
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Marin Cilic will play each other in the quarter of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felix Auger-Aliassime who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Felix Auger-Aliassime is the pick to win this match.
Felix Auger-Aliassime -> 1.45
Marin Cilic -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Marin Cilic
This will be the 5th time that Felix Auger-Aliassime and Marin Cilic square off. The head to head is 3-1 for Cilic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Auger-Aliassime won 2-6 7-6(7) 6-2 7-6(4) in the 4th round in at the Australian Open back in 2022.
Highlights Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Marin Cilic – Australian Open 24-January-2022
Felix Auger-Aliassime
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 23-15 | 13-6 | 3-6 | 4-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
2024 | 32-25 | 6-10 | 17-8 | 9-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 23-19 | 13-13 | 1-3 | 9-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 60-27 | 14-9 | 11-7 | 31-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
2021 | 38-24 | 19-10 | 4-6 | 5-5 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 21, the Canadian got to the quarter after beating Alexander Bublik 7-6(7) 6-7(4) 6-3 and Nuno Borges 4-6 6-3 7-5.
In the 2nd round against Borges, Felix recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 7-5). During the match, Auger-Aliassime scored 99 points vs Borges’s 87. Felix was extremely aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Talking about the service games, Auger-Aliassime bagged 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Felix Auger-Aliassime lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Auger-Aliassime put 73% of his first serves in, winning 78% (52/67) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Borges 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Felix has dropped 2 set in this event to conquer 53% of the points he played.
Auger-Aliassime has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (342-204). 10-3 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Auger-Aliassime has an overall 113-85 record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title in Adelaide where he overcame Sebastian Korda in the final 6-3 3-6 6-1 and in Montpellier where he overcame Aleksandar Kovacevic in the final 6-2 6-7(7) 7-6(2).
The Canadian has an aggregate 14-4 win-loss record in 2025, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Marin Cilic
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 19-10 | 2-2 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 6-1 | 0-0 |
2024 | 9-11 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 32-21 | 16-10 | 9-5 | 4-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 33-23 | 6-9 | 5-5 | 13-7 | 9-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 187, the Croatian reached the quarter after beating Alex De Minaur 6-2 3-6 6-3 and Alexei Popyrin 5-7 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round against Popyrin, Cilic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 6-4).During the match Cilic scored less points (2) than Popyrin. In fact, the world no. 21 won 87 points vs Popyrin’s. That means that Cilic was more focused during the important points. Cilic was quite aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Talking about serving, Cilic bagged 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marin Cilic lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cilic put 64% of his first serves in, winning 79% (50/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (16/35) on the 2nd serve. Cilic broke Popyrin twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Croatian has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Cilic has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Auger-Aliassime | Cilic |
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Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 6 | 6 |
Tot Games | 66 | 57 |
Pts | 225-200 | 176-164 |
Total Points | 425 | 340 |
Winners | 114 | 87 |
%Winners | 51% | 49% |
Both Auger-Aliassime and Cilic played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Felix Auger-Aliassime lost 2 sets, while Marin Cilic conceded 2 sets. Talking about their workload, Auger-Aliassime and Cilic have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Auger-Aliassime played 9 games more than Cilic. Auger-Aliassime scored 114 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Cilic struck 87 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Auger-Aliassime | Cilic |
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Aces | 17 | 9 |
Avg per match | 8.5 | 4.5 |
1st in | 148/205 | 117/188 |
%1st in | 72% | 62% |
1st pts | 114/148 | 87/117 |
%1st pts | 77% | 74% |
2nd pts | 29/57 | 36/71 |
%2nd pts | 51% | 51% |
Auger-Aliassime recorded 17 aces (8.5 per match). Cilic bagged 9 aces (4.5 per match). Auger-Aliassime won 77% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Cilic won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Auger-Aliassime | Cilic |
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Won | 6 | 6 |
Converted | 6/27 | 6/10 |
% Converted | 22% | 60% |
Conceded | 13 | 11 |
Saved | 10 | 8 |
% Saved | 77% | 73% |
Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
Auger-Aliassime broke his opponents 6 times with a 22% conversion rate. Auger-Aliassime surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded. The Croatian broke his opponents 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Marin conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.
Auger-Aliassime | ||||
R1 Bublik |
R2 Borges |
Total | ||
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Score | 7-67 6-74 6-3 | 4-6 6-3 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 35 | 31 | 66 | |
pts | 126-113 | 99-87 | 225-200 | |
Total points | 239 | 186 | 425 | |
Winners | 62 | 52 | 114 | |
%Winners | 49% | 53% | 51% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 8 | 9 | 17 | |
Double Faults | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
1st in | 81/113 | 67/92 | 148/205 | |
% 1st in | 72% | 73% | 72% | |
1st pts | 62/81 | 52/67 | 114/148 | |
% 1st pts | 77% | 78% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 17/32 | 12/25 | 29/57 | |
% 2nd pts | 53% | 48% | 51% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Converted | 3/17 | 3/10 | 6/27 | |
Converted % | 18% | 30% | 22% | |
Conceded | 7 | 6 | 13 | |
Saved | 6/7 | 4/6 | 10 | |
Saved % | 86% | 67% | 77% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Cilic | ||||
R1 De Minaur |
R2 Popyrin |
Total | ||
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Score | 6-2 3-6 6-3 | 5-7 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 26 | 31 | 57 | |
pts | 89-75 | 87-89 | 176-164 | |
Total points | 164 | 176 | 340 | |
Winners | 37 | 50 | 87 | |
%Winners | 42% | 57% | 49% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
1st in | 54/90 | 63/98 | 117/188 | |
% 1st in | 60% | 64% | 62% | |
1st pts | 37/54 | 50/63 | 87/117 | |
% 1st pts | 69% | 79% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 20/36 | 16/35 | 36/71 | |
% 2nd pts | 56% | 46% | 51% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Converted | 4/4 | 2/6 | 6/10 | |
Converted % | 100% | 33% | 60% | |
Conceded | 7 | 4 | 11 | |
Saved | 5/7 | 3/4 | 8 | |
Saved % | 71% | 75% | 73% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Head 2 Head



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