Who Will Win: Busta Vs Vukic? Prediction For ATP Winston-salem Open 2024

What Time Will Pablo Carreno Busta Play Against Aleksandar Vukic?

Busta and Vukic are on the Day 4 Schedule at Winston-salem Open 2024 on Wednesday 21 August 2024. 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 first meeting between Pablo Carreno Busta and Aleksandar Vukic, Carreno Busta is currently ranked world No. 299 and is 33 years old. He achieved a career-high ranking of No. 10 in singles and No. 16 in doubles during the 2017 season. Carreno Busta has won 7 singles titles and 4 doubles titles in his career. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 5-4, reaching the third round at Winston-Salem. In total, he has a record of 17-6 at the event, including winning the title in 2016.

Notable achievements for Carreno Busta include winning the 2022 Montreal championship, making him the 15th different Spaniard to win an ATP Masters 1000 title since the series began in 1990. He also won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021) after defeating Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev. Carreno Busta has reached the semifinals at the US Open and the quarterfinals at Roland Garros in both 2017 and 2020. He also reached the 2016 US Open doubles final with his countryman Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. In team competitions, he was a member of the winning Spanish team at the 2019 Davis Cup and helped Team Spain reach the ATP Cup finals in 2020 and 2022.

Carreno Busta is the only former champion remaining in the draw at Winston-Salem. He defeated Kumar in the first round and Shevchenko in the second round, tying Steve Johnson for the most wins in tournament history (17). Carreno Busta aims to reach his 6th Winston-Salem quarterfinal in his 8th appearance and advance to his first ATP Tour

quarterfinal since the 2022 Basel tournament.

On the other hand, Aleksandar Vukic is currently ranked world No. 94 and is 28 years old. He broke into the top 200 in March 2020 but had his progress interrupted by the COVID-19 suspension of the ATP Tour. He achieved a career-high ranking of No. 48 in August 2023 after reaching his first ATP Tour final at the 2023 Atlanta tournament. Vukic also reached the semifinals at the 2024 Eastbourne tournament as a lucky loser, defeating Nishioka in the quarterfinals after losing to him in the qualifying rounds.

Vukic’s notable accomplishments include qualifying for the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Toronto tournament and defeating world No. 15 Borna Coric on his way to the third round. He has also won Challenger titles at the 2022 Bengaluru-2 and the 2023 Busan tournaments. In addition, he reached the finals of the Challenger tournaments in 2021 and 2022 in Champaign. Vukic was a three-time All-American for the University of Illinois from 2015-2018. He was born in Sydney after his parents and older brother fled Montenegro during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

In the second round of the Winston-Salem tournament, Vukic caused an upset by defeating the 2022 champion and fourth seed Adrian Mannarino. He now aims to reach his fifth ATP Tour quarterfinal of the season and his first on hard courts since his first ATP Tour final in 2023 Atlanta, where he lost to Taylor Fritz.

This match between Carreno Busta and Vukic will take place on Court 2.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Busta will win.
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