What Time Will Tommy Paul Play Against Felix Auger-Aliassime?
Paul and Auger-Aliassime are on the Day 5 Schedule at Adelaide International 2025 on Friday 10 January 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?
The upcoming match is between Tommy Paul from the USA and Felix Auger-Aliassime from Canada. Auger-Aliassime currently leads the head-to-head record 1-0. Their previous encounter took place at the 2023 ATP Masters 1000 in Indian Wells, where Auger-Aliassime won with a score of 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(6). They also faced each other at the 2015 US Open Juniors, where Tommy Paul came out victorious with a score of 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.
Tommy Paul is a 27-year-old American player, currently ranked as the World No. 12. He achieved his career-high ranking in October 2023 when he became the first American man to reach the Australian Open semifinals since Roddick in 2009. Paul has a record of 178 wins and 125 losses in his career, with four titles to his name. In 2020, he reached the semifinals of the Adelaide tournament with an 11-5 record. Paul has a record of 7 wins and 13 losses against players in the top 5, including a significant victory over World No. 1 Alcaraz to reach his first ATP Masters 1000 semifinals in Toronto in 2023. He achieved his first ATP Tour final and title at the 2021 Stockholm tournament, defeating his junior rivals Fritz and Tiafoe. Paul also captured his second ATP Tour title at the 2024 Dallas tournament and reached the semifinals of ATP Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Rome in the same year, defeating the defending champion Medvedev in Rome. He has caused upsets at ATP Masters 1000 events in the past, defeating Nadal, A. Zverev, and Alcaraz at different tournaments. In his junior career, Paul won the 2015 Roland Garros boys’ singles title and reached the finals of the Roland Garros boys’ doubles with Blumberg, as well as the 2015 US Open boys’ singles final (lost to Fritz). In the current tournament, Paul is seeking his eighth ATP Tour final and first since winning the Stockholm title in October last year. If he wins the semifinals, he would surpass Dimitrov to become World No. 10 on the PIF ATP Live Rankings and secure his debut in the top 10 on Monday. He would also become the 38th American player to break into the top 10 in PIF ATP Rankings history.
Felix Auger-Aliassime is a 24-year-old Canadian player currently ranked as the World No. 29. He achieved his career-high ranking of No. 6 and had a breakout season in 2022, accumulating 60 wins, including a 16-match win streak and three titles in as many weeks at Florence, Antwerp, and Basel. During that season, Auger-Aliassime also won the Rotterdam title, reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the third consecutive time, and won team titles at the ATP Cup, Laver Cup, and Davis Cup. He led the ATP Tour with 45 hard-court wins and 31 indoor wins in 2022, defeating top-ranked players like Alcaraz, Djokovic, Murray, and Nadal. In the 2024 Madrid tournament, Auger-Aliassime became the first Canadian clay court ATP Masters 1000 finalist in history. He made history at the 2021 US Open as the first Canadian men’s singles semifinalist in the tournament’s history. At just 18 years old in 2019, Auger-Aliassime became the youngest player to break into the top 25 since Hewitt in 1999. He also became the youngest ATP 500 finalist in history at the Rio de Janeiro tournament and the youngest semifinalist in the history of the Miami tournament. In the current tournament, Auger-Aliassime is aiming to reach his 16th ATP Tour final, his first since the ATP Masters 1000 in Madrid last year. He has previously reached nine finals on indoor hard courts and one on outdoor hard courts in Melbourne-2 in 2021 (lost to Evans). Auger-Aliassime is seeking his fourth consecutive win over a top 20 player, having defeated Ruud, Draper, and Fritz in recent matches.
The match will be held at War Memorial Drive in Adelaide, Australia from January 6th to 11th, 2025.
My Conclusion / Prediction:
My pick is that Paul will win.
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