. Their previous matches took place at the ATP Masters 1000 events in Miami, Rome, and Cincinnati.
In Miami in 2019, Auger-Aliassime defeated Coric in the quarterfinals with a score of 7-6(3), 6-2. In Rome the same year, Coric turned the tables and won their second-round match with a score of 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-4. In Cincinnati, Coric defeated Auger-Aliassime in the quarterfinals with a score of 6-4, 6-4.
Auger-Aliassime, a 24-year-old Canadian player, is currently ranked World No. 29. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 6 in 2022 and had a breakout season that year. He achieved a personal-best 60 wins during that season, including a 16-match win streak and titles at Florence, Antwerp, and Basel. Auger-Aliassime also won the Rotterdam title, reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the third consecutive year, and won team titles at the ATP Cup, Laver Cup, and Davis Cup. He led the ATP Tour with 45 hard-court wins and 31 indoor wins in 2022, with notable victories over top-ranked players like Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Rafael Nadal. In 2024, Auger-Aliassime reached the Madrid final, becoming the first Canadian clay court ATP Masters 1000 finalist in history. He also made history at the 2021 US Open as the first Canadian men’s singles semifinalist in the tournament’s long history. In 2019, at the age of 18, he became the youngest Top-25 player since Lleyton Hewitt in 1999, the youngest ATP 500 finalist in Rio de Janeiro, and the youngest semifinalist in Miami tournament history.
It’s worth noting that Auger-Aliassime is making his singles debut at the United Cup this year, having been unable to play in the previous edition due to a knee injury. Representing Canada, he has an impressive 8-1 record in singles matches at the Davis Cup since the start of the 2022 season and won a bronze medal in mixed doubles at the 2024 Paris Olympics with partner Gabriela Dabrowski.
Linda Fruhvirtova
Olga Danilovic
Fiona Ferro
Jessika Ponchet
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Varvara Gracheva
Francisco Cerundolo
Alexander Shevchenko
Botic Van De Zandschulp
Ben Shelton
Jana Fett
Iga Swiatek
Alexander Zverev
Daniel Altmaier
Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah
Jaqueline Cristian
Jacob Fearnley
Alex De Minaur
Tallon Griekspoor
Yannick Hanfmann
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Andrey Rublev
Ugo Humbert
Fabian Marozsan
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar
Karen Khachanov
David Goffin
Mariano Navone
Stefanos Tsitsipas
Sebastian Korda
On the other hand, Borna Coric is a 28-year-old Croatian player currently ranked World No. 90. He achieved his career-high ranking of No. 12 in 2018. Coric has recorded 11 wins against top-five players and had notable achievements earlier in his career, such as ending 2015 as the youngest player in the Top 50 and 2014 as the youngest player in the Top 100. He made history in 2018 by winning the Halle title, defeating Roger Federer and becoming the youngest champion in the tournament’s history at the age of 21. Coric also claimed his first ATP Tour title at the 2017 Marrakech, saving five match points against Philipp Kohlschreiber. He reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the 2020 US Open, saving six match points against Stefanos Tsitsipas along the way. In 2022, Coric achieved a remarkable victory at the Cincinnati tournament by defeating Rafael Nadal as the lowest-ranked champion in the tournament’s history, being ranked World No. 152 at the time.
Coric faced a setback in his career due to a right shoulder injury, which caused him to miss 12 months, including the Davis Cup Finals, from March 2021 to March 2022. He is participating in the United Cup for the third time as the Croatian No. 1 player. With a 3-2 singles record at the event, Coric had 9 out of his 12 tour-level wins on hard courts last season. He secured notable wins against players like Holger Rune, Robin Haase, and Facundo Baez.
In the mixed doubles category at the United Cup, Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada will face Donna Vekic and Ivan Dodig from Croatia.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Auger-Aliassime will win.
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