

What Time Will Aleksandar Kovacevic Play Against Felix Auger-Aliassime?
Kovacevic and Auger-Aliassime are on the Day 7 Schedule at Open Occitanie 2025 on Sunday 2 February 2025. 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 upcoming match, Aleksandar Kovacevic from the USA will be facing off against Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada. Auger-Aliassime currently leads their head-to-head record by 1-0. The match will take place at the ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati tournament on a hard court in round 64. In their previous encounter, Auger-Aliassime emerged victorious with a score of 6-3 6-1.
Aleksandar Kovacevic is 26 years old and currently ranked as World No. 102. He reached his career-high ranking of No. 72 in September 2024. Throughout his career, he has a win-loss record of 20-32, with one final appearance. In this event, he has a perfect record of 4-0, leading to him reaching the final.
Kovacevic’s notable achievements include defeating his compatriot, McDonald, to reach the semifinals of the 2022 Seoul ATP Tour main draw as a 222nd-ranked lucky loser. He also secured his biggest career victory against No. 10 Rublev to reach his first ATP Tour final at the 2025 Montpellier tournament. Furthermore, he has won Challenger titles at Cleveland, Waco, Shenzhen, and Temuco in 2023, with highlights including a win over Wu Yibing in the Cleveland final. His latest title win was at the 2025 Oeiras-2 tournament.
In Grand Slam events, Kovacevic made his debut at the 2023 Roland Garros, where he lost in the first round to eventual champion Djokovic. He earned his first Grand Slam win at the 2024 Australian Open against Tabilo. Prior to turning professional, Kovacevic played five years of college tennis at the University of Illinois, where he achieved the status of a 2-time All-American. He graduated in 2021 with a finance degree.
It is worth noting that Kovacevic had an impressive run in this tournament, defeating the defending champion Bublik in the quarterfinals and No. 10 Rublev in the semifinals, marking the biggest wins of his career. Additionally, he would become the second first-time ATP Tour champion of the season after Muller in Hong Kong. Kovacevic has a record of 2-9 against top 30 players, with wins over No. 13 Norrie in the 2023 Los Cabos 2nd round. If he wins the final, he would rise to No. 68 in the ATP Live Rankings, securing a new career-high.
On the other hand, Felix Auger-Aliassime is 24 years old, currently ranked as World No. 23. He achieved his career-high ranking of No. 6 and had a breakthrough season in 2022, recording 60 wins, including a 16-match win streak and winning three titles in consecutive weeks at Florence, Antwerp, and Basel. In that same year, he won the Rotterdam title, reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, and secured team titles at the ATP Cup, Laver Cup, and Davis Cup. With 45 hard-court wins and 31 indoor wins, Auger-Aliassime led the ATP Tour in these categories in 2022. Notable victories include defeating No. 1 Alcaraz and former No. 1s Djokovic, Murray, and Nadal.
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Varvara Gracheva
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Anhelina Kalinina
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Auger-Aliassime made history as the first Canadian men’s singles semifinalist at the 2021 US Open and the first Canadian ATP Masters 1000 finalist on clay at the 2024 Madrid tournament. In 2019, he became the youngest Top-25 player since Hewitt in 1999, the youngest ATP 500 finalist in series history at Rio de Janeiro in 2019, and the youngest semi-finalist in Miami tournament history in 2019.
In the current season, Auger-Aliassime is aiming to win his seventh ATP Tour title. He has a record of 6-10 in finals, with five of his titles being won indoors. He already secured one title in 2025 at Adelaide, defeating Korda. Since the start of the 2022 season, he has a record of 6-2 in finals, with his only losses coming against Rublev at the 2022 Marseille and 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Madrid tournaments. Auger-Aliassime has a perfect record of 14-0 against players ranked outside the top 100 since his loss to No. 119 Mmoh in the 2023 Wimbledon 1st round. He also has an 8-0 record against American players since the start of the 2024 season and has won all six tie-breaks he has played in 2025. If he wins the final, he would become the first player to win multiple ATP Tour titles in the season.
Moving on to the doubles final, the pair of Robin Haase and Botic van de Zandschulp from the Netherlands will face off against Tallon Griekspoor and Bart Stevens, also from the Netherlands. This is the second all-Dutch ATP Tour doubles final in the Open Era, with the first one being in 1991 when Hendrik Jan Davids and Paul Haarhuis defeated Richard Krajicek and Jan Siemerink.
Robin Haase and Botic van de Zandschulp have a team record of 13-5, with a perfect record of 3-0 in 2025. They made their tour-level debut at the 2022 Australian Open, where they defeated the 14th-seeded duo of Arevalo/Rojer in the first round. This will be their third ATP Tour final as a team, previously reaching the finals of the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 Rome competition and the 2024 Rotterdam tournament. They saved a match point in the first round and upset defending champions and top-seeds in the quarterfinals of the Montpellier doubles event. Haase previously won the Montpellier doubles title in 2023 with Middelkoop, and if they win, they would be the first all-Dutch team to win an ATP Tour title since Haase/Middelkoop at the 2023 Montpellier tournament.
Tallon Griekspoor and Bart Stevens have a team record of 11-12, with a perfect record of 3-0 in 2025. They made their ATP Tour debut together at the 2022 Kitzbuhel tournament and reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon 2023, where they upset the 3rd-seeded pair of Ram/Salisbury in the first round. This is their first ATP Tour final together. They defeated WC Cazaux/Wawrinka in the first round and the 4th-seeded pair of Arends/Johnson in the semifinals. If they win, they would also become the first all-Dutch team to win an ATP Tour title since Haase/Middelkoop at the 2023 Montpellier tournament.
Overall, both the singles and doubles finals promise exciting matches between these talented players.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Kovacevic will win.
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