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.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felix Auger-Aliassime who should win in 2 sets.
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
| 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.
Alexei Popyrin
| 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.
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Hugo DellienDellien (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-76 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Hugo GrenierGrenier (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Ugo HumbertHumbert (6-4 3-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Guido PellaPella – Maxime CressyCressy (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-0 6-78 6-2) – See score progression
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (6-1 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Francesco PassaroPassaro (4-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Nicolas JarryJarry (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-63 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-4 3-6 7-61) – See score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Jeremy ChardyChardy (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Karen Khachanov/Andrey RublevKhachanov/Andrey Rublev – Juan-Sebastian Cabal/Robert FarahCabal/Robert Farah (4-6 7-5 10-7) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Luca NardiNardi (3-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Yibing WuWu – Richard GasquetGasquet (3-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (4-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Cristian GarinGarin – Pedro CachinCachin (6-4 3-6 7-65) – See score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Kyle EdmundEdmund (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (7-67 6-3) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Andy MurrayMurray (6-4 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur FilsFils – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-1 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (7-5) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Guido PellaPella – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Alexander ZverevZverev (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Daniel EvansEvans (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Laslo DjereDjere (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Tommy PaulPaul (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Borna CoricCoric – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Sebastian KordaKorda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alex MolcanMolcan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yibing WuWu – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Fabian MarozsanMarozsan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Sebastian BaezBaez (0-0) – H2H and prediction