Felix Auger Aliassime and Karen Khachanov will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on Stadium 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karen Khachanov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.84
Felix Auger Aliassime -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger Aliassime vs. Karen Khachanov
This will be the 2nd time that Felix Auger Aliassime and Karen Khachanov clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Khachanov won 6-7(7) 7-5 6-3 in the 3rd round in Montreal back in 2019.
Felix Auger Aliassime
Ranked no. 17, the Canadian reached the 2nd round after beating Marton Fucsovics 7-60 6-3.
In the 1st round, Auger-Aliassime had a good straight sets win against Fucsovics (7-60 6-3). During the match, Auger-Aliassime scored 93 points vs Fucsovics’s 82. Auger-Aliassime was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Auger-Aliassime managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Felix Auger Aliassime lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Auger-Aliassime put 52% of his first serves in, winning 68% (30/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (18/40) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Fucsovics 5 times after converting 28% of his break points (5/18).
Auger-Aliassime has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (212-125). 12-7 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Auger-Aliassime has a composed67-48 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Felix’s best result of the year was reaching the final in Melbourne and Stuttgart.
The Canadian has a composed 26-17 win-loss record in 2021, 12-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Karen Khachanov
Ranked no. 30, Khachanov reached the 2nd round after defeating Kevin Anderson 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Karen had a good straight sets win against Anderson (6-2 6-4). During the match Khachanov scored 68 points vs Anderson’s 50. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Khachanov couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Karen Khachanov was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (21/28) of his 1st serve and 82% (18/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Karen broke Anderson 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
The Russian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Tokyo.
Karen has a compiled 28-17 win-loss record in 2021, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Auger-Aliassime | Khachanov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 18 |
| Pts | 93-82 | 68-50 |
| Total Points | 175 | 118 |
| Winners | 30 | 21 |
| %Winners | 32% | 31% |
Both Auger-Aliassime and Khachanov played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Auger-Aliassime and Khachanov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Auger-Aliassime played 4 games more than Khachanov. Felix scored 30 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Karen made 21 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Auger-Aliassime | Khachanov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 0 |
| 1st in | 44/84 | 28/50 |
| %1st in | 52% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 30/44 | 21/28 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 18/40 | 18/22 |
| %2nd pts | 45% | 82% |
Auger-Aliassime blasted 2 aces . Khachanov didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Auger-Aliassime won 68% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Khachanov won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 82% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Auger-Aliassime | Khachanov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/18 | 3/10 |
| % Converted | 28% | 30% |
| Conceded | 10 | 2 |
| Saved | 7 | 2 |
| % Saved | 70% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Felix broke his opponent 5 times with a 28% conversion rate. Felix conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. Karen broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Karen was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Auger-Aliassime | |||
| R1 Fucsovics |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-60 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 93-82 | 93-82 | |
| Total points | 175 | 175 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 44/84 | 44/84 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/40 | 18/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/18 | 5/18 | |
| Converted % | 28% | 28% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 7/10 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 70% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Khachanov | |||
| R1 Anderson |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-50 | 68-50 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 28/50 | 28/50 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 21/28 | 21/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/22 | 18/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 82% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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