Tallon Griekspoor and Alex Michelsen will square off in the 1st round of the Western & Southern Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on HOLCIM STADIUM 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Michelsen who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.86
Tallon Griekspoor -> 1.95
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Prediction and head to head Tallon Griekspoor vs. Alex Michelsen
This will be the 2nd time that Tallon Griekspoor and Alex Michelsen play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Griekspoor (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Griekspoor won 7-6(5) 6-7(7) 6-4 in the 2nd round in Miami back in March 2024.
Tallon Griekspoor
22 - 20win/loss
40
21
LLWLLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-29 | 10-11 | 8-8 | 10-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-24 | 14-10 | 3-5 | 12-7 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-27 | 5-6 | 12-6 | 4-11 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 59-17 | 11-3 | 36-10 | 9-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-9 | 3-1 | 12-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 40, Tallon will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Montreal where he lost 7-6(7) 5-7 6-4 to Sonego in the 1st round on the 6th of August.
Griekspoor has a compiled 22-19 win-loss record in 2024, 5-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tallon’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Rotterdam and Hertogenbosch.
Talking about his overall career, Griekspoor has an overall 361-212 record. He has a positive 122-64 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Alex Michelsen
28 - 25win/loss
42
41
LWWWLWLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-33 | 26-14 | 4-9 | 5-4 | 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. 55 (career-high), Michelsen got to the 1st round after defeating Zizou Bergs 6-3 4-6 6-4 and Mackenzie Mcdonald 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Mcdonald (6-3 6-2). During the match Michelsen scored 60 points vs Mcdonald’s 44. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Michelsen managed to score 4 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alex Michelsen conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 75% of his first serves in, win 80% (33/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. Alex broke Mcdonald 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Michelsen started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Newport.
Alex has an overall 27-25 win-loss record in 2024, 15-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Alex has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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