

What Time Will Pablo Carreno Busta Play Against Arthur Fils?
Busta and Fils are on the Day 2 Schedule at Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell 2025 on Tuesday 15 April 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?
Pablo Carreno Busta, a 33-year-old Spanish tennis player, is currently ranked as the 99th player in the world. He achieved his career-high ranking of number 10 in singles and number 16 in doubles during the 2017 season. Carreno Busta has won a total of seven singles titles and four doubles titles throughout his career. In 2022, he reached the final of the Barcelona tournament and has a record of 13 wins and 10 losses in the event.
During the 2017 season, Carreno Busta had notable successes, including winning the Montreal championship, which made him the 15th different Spaniard to win an ATP Masters 1000 title since the series began in 1990. He also defeated the number one ranked player, Novak Djokovic, and the number two ranked player, Daniil Medvedev, on his way to winning the bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021). In both 2017 and 2020, Carreno Busta reached the semi-finals of the US Open and the quarter-finals of Roland Garros. He also reached the final of the 2016 US Open doubles event with his compatriot Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. Additionally, he was a member of the winning Spanish team in the 2019 Davis Cup and helped Team Spain reach the ATP Cup finals in 2020 and 2022.
Carreno Busta is participating in the Barcelona tournament for the 11th time and is aiming for his first win on clay since defeating the 14th ranked player, Diego Schwartzman, at the 2022 Bastad tournament. He has a record of 33 wins and 72 losses against top 20 players, with a 10-25 record on clay. Carreno Busta recently returned to the top 100 of the ATP Rankings for the first time since August 2023.
Arthur Fils is a 20-year-old French tennis player who is currently ranked as the 14th player in the world, his career-high ranking. In the 2025 season so far, he has achieved a record of 14 wins and 7 losses, including reaching the quarter-finals in four tournaments. Fils has a record of 2 wins and 1 loss in the Barcelona tournament, reaching the quarter-finals in 2024.
Magdalena Frech
Jessica Pegula
Holger Rune
Casper Ruud
Elina Svitolina
Anhelina Kalinina
Ugo Humbert
Fabian Marozsan
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Andrey Rublev
Moyuka Uchijima
Lois Boisson
Cori Gauff
Ella Seidel
Zizou Bergs
Diego Dedura-Palomero
Jacob Fearnley
Alex De Minaur
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Varvara Gracheva
Jaume Antoni Munar Clar
Karen Khachanov
Emma Navarro
Jelena Ostapenko
Suzan Lamens
Linda Noskova
Linda Fruhvirtova
Olga Danilovic
Luciano Darderi
Ben Shelton
In the 2023 season, Fils made significant progress in the rankings, breaking into the top 200 in January, the top 100 in May, and the top 50 in July. In April 2025, he reached his career-high ranking of No. 14 after becoming the youngest player to reach the quarter-finals of all three ATP Masters 1000 events in a single year. Fils had a successful 2024 season in ATP 500 events, with a record of 17 wins and 4 losses. He won the Hamburg tournament, defeating the fourth-ranked player, Alexander Zverev, and saved a championship point to win the all-French final in Tokyo against Ugo Humbert. Fils became the youngest Frenchman to win an ATP Tour title since Gael Monfils in 2005, winning the Lyon title as a wildcard entry ranked 112th. He also reached the semi-finals in Montpellier and Marseille during the 2023 season.
Fils had a remarkable start to his career, defeating former top-20 player Bernard Tomic in his Grand Slam qualifying debut at the age of 16, reaching the boys’ singles final, and winning the boys’ doubles title with his partner. He achieved a career-high junior ranking of number 3 in the 2021 season.
In terms of recent performances, Fils led the tour in ATP 500 wins last year, with a record of 17 wins and 4 losses, winning the Hamburg and Tokyo tournaments. However, this year he has had mixed results in ATP 500 events, with a second-round loss in Rotterdam and a first-round exit in Dubai. In his most recent events, he is the only player to have reached the quarter-finals of Indian Wells, Miami, and Monte-Carlo this season.
According to the 2024 ATP 500 win leaders, Fils had the highest number of wins in this category, with a record of 17 wins and 4 losses. Jannik Sinner, Alex de Minaur, Jack Draper, and Holger Rune were the other players with notable win records in ATP 500 events.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Busta will win.
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