

What Time Will Alejandro Davidovich Fokina Play Against Brandon Holt?
Fokina and Holt are on the Day 1 Schedule at Dallas Open 2025 on Monday 3 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?
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, a 25-year-old Spanish tennis player, is set to face off against Brandon Holt from the USA. This will be their first meeting on the court. Currently, Davidovich Fokina is ranked 59th in the world, with a career-high ranking of 21. In 2025, he has a record of 4 wins and 3 losses, with his best performance being reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open. This tournament will mark his debut at this particular event.
In August 2023, Davidovich Fokina achieved his career-high ranking of 21. He also managed to improve his year-end ranking for the eighth consecutive year, finishing at No. 26 in 2023. One of the highlights of his career was defeating Novak Djokovic in the Monte Carlo Masters in 2022. He broke Djokovic’s serve a record-breaking nine times in a best-of-three-set match. This win propelled him to his first ATP Tour final. Davidovich Fokina’s breakthrough performances include reaching the quarterfinals of the Roland Garros in 2021 and the Monte Carlo Masters in the same year. Notably, he had an impressive five-set victory over Ruud in the third round of the Roland Garros.
Before turning professional, Davidovich Fokina had a successful junior career. In 2017, he ended his junior career as the World No. 2 after winning the Wimbledon boys’ singles title. He had an outstanding record of 20 wins and only one loss that year. Outside of tennis, Davidovich Fokina has a passion for cats and has two of them. He also launched Adoptas.org, a pet adoption platform in 2021, which aims to connect individuals looking to adopt or foster pets with shelters and rescues across Spain. It is worth noting that Davidovich Fokina is the first Spanish player to compete in the Dallas tournament since it moved in 2022. In his most recent event, the Australian Open, he won three consecutive matches, achieving this feat for the first time since the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Toronto.
On the other side of the net, we have Brandon Holt, a 26-year-old American player. Holt, the son of the former WTA World No. 1 Tracy Austin, reached his career-high ranking of 179 in February 2024. He recently claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour title at the Nonthaburi-3 tournament in 2025. Prior to this victory, he had reached the finals at the Indian Wells-1 and Tyler tournaments in 2024. Holt has also been successful on the ITF World Tennis Tour, winning a total of eight titles. He notably had a remarkable winning streak of 15 matches in Cancun at the start of the 2022 season.
In terms of Grand Slam performances, Holt has made it through qualifying in his first two appearances. He even managed to defeat the 12th-ranked player, Taylor Fritz, in the first round of the 2022 US Open. Apart from his professional career, Holt had a successful college tennis experience at the University of Southern California. He was a four-time All-American from 2017 to 2020 and was named the Pac-12 Singles Player of the Year in 2019. As a junior player, Holt reached the finals of the 2015 US Open boys’ doubles, partnering with R. Smith as a wild card entry.
In this match, Holt is seeking his third tour-level win. He has previously defeated the 12th-ranked player, Taylor Fritz, at the 2022 US Open and No. 146 Vukic at the 2023 Australian Open. Recently, Holt claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour title by emerging as the champion in Nonthaburi, defeating Kopriva.
In summary, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Brandon Holt will be facing each other for the first time in their careers. Davidovich Fokina, a Spanish player, has achieved significant milestones, including a career-high ranking of 21, defeating Djokovic, and reaching the quarterfinals of Grand Slam tournaments. Holt, an American player, comes from a tennis family and has had success in both the professional and collegiate tennis circuits. This match will be an exciting opportunity for both players to showcase their skills and fight for the win.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Fokina will win.
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