Prediction Of Tiafoe Vs Vukic H2H, Who Will Win At ATP Almaty Open 2024?

What Time Will Frances Tiafoe Play Against Aleksandar Vukic?

Tiafoe and Vukic are on the Day 5 Schedule at Almaty Open 2024 on Friday 18 October 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?

Frances Tiafoe from the USA will be facing off against Aleksandar Vukic from Australia in their first-ever tour-level meeting. However, they have previously met in the 2020 Dallas CH tournament, where Tiafoe emerged as the winner with a score of 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-4 on the hard court.

Tiafoe, currently 26 years old, is ranked as the World No. 15. He achieved his career-high ranking of No. 10 in June 2023 after securing his third title in Stuttgart on grass. During that tournament, he saved one match point against Jan-Lennard Struff in the final, earning him ATP Tour titles on all three surfaces. In the 2023 season, he joined Taylor Fritz in the Top 10 rankings, making it the first time two Americans were ranked in the Top 10 since 2012. Tiafoe’s notable achievements include defeating four-time champion Rafael Nadal en route to the 2022 US Open semi-finals, making him the first American men’s semi-finalist since Andy Roddick in 2006. He also played a crucial role in leading Team World to victory in the 2022 Laver Cup, where he and Jack Sock defeated Roger Federer and Nadal in the final match before clinching the cup with a win over Stefanos Tsitsipas. Tiafoe reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final at the 2024 Cincinnati tournament, earning his 200th career win and saving two match points against Holger Rune in the semi-finals. As a 20-year-old, he won his first ATP Tour title at the 2018 Delray Beach tournament, becoming the youngest American champion since Roddick’s victory at the 2002 Houston tournament. In addition, Tiafoe won his second ATP Tour title at the 2023 Houston tournament. Tiafoe’s parents emigrated from Sierra Leone in 1996, and his father worked as the Head of Maintenance at the Junior Tennis Champions Center in Maryland, where Frances and his twin brother Franklin trained as children. In the current tournament, Tiafoe aims to reach his 18th tour-level semi-final, which would be his sixth of 2024. If he achieves this, he will become the fourth player to reach five or more hard court semi-finals this season, joining Adrian Mannarino as the only players to have achieved multiple semi-finals in the history of the tournament.

Aleksandar Vukic, 28 years old from Australia, is currently ranked as the World No. 85. He broke into the Top 200 in March 2020, just before the COVID-19 suspension of the ATP Tour, and reached the Top 100 in May 2023. Vukic achieved his career-high ranking of No. 48 in August 2023, shortly after reaching his first ATP Tour final at the 2023 Atlanta tournament. In the 2024 Eastbourne tournament, Vukic entered as a lucky loser (LL) and advanced to his second ATP Tour semi-final by defeating Yoshihito Nishioka in the quarter-finals, who had previously defeated him in the qualifying rounds. He also qualified for the 2024 ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai tournament, where he achieved his biggest career win by defeating World No. 9 Casper Ruud, earning him a place in the third round. Vukic has won Challenger titles at the 2022 Bengaluru-2 and the 2023 Busan tournaments, and reached the finals of the Challenger tournaments in 2021 and 2022 in Champaign. He was a three-time All-American for the University of Illinois from 2015 to 2018. Vukic was born in Sydney, Australia, after his parents and older brother fled Montenegro during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In terms of his matches against top-ranked players, Vukic has a record of 2-13 against the top 20 players. His wins include defeating No. 15 Borna Coric at the 2023 Toronto ATP Masters 1000 event and No. 9 Casper Ruud in Shanghai earlier this month. In the current tournament, Vukic aims to reach his third ATP Tour semi-final, with a record of 1 win and 1 loss in previous semi-finals.

Overall, this match between Tiafoe and Vukic presents an interesting clash between the World No. 15 and the World No. 85, with Tiafoe aiming for his 18th tour-level semi-final and Vukic seeking to secure his third ATP Tour semi-final.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Tiafoe will win.
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