Borna Coric and Darwin Blanch will face off in the 1st round of the Winston-Salem for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:00 pm on STADIUM. 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 Borna Coric who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.54
Darwin Blanch -> 2.48

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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Darwin Blanch

There is no head to head record between Borna Coric and Darwin Blanch since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Borna Coric

Borna Coric

26 - 12win/loss

Hard
1-5
I Hard
10-2
Clay
15-5
Rank
115
High
12
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-13 1-6 15-5 10-2 0-0 0-0
2024 23-27 8-13 3-7 11-6 1-1 0-0
2023 22-19 10-10 9-5 3-1 0-3 0-0
2022 27-17 10-5 10-9 7-3 0-0 0-0
2021 6-3 3-2 0-0 3-1 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 90, Borna will start his run in Winston-Salem after he played his last match in Cincinnati where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Nava in the 1st round on the 8th of August.

Borna has an overall 26-11 win-loss record in 2025, 1-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Lugano Challenger where he defeated Raphael Collignon in the final 6-3 6-1 and the Thionville Challenger where he beat Arthur Bouquier in the final 6-4 6-4 and the Zadar Challenger where he beat Valentin Royer in the final 3-6 6-2 6-3 and the Aix En Provence Challenger where he defeated Stan Wawrinka in the final 6-7(5) 6-3 7-6(4).

Talking about his overall career, The Croatian has an overall 360-253 record. He has a positive 154-109 record on hard.

Previously in Winston-Salem

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.

Salem Open
Coric's Record

Darwin Blanch

Darwin Blanch

32 - 13win/loss

Hard
30-10
I Hard
0-0
Clay
2-3
Rank
285
High
285
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 40-22 31-14 2-3 7-5 0-0 0-0
2024 24-19 16-10 8-9 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 7-7 0-2 7-5 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 10-8 7-4 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 404, the American reached the 1st round after defeating Tristan Boyer 6-2 6-3 and Valentin Royer 4-6 6-2 7-6(5).

In the qualifications against Royer, Darwin recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-65). During the match Blanch scored 91 points vs Royer’s 90. Darwin was quite aggressive to blast 47 winners.

About the serving games, Blanch recorded 12 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Darwin Blanch was very efficient on serve to win 80% (47/59) of his 1st serve and 53% (19/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Royer twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Blanch started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Blanch’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Villena,M25 Martos and M25 Figueira da Foz.

Blanch has a compiled 31-13 win-loss record in 2025, 29-10 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Winston-Salem

Darwin has never competed in this tournament before.

Salem Open
Blanch's Record

Tennis Scores in Salem Open

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