

What Time Will Zizou Bergs Play Against Gael Monfils?
Bergs and Monfils are on the Day 6 Schedule at Asb Classic 2025 on Saturday 11 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?
In the upcoming match at the ASB Tennis Arena in Auckland, Zizou Bergs from Belgium will take on Gael Monfils from France. This will be their first meeting on the ATP Tour.
Zizou Bergs, who is 25 years old, is currently ranked 66th in the world. He achieved his career-high ranking of 61 in November 2024. Bergs broke into the top 100 in June 2024 after a significant win over World No. 24 Tabilo. This victory led him to the third round of Roland Garros as a qualifier.
Bergs earned his first ATP Tour win in 2020 at Antwerp, where he defeated Ramos-Vinolas as a wildcard entry ranked 528th. He also reached the quarterfinals of the ATP Tour at Gstaad in 2023 as a qualifier, as well as at Antwerp and Metz in 2024. In addition, he won several Challenger titles, including the 2022 Ilkley Challenger where he defeated former World No. 8 Sock.
Despite some early struggles in the Grand Slam boys’ singles events in 2017, where he lost in the first round of all four events, Bergs has had a successful junior career with a record of 90-45 on the ITF Junior Circuit.
It is worth noting that Bergs is playing in his first ATP Tour final and has the opportunity to become the sixth Belgian man to win an ATP Tour title. The last Belgian man to achieve this was Goffin at the 2022 Marrakech tournament. Bergs aims to join Muller as the second first-time ATP Tour champion this season and also become the fourth qualifier to win the Auckland men’s title. With a title win, he would reach a career-high ranking of No. 54 on the PIF ATP Live Rankings.
Ons Jabeur
Jelena Ostapenko
Alexander Zverev
Francisco Cerundolo
Miomir Kecmanovic
Marcos Giron
Jan-Lennard Struff
Hugo Grenier
Pedro Martinez Portero
Diego Sebastian Schwartzman
Cameron Norrie
Alex Michelsen
Reilly Opelka
Brandon Nakashima
Marta Kostyuk
Amanda Anisimova
Ekaterina Alexandrova
Jessica Pegula
Elena Rybakina
Iga Swiatek
Mackenzie Mcdonald
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Matteo Arnaldi
Learner Tien
Nuno Borges
Zizou Bergs
Zhizhen Zhang
Hubert Hurkacz
Hamad Medjedovic
Daniel Altmaier
On the other side, Gael Monfils, who is 38 years old, is currently ranked 52nd in the world. He achieved his career-high ranking of 6th in 2016. Monfils has had a successful career with 12 ATP Tour titles, including ATP 500 titles at Washington in 2016 and Rotterdam in 2019 and 2020. He has reached at least one final in 19 consecutive seasons, including ATP Masters 1000 finals at Paris in 2009 and 2010, as well as Monte Carlo in 2016.
Monfils has achieved significant victories throughout his career, with wins over World No. 1 players Nadal in 2009 and Medvedev in 2022. He also had impressive win streaks of 12 matches and 25 sets in 2020. As a junior, he won titles at the Australian Open, Roland Garros, and Wimbledon in 2004.
In this tournament, Monfils made a remarkable comeback in the first round against Martinez, coming back from a 1-6 2-5 deficit to reach the final. He is aiming to win his 13th ATP Tour title, which would be his first since the 2023 Stockholm tournament. He also has the opportunity to become the third French champion in the last four editions of the Auckland event. If Monfils achieves this, he will become the oldest man to win a tour-level title since Rosewall in 1977.
It is interesting to note that Monfils is married to former WTA No.3 Elina Svitolina, who reached the WTA Auckland final last year but lost to Gauff.
The doubles final of the tournament will also take place, with the details of the match not provided in the given text.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Bergs will win.
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