

What Time Will Buyunchaokete Play Against Felix Auger-Aliassime?
Buyunchaokete and Auger-Aliassime are on the Day 5 Schedule at Open Occitanie 2025 on Friday 31 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?
[8] Buyunchaokete (CHN) will be facing [2] Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) in their first-ever meeting.
Buyunchaokete, at 23 years old and currently ranked World No. 71, achieved his first ranking point in January 2022. He broke into the Top 100 in September 2023 and reached his career-high ranking of No. 65 in December 2024.
He recently reached back-to-back ATP Tour semifinals on home soil. He lost to Zhang in the first all-Chinese ATP Tour semifinal in Hangzhou and defeated No. 6 Rublev for the biggest win of his career to reach the Beijing semifinals, where he lost to No. 1 Sinner.
Buyunchaokete made his tour-level debut at the 2022 Davis Cup, where he lost to M. Cuevas. He then made his ATP Tour debut as a wild card at the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 in Shanghai, earning his first career win over No. 45 Kecmanovic in the first round.
With a 61-36 Challenger record, including 3-2 in finals, Buyunchaokete has won titles at the Seoul Challenger in 2023, the Wuxi Challenger and the Granby Challenger in 2024.
One of his notable experiences was playing against his tennis idol, Andy Murray, at the 2023 Surbiton Challenger, where he lost in straight sets. He also earned a win over future Top-10 player Rune en route to the 2019 Australian Open boys’ singles third round and reached the quarterfinals in boys’ doubles at the 2019 Roland Garros with Khan and the 2020 Australian Open with Mitsui.
Buyunchaokete aims to reach his third ATP Tour semifinal and his first one outside of China, after reaching the semifinals in Hangzhou and Beijing in September of the previous year. He has a record of 3-3 against Top 30 players, with wins over No. 23 Khachanov in Hangzhou and No. 19 Musetti and No. 6 Rublev in Beijing. He hopes to become the second Chinese player to reach an indoor ATP Tour semifinal, following in the footsteps of Wu Yibing at the 2023 Dallas tournament.
On the other side, Felix Auger-Aliassime, 24 years old and currently ranked World No. 23, achieved his career-high ranking of No. 6 and had his breakthrough season in 2022, earning 60 wins, including a personal-best 16-match win streak and three titles in as many weeks at Florence, Antwerp, and Basel.
In the same year, Auger-Aliassime won the Rotterdam title, snapping a career start of 0-8 in singles finals. He also reached his third consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open and swept team titles at the ATP Cup, Laver Cup, and Davis Cup.
In 2022, Auger-Aliassime led the ATP Tour with 45 hard-court wins and 31 indoor wins. Notably, he secured victories over No. 1 Alcaraz and former World No. 1s Djokovic, Murray, and Nadal.
At the 2021 US Open, he became the first Canadian men’s singles semifinalist in the tournament’s history. Then, at the 2024 Madrid tournament, he became the first Canadian to reach the ATP Masters 1000 final on clay in series history.
In 2019, as an 18-year-old, Auger-Aliassime became the youngest Top-25 player since Hewitt in 1999. He also became the youngest ATP 500 finalist in series history at Rio de Janeiro in the same year and the youngest semifinalist in the history of the Miami tournament since 1985.
Auger-Aliassime leads the ATP Tour in indoor wins since the start of the 2022 season with 50 victories. He aims to become the third player born since 2000 to reach 30 tour-level semifinals, following Sinner (33) and Alcaraz (31). Additionally, he has a perfect 5-0 record in tie-breaks in 2025.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Buyunchaokete will win.
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