Marcos Giron and Alexei Popyrin will play each other in the qualifications of the National Bank Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marcos Giron who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marcos Giron is the pick to win this match.
Marcos Giron -> 1.72
Alexei Popyrin -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Marcos Giron vs. Alexei Popyrin
There is no head to head record between Marcos Giron and Alexei Popyrin since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Marcos Giron
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-23 | 4-10 | 3-8 | 4-1 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-30 | 17-15 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-31 | 11-13 | 3-9 | 6-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 12-10 | 5-5 | 11-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-15 | 12-8 | 1-2 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 53, Giron got to the qualifications after beating Jason Murray Kubler 7-64 6-3.
In the qualifications, Giron had a good straight sets win against Murray Kubler (7-64 6-3). During the match, Giron scored 79 points vs Murray Kubler’s 66. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Giron fired 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marcos Giron was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (33/38) of his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marcos broke Murray Kubler once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).
Giron has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (300-198). 4-9 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Giron has a compiled 213-124 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The American’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Dallas.
Giron has an overall 13-23 win-loss record in 2022, 4-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Toronto
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-19 | 16-7 | 4-8 | 2-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-16 | 3-4 | 5-5 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 83, the Australian reached the qualifications after defeating Steven Diez 6-3 7-64.
In the qualifications, Alexei had a good straight sets win against Diez (6-3 7-64). During the match Popyrin scored 68 points vs Diez’s 57. Alexei was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Popyrin struck 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Alexei Popyrin was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of his 1st serve and 68% (21/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alexei broke Diez twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Alexei’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Bordeaux Challenger.
Alexei has an aggregate 20-23 win-loss record in 2022, 6-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Toronto
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2019 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Giron | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 |
| Pts | 79-66 | 68-57 |
| Total Points | 145 | 125 |
| Winners | 33 | 29 |
| %Winners | 42% | 43% |
Both Giron and Popyrin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Giron and Popyrin have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (22). Marcos scored 33 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian struck 29 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Giron | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 11 |
| 1st in | 38/73 | 36/67 |
| %1st in | 52% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 33/38 | 29/36 |
| %1st pts | 87% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 20/35 | 21/31 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 68% |
Giron managed to score 3 aces . Popyrin recorded 11 aces . Giron won 87% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Popyrin won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Giron | Popyrin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 2 |
| Converted | 1/6 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 17% | 40% |
| Conceded | 4 | 5 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The American broke his opponent once with a 17% conversion rate. The American pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Popyrin conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Giron | |||
| Q1 Murray Kubler |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 79-66 | 79-66 | |
| Total points | 145 | 145 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 38/73 | 38/73 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 33/38 | 33/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/35 | 20/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/6 | 1/6 | |
| Converted % | 17% | 17% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Popyrin | |||
| Q1 Diez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 68-57 | 68-57 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/67 | 36/67 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 29/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/31 | 21/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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