Borna Coric and Cristian Garin will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on Court 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Borna Coric who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.44
Cristian Garin -> 2.79

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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Cristian Garin

This will be the 4th time that Borna Coric and Cristian Garin square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Coric (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Coric won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in Rome back in 2020.

Borna Coric

Borna Coric

1 - 1win/loss

Hard
1-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
115
High
12
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-13 1-6 15-5 10-2 0-0 0-0
2024 23-27 8-13 3-7 11-6 1-1 0-0
2023 22-19 10-10 9-5 3-1 0-3 0-0
2022 27-17 10-5 10-9 7-3 0-0 0-0
2021 6-3 3-2 0-0 3-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 88, Borna will start his run at the Australian Open after he played his last match in Perth Sydney where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Fritz in the round robin on the 31st of December.

Borna has a composed 1-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Borna has an overall 335-243 record. He has a positive 154-106 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 4th round in 2019. See his history.

Australian Open
Coric's Record

Cristian Garin

Cristian Garin

3 - 1win/loss

Hard
3-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
80
High
17
WWWWWLWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 49-22 6-6 39-13 1-1 3-2 0-0
2024 21-24 3-6 13-14 1-1 4-3 0-0
2023 41-25 22-12 18-12 1-1 0-0 0-0
2022 18-23 4-5 9-11 1-4 4-3 0-0
2021 21-18 2-6 15-9 1-2 3-1 0-0

Ranked no. 151, Christian got to the 1st round after defeating Murkel Dellien 6-3 6-1, Laslo Djere 6-4 1-6 7-5 and Hugo Dellien 6-2 6-3.

In the qualifications, Christian had a good straight sets win against Dellien (6-2 6-3). During the match Garin scored 62 points vs Dellien’s 41. Christian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Garin scored 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Cristian Garin was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 54% (7/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Garin broke Dellien 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Garin 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.

Christian has an aggregate 3-1 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2022. See his history.

Australian Open
Garin's Record

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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