What Time Will Roberto Carballes Baena Play Against Zizou Bergs?
Baena and Bergs are on the Day 4 Schedule at Asb Classic 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?
Roberto Carballes Baena from Spain, aged 31 and currently ranked as World No. 59, will be facing the Belgian qualifier Zizou Bergs for the first time. Carballes Baena reached his career-high ranking of No. 49 in April 2023, at the age of 30. He achieved this feat after winning his second ATP Tour title in Marrakech, where he rallied from a set down three times in five matches. In 2018, Carballes Baena became the first Spanish qualifier to win an ATP Tour title since Almagro in 2006. He also had notable victories against No. 11 Shapovalov at the 2020 Roland Garros and No. 4 Rune at the 2023 US Open. Carballes Baena’s ATP Tour record includes a win over Goffin en route to the 2014 Casablanca semifinals. Furthermore, he has had a successful Challenger career, with titles on clay courts at the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Seville tournaments. Carballes Baena is looking to reach his sixth ATP Tour semifinal, which would be his first outside of clay courts since he reached the Marrakech final last year.
Zizou Bergs, aged 25, hailing from Belgium and currently ranked as World No. 66, will also be playing in his first encounter against Carballes Baena. He broke into the Top 100 in June 2024 and achieved his career-high ranking of No. 61 in November 2024. One of Bergs’s notable victories came at Roland Garros where he defeated No. 24 Tabilo en route to reaching the third round as a qualifier. Additionally, he earned his first ATP Tour win against Ramos-Vinolas at the 2020 Antwerp when he was ranked 528th as a wild card. Bergs has also reached the ATP Tour quarterfinals at the 2023 Gstaad, 2024 Antwerp, and 2024 Metz tournaments. In terms of his previous achievements, he won the 2022 Ilkley Challenger title after defeating former World No. 8 Sock, which earned him a Wimbledon wild card. Bergs has won several Challenger titles and had a solid ITF Junior Circuit record.
Both players have experienced difficulty in reaching the ATP Tour quarterfinals, with Carballes Baena having lost in all three of his previous attempts on hard courts and Bergs yet to win any in his career. However, Bergs aims to join Olivier Rochus as the only Belgian men’s semi-finalists in Auckland in the Open Era. In the qualifying rounds leading up to this match, the 25-year-old Bergs staged a remarkable comeback from being down 2-6, 5-6* to defeat Carreno Busta in the first round.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Baena will win.
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