Frances Tiafoe and Alex Michelsen will square off in the 2nd round of the Dallas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:00 pm on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Frances Tiafoe who should win in 2 sets.
Frances Tiafoe -> 1.44
Alex Michelsen -> 2.8
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Prediction and head to head Frances Tiafoe vs. Alex Michelsen
There is no head to head record between Frances Tiafoe and Alex Michelsen since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Frances Tiafoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-22 | 20-11 | 5-6 | 2-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-21 | 21-10 | 8-4 | 4-5 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-25 | 19-11 | 8-6 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-27 | 19-13 | 4-7 | 10-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-15 | 7-9 | 6-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 14, Tiafoe will start his run in Dallas after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-4 6-4 7-6(5) to Machac in the 2nd round on the 17th of January.
Tiafoe has a composed 2-2 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 343-235 record. He has a positive 51-46 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Dallas
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2023. See his history.
Alex Michelsen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-28 | 23-12 | 4-9 | 1-1 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 61-27 | 30-13 | 4-3 | 19-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-10 | 14-8 | 0-1 | 9-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 75, the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Tennys Sandgren 6-3 3-6 6-1.
In the 1st
round, The American defeated Sandgren (6-3 3-6 6-1). During the match Michelsen scored 85 points vs Sandgren’s 72. Michelsen was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.Talking about serving, Michelsen recorded 12 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Alex Michelsen was very efficient on serve to win 76% (42/55) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alex broke Sandgren 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
The American has a compiled 7-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dallas
Michelsen has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Dallas
- Ben SheltonShelton – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tommy PaulPaul – Taro DanielDaniel (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marcos GironGiron – Max PurcellPurcell (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Denis KudlaKudla (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction