Felix Auger Aliassime and James Duckworth will play each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1 pm on Court 3. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felix Auger Aliassime who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Felix Auger Aliassime is the pick to win this match.
Felix Auger Aliassime -> 1.146
James Duckworth -> 5.9

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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger Aliassime vs. James Duckworth

This will be the 3rd time that Felix Auger Aliassime and James Duckworth square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Auger-Aliassime and Duckworth (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Auger-Aliassime won 6-3 7-6(0) in the 2nd round in Adelaide back in 2020.

Felix Auger Aliassime

Ranked no. 19, Auger-Aliassime reached the 2nd round after defeating Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 6-2 6-4 6-2.

In the 1st round, Felix had a good straight sets win against Stebe (6-2 6-4 6-2). During the match Auger-Aliassime scored 87 points vs Stebe’s 57. Auger-Aliassime was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Regarding the service games, Auger-Aliassime managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Felix Auger Aliassime was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (37/49) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Canadian broke Stebe 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).

Auger-Aliassime has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 65% of his matches (208-113). 5-1 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Auger-Aliassime has a 69-44 match record in the last 7 years on hard.

Auger-Aliassime’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Melbourne.

Felix has a 5-1 win-loss record in 2021, 5-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

The Canadian lost in the 1st round to Ernests Gulbis.

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 105, James got to the 2nd round after beating Damir Dzumhur 6-3 6-2 6-4.

In the 1st round, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Dzumhur (6-3 6-2 6-4). During the match Duckworth scored 96 points vs Dzumhur’s 74. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Duckworth blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, James Duckworth was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (34/48) of his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. James broke Dzumhur 6 times after converting 40% of his break points (6/15).

Duckworth has a 3-1 win-loss record in 2021, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the Australian Open

James had to surrender in the 1st round to Aljaz Bedene.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Auger-Aliassime Duckworth
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 26 27
Pts 87-57 96-74
Total Points 144 170
Winners 37 34
%Winners 43% 35%

Both Auger-Aliassime and Duckworth played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Auger-Aliassime and Duckworth have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Auger-Aliassime played 1 game less than Duckworth. The Canadian scored 37 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, James fired 34 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve Auger-Aliassime Duckworth
Aces 7 6
Avg per match 7 6
1st in 49/69 48/81
%1st in 71% 59%
1st pts 37/49 34/48
%1st pts 76% 71%
2nd pts 14/20 20/33
%2nd pts 70% 61%

Auger-Aliassime struck 7 aces . Duckworth managed to score 6 aces . Auger-Aliassime won 76% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Duckworth won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Auger-Aliassime Duckworth
Won 6 6
Converted 6/9 6/15
% Converted 67% 40%
Conceded 1 3
Saved 0 1
% Saved 0% 33%
Times Broken 1 2

Auger-Aliassime broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Felix conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponent 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. James conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Auger-Aliassime
R1
Stebe		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4 6-2
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 26 26
pts 87-57 87-57
Total points 144 144
Winners 37 37
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 7 7
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 49/69 49/69
% 1st in 71% 71%
1st pts 37/49 37/49
% 1st pts 76% 76%
2nd pts 14/20 14/20
% 2nd pts 70% 70%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/9 6/9
Converted % 67% 67%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Duckworth
R1
Dzumhur		 Total
Score 6-3 6-2 6-4
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 27 27
pts 96-74 96-74
Total points 170 170
Winners 34 34
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 6 6
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 48/81 48/81
% 1st in 59% 59%
1st pts 34/48 34/48
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 20/33 20/33
% 2nd pts 61% 61%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/15 6/15
Converted % 40% 40%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 1/3 1
Saved % 33% 33%
Times Broken 2 2

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open

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