David Goffin and Taro Daniel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 7:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is David Goffin who should win in 3 sets.
David Goffin -> 1.69
Taro Daniel -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head David Goffin vs. Taro Daniel
There is no head to head record between David Goffin and Taro Daniel since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
David Goffin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-26 | 10-15 | 4-4 | 2-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-28 | 24-11 | 7-7 | 9-7 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-26 | 2-5 | 11-9 | 18-9 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-29 | 7-13 | 14-5 | 9-9 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-15 | 4-8 | 5-5 | 5-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 48, David will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match in Doha where he lost 4-6 6-4 6-1 to Ruusuvuori in the 1st round on the 15th of February.
The Belgian has a composed 3-6 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Belgian has an overall 534-301 record. He has a positive 195-114 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-31 | 10-19 | 1-8 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 110, Daniel got to the 1st round after defeating Elias Ymer 6-1 6-4 and Alex Molcan 6-3 7-63.
In the qualifications, Taro had a good straight sets win against Molcan (6-3 7-63). During the match Daniel scored 63 points vs Molcan’s 59. Taro was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Daniel blasted 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Taro Daniel was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 86% (36/42) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Daniel was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Molcan once.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Daniel started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.
The Japanese has a composed 10-3 win-loss record in 2022, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Yuki BhambriBhambri (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Pavel KotovKotov (7-66 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (7-64 6-76 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andy MurrayMurray – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Andrey RublevRublev (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Malek JaziriJaziri (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Richard BerankisBerankis (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Marin CilicCilic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexander BublikBublik (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (3-0) – H2H and prediction