

What Time Will David Goffin Play Against Marcos Giron?
Goffin and Giron are on the Day 7 Schedule at Rolex Shanghai Masters 2024 on Tuesday 8 October 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?
David Goffin (BEL) and Marcos Giron (USA) have faced each other twice before, with Giron leading the head-to-head 2-0. Their previous matches took place at the 2020 Antwerp (Belgium) tournament, where Giron won 6-3 7-5, and the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati (U.S.A.) event, where Giron won 6-3 6-4.
David Goffin, aged 33, is currently ranked World No. 66 and has a career-high ranking of No. 7. In 2024, he has a record of 13-14, reaching the semifinals of the Winston-Salem tournament. In 2017, Goffin achieved a career-high 59 wins and ended the season at No. 7 after defeating Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer en route to the Nitto ATP Finals championship match. He became the 6th and final player to beat both Nadal and Federer at the same event. Goffin was the first Belgian to break into the top 10, qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, defeat the World No. 1, and reach an ATP Masters 1000 final, which he accomplished in 2019 in Cincinnati. In 2022, he earned his 300th victory, captured his 6th ATP Tour title in Marrakech, and recorded his 3rd win over the World No. 1 by defeating Carlos Alcaraz in the Astana tournament. Goffin has advanced to 4 Grand Slam quarterfinals, with the most recent being in 2022 at Wimbledon, and has led Belgium to the Davis Cup finals in 2015 and 2017. His recent notable wins include defeating No. 18 Musetti in the 2nd round of a tournament, his first top 20 win since October 2022, and defeating No. 19 Schwartzman in the 2nd round of the Antwerp tournament. Goffin aims to advance to the ATP Masters 1000 round of 16 for the first time since the 2022 Madrid tournament and the first time on hard courts since the 2020 Cincinnati tournament (held in New York).
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Fabian Marozsan
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Linda Noskova
Bianca Vanessa Andreescu
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Francisco Cerundolo
Alexander Shevchenko
Alexander Zverev
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Elina Svitolina
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Jacob Fearnley
Alex De Minaur
Holger Rune
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Marcos Giron, aged 31, is currently ranked World No. 47 and has a career-high ranking of No. 37, which he achieved in August 2024. In 2024, he has a record of 22-22, winning the Newport title. Giron has a record of 3-1 in the Shanghai tournament. He is one of three former UCLA Bruins to break into the top 50 during the 2022 season, along with Cressy and McDonald. Giron won his first ATP Tour title at the Newport tournament, where he saved one match point in the final. He reached his first ATP Tour final at the age of 29 in his home state of California at the 2022 San Diego tournament. Giron has qualified for 10 ATP Masters 1000 events, including the 2023 Toronto tournament, where he earned his biggest career win over No. 6 Rune in the 2nd round. He reached the 3rd round of the 2021 Roland Garros tournament after rallying from 6-2 6-4 5-1 down and saving 3 match points against Dimitrov in the 1st round. Giron won the NCAA singles title for UCLA in 2014 and broke into the top 100 in 2020 after undergoing right hip surgery in 2015 and left hip surgery in 2016. In his current tournament, Giron upset the No. 25 seed Khachanov in the 2nd round and is now looking for his 100th tour-level win of his career (99-115). He also aims to reach his fifth ATP Masters 1000 round of 16 after previously achieving this feat in the 2020-21 Paris, 2022 Rome, and 2023 Toronto tournaments.
The match between David Goffin and Marcos Giron will take place on “GRANDSTAND 2” court.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Goffin will win.
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