Who Will Win: Monfils Vs Alcaraz? Prediction For ATP Cincinnati Open 2024

What Time Will Gael Monfils Play Against Carlos Alcaraz?

Monfils and Alcaraz are on the Day 4 Schedule at Cincinnati Open 2024 on Thursday 15 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?

In their previous meetings, Carlos Alcaraz from Spain has a 2-0 head-to-head record against Gael Monfils from France. The first match took place at the ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells in the Round of 16, with Alcaraz winning 7-5 6-1. The second match was at the ATP Masters 1000 Miami in the Round of 32, where Alcaraz again emerged victorious with a score of 6-2 6-4.

Gael Monfils, aged 37, is currently ranked World No. 46. He reached his career-high ranking of No. 6 in 2016. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 19-17, with 2 semi-final appearances. Monfils has 12 ATP Tour titles, including ATP 500 victories at the 2016 Washington, 2019 Rotterdam, and 2020 Rotterdam tournaments. He has reached at least one final in 19 consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2023, including ATP Masters 1000 finals at the 2009 Paris, 2010 Paris, and 2016 Monte Carlo events. Throughout his career, Monfils has earned 559 victories, notable among them being wins over World No. 1 players Rafael Nadal at the 2009 Doha and Daniil Medvedev at the 2022 Indian Wells. He also holds the record for his longest win streaks of 12 matches and 25 sets in 2020. As a junior player, Monfils won titles at the Australian Open, Roland Garros, and Wimbledon in 2004. It is worth mentioning that Monfils has a career record of 8-40 against top-three players, with his most recent victory against a top-three player being against Medvedev at the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells in the Round of 32. He aims to become the second oldest player this century to defeat a top-three player, with the only player achieving this feat being Roger Federer, who defeated World No. 2 Novak Djokovic in the round-robin stage of the 2019 Nitto ATP Finals when he was 38 years old.

Carlos Alcaraz, aged 21, is currently ranked World No. 3, reaching his career-high ranking of No. 1. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of

38-7, including 3 titles. He has a win-loss record of 6-3 in Cincinnati, with a final appearance in 2023. Alcaraz is the youngest player to ever attain the No. 1 ranking in the PIF ATP Rankings and also became the youngest year-end No. 1 in history, achieving this feat in September 2022 at the age of 19. He remained the top-ranked player through the end of the season and held the position for a total of 36 weeks. Alcaraz won his third Grand Slam title at the 2024 Roland Garros, defeating Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals and Alexander Zverev in the final. At the age of 21, he became the youngest man to win Grand Slam titles on all three surfaces. He also won back-to-back Wimbledon titles by defeating the 7-time champion Novak Djokovic in consecutive finals in 2023 and 2024. Alcaraz secured the No. 1 ranking by defeating Casper Ruud in the 2022 US Open final, becoming the youngest men’s champion at the tournament since Pete Sampras in 1990 and the youngest champion at any Grand Slam event since Rafael Nadal at the 2005 Roland Garros. Alcaraz also holds the record for being the youngest ATP 500 champion at the 2022 Rio de Janeiro tournament and the third-youngest ATP Masters 1000 champion at the 2022 Miami tournament. In 2022, he became the youngest player to defeat both Nadal and Djokovic at the same clay-court event, beating them on consecutive days en route to winning his second ATP Masters 1000 title in Madrid. This will be Alcaraz’s first match since earning a silver medal at the Paris Olympics. In his career, he has a 13-1 record against French players, with his only loss coming against Hugo Gaston in the third round of the 2021 ATP Masters 1000 Paris, and he is undefeated against French opponents since then.

The match between Gael Monfils and Carlos Alcaraz will take place at the P&G Grandstand in the ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells tournament.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Monfils will win.
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