Who Will Win: Galan Vs Tiafoe? Prediction For ATP Mubadala Citi Dc Open 2024

What Time Will Daniel Elahi Galan Play Against Frances Tiafoe?

Galan and Tiafoe are on the Day 2 Schedule at Mubadala Citi Dc Open 2024 on Tuesday 30 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?

2R: Daniel Elahi Galan (COL) vs [5] Frances Tiafoe (USA) First Meeting.

This match between Daniel Elahi Galan and Frances Tiafoe will be their first meeting on the ATP Tour.

Insights from their 52-week averages:
– Galan has a 25% conversion rate in attack, while Tiafoe has a slightly higher rate of 67%.
– Both players have a 32% steal score.
– In terms of serve quality, Galan has an average of 8.0, while Tiafoe’s average is 8.0 as well.
– Tiafoe has a higher return quality average of 7.4 compared to Galan’s 6.6.
– Tiafoe also has an advantage in shot quality with an average of 7.0 for his backhand and 6.5 for his forehand. Galan’s averages are slightly lower at 6.3 for his forehand and 6.1 for his backhand.
– The tour average for these metrics is a 25% conversion rate in attack, a 66% steal score, a 34% score in serve quality, a 7.9 return quality average, a 7.6 forehand quality average, and a 7.2 backhand quality average.

The insights show that Tiafoe has an advantage over Galan in shot quality and conversion rates. This difference in groundstrokes is due to their use of direction. Galan tends to target the middle with 26% of his shots, while Tiafoe focuses elsewhere, with only 16% through the middle zone.

Daniel Elahi Galan is 28 years old and currently ranked 124th in the world. His career-high ranking was 56th in July 2023. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 7-15, with 2 appearances in the second round of tournaments, including the Washington tournament where he has a record of 2-1 in the second round.

Galan has achieved an improved year-end ranking in 8 consecutive seasons from 2015 to 2022. In 2022, he finished as the No. 1 Colombian player and reached a career-high ranking of 56th after advancing to the fourth round of Wimbledon where he lost to Sinner.
He has also had notable wins in his career, including defeating World No. 5 Tsitsipas at the 2022 US Open and reaching the quarterfinals and semifinals of the ATP Tour in 2019 Houston as a qualifier-wildcard.

In his debut on the ATP Tour main draw, Galan won on home soil at the 2015 Bogota

tournament as a 19-year-old wildcard. He has a record of 130-109 in Challengers, with 4 finals appearances and titles on clay courts in 2022 at Concepcion and Sarasota.

Galan recently defeated Cressy in the first round and is aiming to record consecutive ATP Tour wins for the first time since reaching the quarterfinals in Kitzbuhel in August of the previous year. However, he has not had much success against top 50 players this season, with a 0-6 record, and he is looking for his first top 50 win on hard courts since his victory over Tsitsipas in the first round of the 2022 US Open.

Frances Tiafoe, on the other hand, is 26 years old and currently ranked 29th in the world. His career-high ranking was 10th in June 2023. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 16-16, with a runner-up finish in Houston. In the Washington tournament, he has reached the quarterfinals in 2022 and 2023.

Tiafoe has had significant achievements in his career, including reaching the semifinals of the 2022 US Open where he defeated 4-time champion Nadal, becoming the first American men’s semifinalist at the event since Roddick in 2006. He has also won three ATP Tour titles, including his first at the age of 20 at the 2018 Delray Beach tournament. Tiafoe and his twin brother Franklin trained at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in Maryland, where their father worked as the Head of Maintenance after emigrating from Sierra Leone in 1996.

Tiafoe made his ATP Tour debut in Washington 10 years ago as a wildcard ranked 1139th and is now making his 8th appearance at the event. He has a strong record in opening rounds this season, with a 12-4 record overall and a 7-1 record on hard courts.

In summary, this upcoming match between Galan and Tiafoe will be their first meeting on the ATP Tour. Tiafoe has an advantage in shot quality and conversion rates, while Galan aims to record consecutive ATP Tour wins and secure his first top 50 win on hard courts this season. Tiafoe has had notable achievements in his career, including reaching the semifinals of the US Open and winning three ATP Tour titles.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Galan will win.
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