

What Time Will Alexander Bublik Play Against Felix Auger-Aliassime?
Bublik and Auger-Aliassime are on the Day 2 Schedule at Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2025 on Tuesday 25 February 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?
The head-to-head series between Alexander Bublik from Kazakhstan and Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada is currently tied at 2-2. Their past matches include:
– ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai (China) in 2019: Auger-Aliassime won 7-6(5) 4-0 RET in the Round of 64 on hard court.
– Hamburg (Germany) in 2020: Bublik won 6-4 6-2 in the Round of 16 on clay court.
– Basel (Switzerland) in 2022: Auger-Aliassime won 6-2 6-3 in the quarterfinals on hard court.
– Montpellier (France) in 2024: Bublik won 4-6 6-4 6-4 in the semifinals on hard court.
Alexander Bublik, 27 years old and ranked World No. 51, reached a career-high ranking of No. 17 in May 2024. He achieved this milestone after becoming the first ATP Tour champion, since its establishment in 1990, to come back from a set down in every match on his way to winning his fourth title in Montpellier. In that tournament, he defeated five Top 25 players, including No. 9 Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals and No. 7 Andrey Rublev in the final. Bublik also secured his biggest career win against No. 3 Alexander Zverev in the 2022 Montpellier final, which earned him his first ATP Tour title in his fifth final. He has been a runner-up in several tournaments, including Newport in 2019, Chengdu in 2019, Antalya and Singapore in 2021, Newport and Metz in 2022, and Dubai in 2024. Bublik had his personal-best 35 wins in 2021 and reached the quarterfinals of ATP Masters 1000 events in Miami and Madrid. In doubles, he reached the final of the 2021 Roland Garros with his fellow countryman Golubev and the semifinals of the 2020 Australian Open with Kukushkin. It is important to note that Bublik reached his most recent ATP Tour final at the same venue last year but lost to Humbert. He is now aiming for his first Top 50 win since defeating No. 15 Shelton at ATP Masters 1000 Madrid in April. Additionally, he is seeking his first Top 50 win on hard courts since his run to the 2024 Dubai final, where he beat No. 28 Griekspoor, No. 36 Lehecka, and No. 5 Rublev.
Linda Noskova
Maria Lourdes Carle
Zizou Bergs
Yoshihito Nishioka
Learner Tien
Marcos Giron
Paula Badosa Gibert
Veronika Kudermetova
David Goffin
Alexandre Muller
Belinda Bencic
Clara Tauson
Katie Boulter
Jasmine Paolini
Ben Shelton
Mariano Navone
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Magdalena Frech
Emma Raducanu
Marta Kostyuk
Sofia Kenin
Lulu Sun
Diana Shnaider
Katie Volynets
Alexei Popyrin
Alexander Bublik
Anastasija Sevastova
Jelena Ostapenko
Damir Dzumhur
Mattia Bellucci
Felix Auger-Aliassime, 24 years old and ranked World No. 21, achieved his career-high ranking of No. 6 during the breakout 2022 season. He had an outstanding year with a personal-best of 60 wins, including a 16-match win streak. During that streak, he won three titles consecutively in Florence, Antwerp, and Basel. In 2022, Auger-Aliassime also won the Rotterdam title, reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the third consecutive time, and won team titles at the ATP Cup, Laver Cup, and Davis Cup. He excelled on hard courts and indoor courts, leading the ATP Tour in wins with 45 on hard courts and 31 indoors. Notably, he defeated No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz and former No. 1s Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Rafael Nadal. Auger-Aliassime made history as the first Canadian men’s singles semifinalist at the US Open in 2021 and the first Canadian ATP Masters 1000 finalist on clay in the series history at Madrid in 2024. At just 18 years old in 2019, he became the youngest Top-25 player since Lleyton Hewitt in 1999, the youngest ATP 500 finalist in series history at Rio de Janeiro, and the youngest semifinalist in the history of the Miami tournament. In the current season, Auger-Aliassime has won two titles in Adelaide and Montpellier. He leads the ATP Tour in title wins this year and is one of four players with 12+ tour-level wins. In the previous week, he reached the semifinals of Doha, losing to eventual champion Andrey Rublev.
The players with the most tour-level wins in 2025 are Alex de Minaur with 13 wins, Jiri Lehecka with 13 wins, Felix Auger-Aliassime with 12 wins, and Zizou Bergs with 12 wins. All four of them are competing in Dubai this week. Bublik is looking to secure his first Top 50 win since April and his first Top 50 win on hard courts since his run to the 2024 Dubai final. Auger-Aliassime is currently leading the ATP Tour in title wins this year and has had a successful start to the season.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Bublik will win.
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