Felix Auger-Aliassime and Sebastian Ofner will square off in the 2nd round of the Rakuten Japan Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COLOSSEUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.34
Sebastian Ofner -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Sebastian Ofner
There is no head to head record between Felix Auger-Aliassime and Sebastian Ofner since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Felix Auger-Aliassime
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 12-5 | 4-3 | 0-1 | 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 |
| 2020 | 23-19 | 8-8 | 1-3 | 14-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, Felix reached the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandar Vukic 7-63 6-72 6-2.
In the 1st round, Auger-Aliassime defeated Vukic (7-63 6-72 6-2). During the match, Auger-Aliassime scored 124 points vs Vukic’s 111. Auger-Aliassime was pretty aggressive to blast 45 winners.
Talking about the service games, Auger-Aliassime made 13 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Felix Auger-Aliassime was exceptionally effective on serve to win 73% (45/62) of his 1st serve and 54% (20/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Auger-Aliassime broke Vukic 5 times after converting 31% of his break points (5/16).
Auger-Aliassime has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (300-176). 12-12 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Auger-Aliassime has a compiled100-72 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Canadian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Doha.
Felix has an overall 16-17 win-loss record in 2023, 12-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Felix has never competed in this tournament before.
Sebastian Ofner
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-20 | 6-7 | 7-10 | 1-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 60-31 | 12-10 | 37-13 | 7-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-18 | 4-4 | 21-12 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-24 | 4-6 | 4-8 | 7-6 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-17 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 47 (career-high), Ofner reached the 2nd round after defeating Christopher O Connell 6-72 7-65 7-5.
In the 1st round against O Connell, Ofner recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 7-65 7-5). During the match Ofner scored 126 points vs O Connell’s 117. The Austrian was quite aggressive to blast 55 winners.
Talking about serving, Ofner struck 17 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sebastian Ofner lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ofner put 58% of his first serves in, winning 82% (55/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (24/49) on the 2nd serve. Ofner broke O Connell 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Salzburg Challenger where he defeated Lukas Neumayer in the final 6-3 6-2.
Ofner has a compiled 57-27 win-loss record in 2023, 12-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Auger-Aliassime | Ofner |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 38 |
| Pts | 124-111 | 126-117 |
| Total Points | 235 | 243 |
| Winners | 45 | 55 |
| %Winners | 36% | 44% |
Both Auger-Aliassime and Ofner played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Felix Auger-Aliassime lost 1 set, while Sebastian Ofner lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Auger-Aliassime and Ofner have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Auger-Aliassime played 4 games less than Ofner. The Canadian scored 45 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Austrian made 55 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Auger-Aliassime | Ofner |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 13 | 17 |
| Avg per match | 13 | 17 |
| 1st in | 62/99 | 67/116 |
| %1st in | 63% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 45/62 | 55/67 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 20/37 | 24/49 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 49% |
Auger-Aliassime recorded 13 aces . Ofner bagged 17 aces . Auger-Aliassime won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Ofner won 82% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Auger-Aliassime | Ofner |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/16 | 3/11 |
| % Converted | 31% | 27% |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 57% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
The Canadian broke his opponent 5 times with a 31% conversion rate. The Canadian dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Sebastian broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. The Austrian conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Auger-Aliassime | |||
| R1 Vukic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-72 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 34 | 34 | |
| pts | 124-111 | 124-111 | |
| Total points | 235 | 235 | |
| Winners | 45 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 62/99 | 62/99 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 45/62 | 45/62 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/37 | 20/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/16 | 5/16 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Ofner | |||
| R1 O |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-72 7-65 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 38 | 38 | |
| pts | 126-117 | 126-117 | |
| Total points | 243 | 243 | |
| Winners | 55 | 55 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 17 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 67/116 | 67/116 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 55/67 | 55/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 24/49 | 24/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWLLLWW Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Casper RuudRuud – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Cristian GarinGarin – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Jack DraperDraper (4-6 7-64 7-61) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Taro DanielDaniel (3-6 6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Taylor FritzFritz – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-72 7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Max PurcellPurcell (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (7-614 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Nathaniel Lammons/Jack WithrowLammons/Jack Withrow – Toshihide Matsui/Kaito UesugiMatsui/Kaito Uesugi (7-62 3-6 10-7) – See score progression
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-63 6-72 6-2) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Taro DanielDaniel (3-6 6-4 7-6(2)) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (7-6(6) 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marcos GironGiron – Casper RuudRuud (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christian GarinGarin – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
