Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alexei Popyrin will face off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on GRAND STAND ARENA. 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 Felix Auger-Aliassime who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Felix Auger-Aliassime is the pick to win this match.
Felix Auger-Aliassime -> 1.28
Alexei Popyrin -> 3.68

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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Alexei Popyrin

This will be the 2nd time that Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alexei Popyrin play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Popyrin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Popyrin won 6-4 7-6(5) in the 1st round in Adelaide back in January 2023.

Felix Auger-Aliassime

Felix Auger-Aliassime

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Rank
5
High
5
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 50-25 24-10 3-6 17-5 6-4 0-0
2024 32-25 6-10 17-8 9-5 0-2 0-0
2023 23-19 13-13 1-3 9-2 0-1 0-0
2022 60-27 14-9 11-7 31-7 4-4 0-0
2021 38-24 19-10 4-6 5-5 10-3 0-0

Ranked no. 10, Auger-Aliassime will start his run in Rome after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-2 3-6 7-6(5) to Lajovic in the 2nd round on the 29th of April.

Felix has an overall 12-8 win-loss record in 2023, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Canadian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Doha.

Talking about his overall career, Auger-Aliassime has an overall 296-167 record. He has a positive 106-56 record on clay.

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See his history.

Rome
Auger-Aliassime's Record

Alexei Popyrin

Alexei Popyrin

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Rank
54
High
19
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 17-24 7-10 9-6 0-5 1-3 0-0
2024 30-22 17-8 4-8 4-3 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

Ranked no. 77, Alexei reached the 2nd round after beating Riccardo Bonadio 6-4 4-6 6-3, Andrea Pellegrino 6-0 7-63 and Christopher O Connell 6-2 7-65.

In the 1st round, Popyrin had a good straight sets win against O Connell (6-2 7-65). During the match Popyrin scored 71 points vs O Connell’s 52. Alexei was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Popyrin made 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Alexei Popyrin was extremely efficient on serve to win 86% (36/42) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke O Connell 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Alexei has a compiled 21-13 win-loss record in 2023, 8-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2020. See his history.

Rome
Popyrin's Record

Tennis Scores in Rome

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