

What Time Will Thanasi Kokkinakis Play Against Nuno Borges?
Kokkinakis and Borges are on the Day 4 Schedule at Us Open 2024 on Thursday 29 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?
Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nuno Borges will face each other for the first time at the tour level. However, they have previously met in the quarterfinals of the 2024 Phoenix Challenger tournament, where Borges emerged victorious with a score of 7-6(1) 6-1.
Kokkinakis, a former top-10 junior, earned his first ranking point just eight days after his 15th birthday in 2011. He achieved his career-high ranking of No. 65 at the age of 27 in 2023, improving upon his previous career-high of No. 69 which he attained at the age of 19 in 2015. He captured his first ATP Tour title in his hometown at the 2022 Adelaide-2 tournament as a wild card ranked 145th. Prior to this, he had reached his first quarterfinal, semifinal, and final at the 2017 Los Cabos tournament as a wild card ranked 454th. Notably, he upset defending champion Roger Federer in the second round of the 2018 Miami tournament when he was ranked 175th, making him the lowest-ranked player to defeat the world No. 1 since No. 178 Francisco Clavet beat Lleyton Hewitt in the second round of the 2003 Miami tournament. In addition, Kokkinakis won the 2022 Australian Open doubles title, partnering with his fellow countryman Nick Kyrgios. They defeated the pair of Ebden/Purcell in the first all-Australian Grand Slam doubles final since the 1980 Australian Open. Furthermore,
Kokkinakis advanced to three Grand Slam junior finals in 2013, winning the Wimbledon boys’ doubles title with Kyrgios and finishing as the boys’ singles runner-up.
Borges, on the other hand, became the second Portuguese man to break into the top 50 in the PIF ATP Rankings history (since 1973) in 2024. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 34 in August 2024. He achieved his first ATP Tour title at the 2024 Bastad tournament, joining the likes of Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, and Horacio Zeballos as the only players to defeat Rafael Nadal in an ATP Tour clay court final. Borges also secured the biggest win of his career by defeating No. 13 Grigor Dimitrov to reach his first Grand Slam fourth round at the 2024 Australian Open, thereby becoming the first Portuguese player to achieve this feat in the tournament’s history. In addition, Borges advanced to 10 Challenger finals, winning titles at the 2021 Antalya-3, 2022 Barletta, 2023 Monterrey, 2023-24 Phoenix, and 2023 Maia tournaments, with the latter being in his hometown. During his college career at Mississippi State University, Borges was a five-time All-American and had a notable 31-match win streak, which came to an end in his final match when he lost to Paul Jubb in the 2019 NCAA singles final.
The match between Kokkinakis and Borges will take place on Court 12.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Kokkinakis will win.
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