Who Will Win: Tien Vs Busta? Prediction For ATP Winston-salem Open 2024

What Time Will Learner Tien Play Against Pablo Carreno Busta?

Tien and Busta are on the Day 5 Schedule at Winston-salem Open 2024 on Thursday 22 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 first meeting, Learner Tien from the USA will be facing Pablo Carreno Busta from Spain. Tien is 18 years old and currently ranked 230th in the world, which is his career-high ranking. In 2024, Tien has a 3-0 record in the Winston-Salem event, reaching the quarterfinals. He also has a 3-0 record overall in 2024.

At the age of 16 in May 2022, Tien earned his first ranking point by advancing to the semifinals in Orange Park on the ITF World Tennis Tour. He has received wildcard entries to the US Open in 2022, 2023, and 2024. He earned his 2024 wildcard by winning the US Open Wild Card Challenge, and the previous two wildcards were awarded to him as the USTA Boys’ 18s national champion.

Tien has a 16-7 record on the ATP Challenger Tour and won his first title at the 2024 Bloomfield Hills tournament. He had an impressive winning streak of 28 matches from May to July 2024, winning titles at the M15 San Diego twice, M15 Rancho Santa Fe, M15 Lakewood, and the Challenger title in Bloomfield Hills.

In the ITF Junior Circuit, Tien achieved a career-high ranking of No. 4 soon after reaching the finals of the 2023 Australian Open and US Open boys’ singles, where he lost to Blockx and Fonseca, respectively. He also won the 2023 Australian Open boys’ doubles title with Cooper Williams by defeating Blocx/Fonseca in the final.

Tien aims to become the youngest American man to reach the ATP Tour semifinals since Fritz at the 2016 Memphis tournament. He secured his first ATP Tour win by defeating Schoolkate in the first round and claimed his biggest win

of his career so far by defeating No. 49 Marozsan in the second round to reach his first ATP Tour quarterfinal. Currently, Tien is ranked 191st on the PIF ATP Live Rankings, and a quarterfinal win would elevate him to No. 162.

On the other hand, Pablo Carreno Busta is 33 years old and currently ranked 299th in the world. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 10 in singles and No. 16 in doubles during the 2017 season. Carreno Busta has won a total of 7 singles and 4 doubles titles.

In 2022, he won the Montreal championship, becoming the 15th different Spaniard to win an ATP Masters 1000 title since the start of the series in 1990. Carreno Busta also achieved notable victories in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, defeating No. 1 Djokovic and No. 2 Medvedev to win a bronze medal.

He reached the semifinals at the US Open and quarterfinals at Roland Garros in both 2017 and 2020. In the 2016 US Open, he reached the doubles final with his compatriot Garcia-Lopez. Carreno Busta was a member of the 2019 Davis Cup championship team and helped Team Spain reach the ATP Cup finals in 2020 (with a 5-1 record in doubles) and 2022 (with a 4-1 record in singles).

Carreno Busta defeated Vukic in the third round of the tournament, which marked his 18th match win, breaking the tournament’s record. He aims to reach his third Winston-Salem semifinal, having won the title in 2016 and reaching the semifinals in 2018 (losing to Steve Johnson). Additionally, Carreno Busta is looking to reach his first ATP Tour semifinal since capturing the 2022 ATP Masters 1000 Montreal title.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Tien will win.
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