Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Joao Fonseca will play each other in the 2nd round of the Cincinnati Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 6:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina is the pick to win this match.
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina -> 1.7
Joao Fonseca -> 2.15

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Prediction and head to head Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Joao Fonseca

There is no head to head record between Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Joao Fonseca since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

34 - 19win/loss

Hard
19-10
I Hard
1-1
Clay
9-6
Grass
5-2
Rank
14
High
14
LWWLWWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 44-26 22-14 9-6 8-4 5-2 0-0
2024 20-22 13-12 2-5 5-4 0-1 0-0
2023 32-28 18-11 9-8 3-6 2-3 0-0
2022 21-26 7-9 11-8 0-6 3-3 0-0
2021 30-25 4-6 16-7 9-10 1-2 0-0

Ranked no. 18 (career-high), Davidovich Fokina will start his run in Cincinnati after he played his last match in Toronto where he lost 6-7(3) 7-6(2) 3-0 ret. to Rublev in the 4th round on the 3rd of August.

Alejandro has an overall 34-19 win-loss record in 2025, 19-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Alejandro’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Delray Beach, Acapulco and Washington.

Talking about his overall career, The Spaniard has an overall 295-213 record. He has a positive 134-83 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.

Cincinnati
Davidovich Fokina's Record

Joao Fonseca

Joao Fonseca

29 - 13win/loss

Hard
18-4
I Hard
0-1
Clay
8-5
Grass
3-3
Rank
24
High
24
LWWWWWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 39-17 22-6 8-5 6-3 3-3 0-0
2024 37-23 8-3 14-11 13-5 2-4 0-0
2023 11-6 1-1 10-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 5-4 0-0 5-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 52, Joao got to the 2nd round after beating Bu Yunchaokete 4-6 6-2 7-5.

In the 1st round against Yunchaokete, Fonseca recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-5). During the match Fonseca scored 98 points vs Yunchaokete’s 81. The Brazilian was pretty aggressive to blast 45 winners.

About the serving games, Fonseca managed to score 13 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Joao Fonseca was extremely efficient on serve to win 76% (45/59) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Brazilian broke Yunchaokete 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Canberra Challenger where he defeated Ethan Quinn in the final 6-4 6-4 and in Buenos Aires where he overcame Francisco Cerundolo in the final 6-4 7-6(1) and the Phoenix Challenger where he beat Alexander Bublik in the final 7-6(5) 7-6(0).

Joao has a composed 29-13 win-loss record in 2025, 18-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Cincinnati

Joao has never competed in this tournament before.

Cincinnati
Fonseca's Record

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

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