Prediction Of Goffin Vs Rune H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Swiss Indoors Basel 2024?

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Goffin and Rune are on the Day 5 Schedule at Swiss Indoors Basel 2024 on Friday 25 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?

In the first meeting between David Goffin from Belgium and Holger Rune from Denmark, there are some notable facts about each player. Goffin, aged 33, is currently ranked 54th in the world with a career-high ranking of 7th. In 2017, he had a remarkable season, earning a career-high 59 wins and finishing the year at his career-high ranking after defeating Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer en route to the Nitto ATP Finals championship match. Goffin also became the sixth and final player to defeat both Nadal and Federer at the same event, joining the likes of Davydenko, Del Potro, Djokovic, Murray, and Nalbandian. He was the first Belgian to break into the top 10, qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals, defeat a world number 1 player, and reach an ATP Masters 1000 final, achieved in Cincinnati in 2019. In 2022, Goffin achieved his 300th victory and secured his 6th ATP Tour title in Marrakech. Additionally, he recorded his 3rd win over a world number 1 player by defeating Carlos Alcaraz in the first round in Astana. Goffin has reached 4 Grand Slam quarterfinals, most recently at Wimbledon in 2022, and has led Belgium to the Davis Cup finals in 2015 and 2017. Notably, in the current tournament, Goffin saved 3 match points to defeat the 5th seed Ugo Humbert in the second round. He will be aiming for his 33rd ATP Tour semifinal and his third in Basel, with previous appearances being a finalist in 2014 and a semifinalist in 2017. Goffin is currently ranked 50th on the PIF ATP Live Rankings and, with a quarterfinal win, has the opportunity to climb to 45th. He aims to return to the top 50 for the first time since April of last year, after falling as low as 134th in February of this year.

On the other hand, Holger Rune, aged 21, is currently ranked 14th in the world, with a career-high ranking of 4th. He has had a remarkable rise in the rankings, breaking into the top 100 in January 2022, the top 50 in May 2022, and the top 10 in November 2022. Rune is the highest-ranked Dane in PIF ATP Rankings history, reaching 4th in August 2023. At the age of 19, he captured the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Paris title, becoming the first player since the start of the ATP Tour in 1990 to earn 5 top-10 wins at an event other than the Nitto ATP Finals. From Paris in 2022 to Rome in 2023, Rune had an impressive record of 18 wins and 5 losses in 6 ATP Masters 1000 events. He reached the runner-up position in Monte Carlo, losing to Rublev, and in Rome, losing to Medvedev. Rune also went on a streak of 7 consecutive wins against top 5 opponents before losing to Medvedev in the final of the Rome ATP Masters 1000 in 2023. He ended the 2022 season with a strong run of 19 wins and 2 losses, although he had a slow start with a record of 1-6 in January-February and 0-7 in June-July. Rune made history by upsetting Stefanos Tsitsipas in the 2022 Roland Garros, becoming the first Danish man to reach the quarterfinals in the tournament’s history since 1925 and the first Danish man to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal in the Open Era since 1968. This is Rune’s third appearance in Basel, with him reaching the final in 2022 and the semifinals in 2023, losing to Auger-Aliassime on both occasions. In the current tournament, he aims to reach his 20th ATP Tour semifinal and become the fourth man to achieve 7+ tour-level semifinals this season.

Additionally, there is a list of players with the most semifinals on the 2024 ATP Tour, in which both Jannik Sinner and Taylor Fritz lead with 11 semifinals. Alexander Zverev, Daniil Medvedev, Casper Ruud, Lorenzo Musetti, Carlos Alcaraz, Tommy Paul, Novak Djokovic, and Holger Rune all have 6 semifinals each. It is noteworthy that Alexander Zverev and Lorenzo Musetti are playing in the Vienna quarterfinals on Friday, while Andrey Rublev is looking for his 6th semifinal of the season in Basel.

Overall, Goffin and Rune have notable achievements and impressive performances leading up to their first meeting in Basel.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Goffin will win.
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