Sebastian Baez and Facundo Diaz Acosta will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the ASB Classic for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Diaz Acosta who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Diaz Acosta is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Diaz Acosta -> 1.9
Sebastian Baez -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Baez vs. Facundo Diaz Acosta
This will be the 6th time that Sebastian Baez and Facundo Diaz Acosta clash against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Baez (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Baez won 7-6(1) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Rio de janiero back in 2024.
Highlights Sebastian Baez vs Facundo Diaz Acosta – Rio de janiero 22-February-2024
Sebastian Baez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-28 | 5-9 | 26-11 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-27 | 9-7 | 22-13 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-32 | 6-12 | 27-12 | 0-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-16 | 2-1 | 52-12 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 28, Sebastian will start his run in Auckland after he played his last match in 1 where he lost 6-2 6-1 to Sinner in the Rubber 2 on the 21st of November.
This will be the first match of the year on hard.
Talking about his overall career, Baez has an overall 251-149 record. He has a flat 33-33 record on hard.
Previously in Auckland
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Facundo Diaz Acosta
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-22 | 3-8 | 16-10 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-25 | 4-4 | 46-20 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-21 | 0-1 | 31-19 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-30 | 7-4 | 36-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 78, Diaz reached the 2nd round after beating Ajeet Rai 6-4 6-2 and Cameron Norrie 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Norrie (6-2 6-3). During the match Diaz scored 60 points vs Norrie’s 44. The Argentine was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Diaz scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Facundo Diaz Acosta lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Diaz put 74% of his first serves in, winning 70% (28/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (5/14) on the 2nd serve. Facundo broke Norrie 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
The Argentine has a compiled 2-2 win-loss record in 2025, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWL Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (7-66 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Gabriel DialloDiallo (7-65 2-6 7-67) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (1-6 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Luca NardiNardi – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-2 1-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Francisco ComesanaComesana (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-2 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Sumit NagalNagal (6-78 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Christian Harrison/Rajeev RamHarrison/Rajeev Ram – Constantin Frantzen/Hendrik JebensFrantzen/Hendrik Jebens (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Luciano DarderiDarderi (5-7 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Nikola Mektic/Michael VenusMektic/Michael Venus – Santiago Gonzalez/Lucas MiedlerGonzalez/Lucas Miedler (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Isaac BecroftBecroft (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (6-2 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (1-6 7-6(5) 6-3) – See score progression
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy – Francisco ComesanaComesana (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Sebastian BaezBaez (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Mariano NavoneNavone – Nuno BorgesBorges (1-0) – H2H and prediction
