Marcos Giron and Alexander Blockx will face off in the 1st round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marcos Giron who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marcos Giron is the pick to win this match.
Marcos Giron -> 1.533
Alexander Blockx -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Marcos Giron vs. Alexander Blockx
There is no head to head record between Marcos Giron and Alexander Blockx since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Marcos Giron
17 - 18win/loss
64
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. 59, Giron will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Mannarino in the 1st round on the 28th of July.
The American has a composed 17-18 win-loss record in 2025, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Giron has an overall 392-293 record. He has a positive 256-173 record on hard.
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020 and 2022. See his history.
Alexander Blockx
30 - 20win/loss
116
101
LWWWWLWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46-28 | 15-9 | 4-4 | 23-11 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-24 | 7-11 | 7-3 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-15 | 4-3 | 11-7 | 24-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-7 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 121 (career-high), Blockx got to the 1st round after beating Alibek Kachmazov 4-2 ret. and Luca Nardi 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Blockx had a good straight sets win against Nardi (6-4 6-3). During the match Blockx scored 67 points vs Nardi’s 50. Blockx was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Blockx fired 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alexander Blockx was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 73% (16/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Belgian broke Nardi 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he defeated Liam Draxl in the final 7-5 6-1.
Blockx has a compiled 30-20 win-loss record in 2025, 13-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Blockx has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Nuno BorgesBorges (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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