Who Will Win: Hurkacz Vs Cobolli? Prediction For ATP Cincinnati Open 2024

What Time Will Hubert Hurkacz Play Against Flavio Cobolli?

Hurkacz and Cobolli are on the Day 5 Schedule at Cincinnati Open 2024 on Friday 16 August 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?

3R: [5] Hubert Hurkacz (POL) vs Flavio Cobolli (ITA)

Hubert Hurkacz leads the head to head 1-0 against Flavio Cobolli. Their previous meeting was in the round of 32 at Halle (Germany) on grass, where Hurkacz won 7-5 7-6(2).

Here are some facts about Hubert Hurkacz:
– He is 27 years old and currently ranked World No. 7.
– His career-high ranking is No. 6, achieved in August 2024.
– In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 37-15, including a title at Estoril and a semi-final appearance in Cincinnati in 2023.
– Hurkacz ended the year-end rankings in 2021 and 2023 at a career-high No. 9 after participating in the Nitto ATP Finals.
– He entered the 2021 Wimbledon on a 6-match losing streak but managed to reach his first Grand Slam semi-final by defeating 8-time champion Roger Federer in his last singles match.
– Hurkacz pulled off upsets against 5 seeded players to win the 2021 ATP Masters 1000 Miami title and saved a championship point to win the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai title after losing in the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Montreal final.
– He has also reached the semi-finals of ATP Masters 1000 events in Paris (2021), Miami (2022), and Cincinnati (2023), and has won two ATP Masters 1000 doubles titles in Paris (2020) with Auger-Aliassime and Miami (2022) with Isner.
– In 2022, he defeated world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev in straight sets to win his fifth ATP Tour singles title at Halle.

Regarding the match against Cobolli, Hurkacz aims to reach his 15th ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final, his third of 2024 after Rome and Montreal.

Additionally, he is looking to reach his second quarter-final at the event, having reached the semi-finals last year but losing to Alcaraz despite holding 1 match point.

Now let’s look at some facts about Flavio Cobolli:
– He is 22 years old and currently ranked World No. 31, which is his career-high ranking achieved in August 2024.
– Cobolli broke into the Top 200 in January 2022 and the Top 100 in October 2023. Shortly after reaching his first ATP Tour final in Washington, he reached his career-high ranking.
– His biggest wins include defeating Americans Shelton (No. 15) to reach his first ATP Tour semi-final at Geneva and defeating Shelton again (No. 14) to reach his first final in Washington. He also defeated Paul (No. 13) at the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati.
– He achieved his first Grand Slam round of 16 at the 2024 Australian Open, defeating Jarry (No. 18) for his first Top 20 win of his career.
– Cobolli saved 3 match points against Giron in his ATP Tour main draw debut at Parma in 2021, where he won 3-6 7-6 7-6 as a 429th-ranked wildcard.
– He has won Challenger titles at Zadar (2022) and Lisbon (2023), and reached finals at Rome-2 (2021), Barletta (2021), and Olbia (2023).
– In his junior career, Cobolli peaked at No. 8 and won the 2020 Roland Garros boys’ doubles title with Stricker.

In this match against Hurkacz, Cobolli aims to secure his first Top 10 win of his career (currently 0-4) and reach his seventh ATP Tour quarter-final (currently 2-4). This would be his first quarter-final at the ATP Masters 1000 level.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Hurkacz will win.
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