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

Marcos Giron

17 - 18win/loss

Hard
9-8
I Hard
1-0
Clay
4-7
Grass
3-3
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. 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.

Cincinnati
Giron's Record

Alexander Blockx

Alexander Blockx

30 - 20win/loss

Hard
13-7
I Hard
9-5
Clay
4-4
Grass
4-4
Rank
116
High
101
LWWWWWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 42-27 15-9 4-4 19-10 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.

Cincinnati
Blockx's Record

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