Alexander Bublik and Tomas Machac will face off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.
Tomas Machac -> 1.76
Alexander Bublik -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Bublik vs. Tomas Machac
There is no head to head record between Alexander Bublik and Tomas Machac since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Alexander Bublik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-15 | 9-6 | 5-5 | 5-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 3-12 | 7-9 | 9-7 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 5-8 | 2-6 | 17-8 | 9-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 14-12 | 4-6 | 10-8 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-17 | 3-6 | 4-5 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21 (career-high), the Kazakhstani will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match in Doha where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Popyrin in the quarter on the 22nd of February.
Alexander has a compiled 9-4 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title in Montpellier where he beat Borna Coric in the final 5-7 6-2 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Alexander has an overall 335-242 record. He has a positive 127-97 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020, 2021 and 2023. See his history.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-11 | 12-6 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-10 | 16-11 | 18-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-19 | 24-6 | 5-2 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 28-19 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 12-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 |
| 2020 | 27-12 | 0-0 | 12-6 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 63, Machac reached the 1st round after beating Elias Ymer 6-1 7-5 and Roberto Bautista Agut 6-75 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications against Bautista-Agut, Machac recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 6-2 6-1). During the match Machac scored 106 points vs Bautista-Agut’s 83. Tomas was pretty aggressive to blast 48 winners.
About the serving games, Machac fired 14 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Tomas Machac was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (48/59) of his 1st serve and 56% (24/43) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Machac broke Bautista-Agut 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Machac started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Tomas has a composed 9-4 win-loss record in 2024, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Richard GasquetGasquet (4-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Tomas MachacMachac – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-75 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Tomas MachacMachac – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (6-7(5) 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (5-7 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Richard GasquetGasquet (4-6 6-1 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Ugo HumbertHumbert (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander BublikBublik – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Andrey RublevRublev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sumit NagalNagal – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Andy MurrayMurray (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Sebastian KordaKorda (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – (0-0) – H2H and prediction