Alexei Popyrin and Nicolas Arseneault will face off in the 2nd round of the National Bank Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on MOTOROLA RAZR GRANDSTAND 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 Alexei Popyrin who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.057
Nicolas Arseneault -> 9.3

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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Nicolas Arseneault

There is no head to head record between Alexei Popyrin and Nicolas Arseneault since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Alexei Popyrin

Alexei Popyrin

12 - 17win/loss

Hard
2-7
I Hard
0-1
Clay
9-6
Grass
1-3
Rank
54
High
19
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 17-24 7-10 9-6 0-5 1-3 0-0
2024 30-22 17-8 4-8 4-3 5-3 0-0
2023 36-29 18-14 15-6 1-4 2-5 0-0
2022 24-31 7-16 7-4 3-5 7-6 0-0
2021 32-26 13-11 8-6 10-5 1-4 0-0

Ranked no. 26, the Australian will start his run in Montreal after he played his last match in Washington where he lost 7-5 5-7 6-3 to Wu in the 2nd round on the 23rd of July.

Popyrin has a composed 12-17 win-loss record in 2025, 2-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Alexei has an overall 285-230 record. He has a positive 138-106 record on hard.

Previously in Montreal

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2024. See his history.

Toronto
Popyrin's Record

Nicolas Arseneault

Nicolas Arseneault

32 - 16win/loss

Hard
24-10
I Hard
6-3
Clay
2-3
Rank
506
High
491
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 35-22 24-11 2-3 9-8 0-0 0-0
2024 6-7 2-3 0-0 4-4 0-0 0-0
2023 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0
2022 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 638, Arseneault got to the 2nd round after beating Valentin Royer 6-3 7-6(4).

In the 1st round, Nicolas had a good straight sets win against Royer (6-3 7-64). During the match Arseneault scored 80 points vs Royer’s 71. The Canadian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 44 winners.

About the serving games, Arseneault fired 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Nicolas Arseneault lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Arseneault put 68% of his first serves in, winning 75% (44/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 25% (7/28) on the 2nd serve. Nicolas broke Royer 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Arseneault’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo.

Arseneault has a compiled 32-16 win-loss record in 2025, 24-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Montreal

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.

Toronto
Arseneault's Record

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