

What Time Will Arthur Fils Play Against Jaume Munar?
Fils and Munar are on the Day 2 Schedule at Hamburg Open 2024 on Tuesday 16 July 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?
[5] Arthur Fils from France and Jaume Munar from Spain are going to face each other for the first time at the tour-level. However, they have previously met at the ATP Masters 1000 Paris qualifiers, where Fils defeated Munar with a score of 6-3 6-3 on hard court.
Arthur Fils, who is currently 20 years old, holds a career-high ranking of World No. 28. In 2024, he has achieved a win-loss record of 19-17, including a semifinal appearance in Auckland and a 3-1 record in Hamburg, where he reached the semifinals in 2023.
Fils has achieved his career-high ranking 13 times in 2023, breaking into the Top 200 in January, Top 100 in May, and Top 50 in July. His highest ranking so far has been No.28 in July 2024, which he reached after reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon, his first Grand Slam appearance.
Notably, Fils became the youngest Frenchman to win an ATP Tour title since Gael Monfils in 2005 when he won the Lyon title in 2023 as the No.112-ranked wildcard player, defeating F. Cerundolo. In February 2023, Fils also became the youngest Frenchman to reach an ATP Tour semifinal since Gasquet in 2004, achieving this feat at the 2023 Montpellier tournament, where he lost to Sinner. He later advanced to the semifinals again at the 2023 Marseille tournament, where he lost to Bonzi.
Fils made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Paris after qualifying and defeating Munar and Fognini, both of whom were ranked in the Top 60. However, he lost to [LL] Fognini in the first round. Similarly, in 2021, as a 16-year-old and ranked 1,035th, Fils defeated former Top-20 player Tomic in his Grand Slam qualifying debut at Roland Garros. He also reached the boys’ singles final (lost to Van Assche) and won the boys’ doubles title with Mpetshi Perricard, reaching a career-high No. 3 ranking in the junior rankings during the 2021 season.
Fils recently achieved a career-high ranking of No. 28 after reaching
the fourth round at Wimbledon and defeating No. 7 Hurkacz in the second round. Fils had his biggest win of his career at the 2023 Hamburg tournament, where he defeated No. 4 Ruud (6-0 6-4) in the quarterfinals to reach his sixth ATP Tour semifinal, where he lost to Zverev.
On the other hand, Jaume Munar, aged 27, currently holds a ranking of World No. 59, with a career-high ranking of No. 52 reached in May 2019. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 12-16, including two quarterfinal appearances. Munar’s record in Hamburg is 1-2, with his best result being a second-round appearance in 2015.
Munar, a former World No. 3 junior player, reached the semifinals of the 2018 Next Gen ATP Finals. He finished 2022 with a year-end high ranking of No. 58 after earning a personal-best 19 wins and qualifying for four ATP Masters 1000 events.
In terms of notable wins, Munar defeated his compatriot Alcaraz before losing to Carreno Busta in his first ATP Tour final at the 2021 Marbella tournament. He also has two wins over Top-10 players, defeating No. 3 Zverev at the 2019 Marrakech tournament and No. 3 Ruud at the 2022 Tokyo tournament.
Munar has a considerable record in Challengers, with 132 wins and 69 losses, including 9-7 in finals. He recently won a clay-court title at the 2023 San Marino tournament.
During his junior career, Munar reached the boys’ singles final at the 2014 Roland Garros and won the boys’ doubles title in 2015 alongside countryman Lopez San Martin.
Munar is currently seeking his second Top 30 win of the season (1-7), with his previous win coming against No. 22 F. Cerundolo in Cordoba en route to his first quarterfinal appearance in 2024 at Santiago. Notably, Munar has struggled in deciding sets, losing all seven on the tour-level this year.
The upcoming match between Arthur Fils and Jaume Munar will take place at the Rothenbaum Tennis Stadium in Hamburg, Germany from July 15th to 21st, 2024.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Fils will win.
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