Marcos Giron and Nikoloz Basilashvili will face off in the 1st round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on STADIUM 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marcos Giron who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Marcos Giron is the pick to win this match.
Marcos Giron -> 1.44
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 2.79

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Prediction and head to head Marcos Giron vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili

There is no head to head record between Marcos Giron and Nikoloz Basilashvili since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Marcos Giron

Marcos Giron

8 - 4win/loss

Hard
7-4
I Hard
1-0
Rank
66
High
37
LWWLLLWLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 23-28 12-14 4-7 4-4 3-3 0-0
2024 29-27 6-11 3-8 11-4 9-4 0-0
2023 32-30 17-15 7-6 5-5 3-4 0-0
2022 23-31 11-13 3-9 6-5 3-4 0-0
2021 33-24 12-10 5-5 11-6 5-3 0-0

Ranked no. 48, Marcos will start his run in Indian Wells after he played his last match in Acapulco where he lost 4-6 6-3 6-2 to Shapovalov in the quarter on the 27th of February.

The American has an overall 7-4 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Giron has an overall 382-279 record. He has a positive 253-169 record on hard.

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.

Indian Wells
Giron's Record

Nikoloz Basilashvili

Nikoloz Basilashvili

11 - 6win/loss

Hard
5-4
I Hard
6-2
Rank
110
High
16
LWWWLWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 41-29 18-13 9-10 9-3 5-3 0-0
2024 51-32 11-8 27-15 13-9 0-0 0-0
2023 4-19 1-8 0-5 3-6 0-0 0-0
2022 16-31 3-11 5-9 4-7 4-4 0-0
2021 35-27 18-11 8-8 3-5 6-3 0-0

Ranked no. 152, the Georgean got to the 1st round after beating Christopher Eubanks 6-2 6-4 and Yasutaka Uchiyama 6-4 3-6 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Georgean defeated Uchiyama (6-4 3-6 6-3). During the match Basilashvili scored 92 points vs Uchiyama’s 82. Basilashvili was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Basilashvili made 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Nikoloz Basilashvili was extremely efficient on serve to win 72% (34/47) of his 1st serve and 62% (21/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Georgean broke Uchiyama 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Basilashvili started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

The Georgean has an aggregate 11-5 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Indian Wells

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2021. See his history.

Indian Wells
Basilashvili's Record

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

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