What Time Will Felix Auger-Aliassime Play Against Marcos Giron?
Auger-Aliassime and Giron are on the Day 4 Schedule at Adelaide International 2025 on Thursday 9 January 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?
Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada has a clear advantage in his head-to-head record against Marcos Giron from the USA, leading 4-1. Their most recent encounter was at the outdoor hard court quarter-final in Tokyo 2023, where Giron came out victorious with a 6-1, 6-4 scoreline.
At the age of 24, Auger-Aliassime is currently ranked world No. 29 and has reached a career high of No. 6. He has an impressive career record of 217 wins and 148 losses, with five titles to his name. In the year 2022, he had an exceptional season, achieving his career-high ranking and earning a personal-best of 60 wins. During this breakout season, he had a remarkable 16-match win streak and won three consecutive titles at Florence, Antwerp, and Basel. Auger-Aliassime also won the Rotterdam title, which ended his previous streak of 0-8 in singles finals. He reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open for the third consecutive Grand Slam and had success in team competitions, securing titles at the ATP Cup, Laver Cup, and Davis Cup. In 2022, Auger-Aliassime excelled on hard courts and indoor courts, leading the ATP Tour with 45 hard-court wins and 31 indoor wins. Notably, he defeated world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz and former world No. 1s Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Rafael Nadal.
Auger-Aliassime made history in 2024 by becoming the first Canadian to reach the clay court ATP Masters 1000 final in Madrid. He also achieved a significant milestone at the 2021 US Open, where he became the first Canadian men’s singles semi-finalist in the tournament’s long history. Furthermore, at the age of 18 in 2019, he became the youngest player to enter the Top 25 since Lleyton Hewitt in 1999. Auger-Aliassime also became the youngest ATP 500 finalist in the history of the series at Rio de Janeiro in 2019 and the youngest semi-finalist in the history of the Miami tournament in 2019.
It is worth noting that Auger-Aliassime aims to reach his 29th tour-level semi-final, with his most recent semi-final appearance occurring at the Paris Olympics in August 2023, where he lost to Alcaraz.
As for Marcos Giron, he is 31 years old and currently ranked world No. 45, with a career-high ranking of No. 37 in August 2024. Despite his overall career record of 106 wins and 119 losses, Giron has had some notable achievements. He is one of three former UCLA Bruins who reached the Top 50 during the 2022 season, alongside Maxime Cressy and Mackenzie McDonald. Giron secured his first ATP Tour title by winning the Newport final after saving a match point. He reached his first ATP Tour final in his home state of California at the 2022 San Diego event. Giron has also qualified for 11 ATP Masters 1000 events, including the 2023 Toronto tournament, where he achieved his biggest career win over world No. 6 Holger Rune in the second round. He demonstrated his resilience in the 2021 Roland Garros by coming back from a 6-2, 6-4, 5-1 deficit and saving three match points against Grigor Dimitrov in the first round. Additionally, Giron won the NCAA singles title for UCLA in 2014 and broke into the Top 100 in 2020 after undergoing surgeries on his right hip in 2015 and left hip in 2016.
Giron has struggled against top-ranked players since July, boasting a record of 1-7 against the top 30, with his only win coming against world No. 25 Karen Khachanov at the ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai. However, he had a solid start to the 2024 season with a record of 5-5. Giron now aims to reach his ninth ATP Tour semi-final, with seven of his previous eight semi-final appearances occurring on hard courts.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Auger-Aliassime will win.
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