Marcos Giron and Alejandro Tabilo will square off in the 1st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alejandro Tabilo who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alejandro Tabilo is the pick to win this match.
Alejandro Tabilo -> 1.85
Marcos Giron -> 1.95

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Prediction and head to head Marcos Giron vs. Alejandro Tabilo

This will be the 2nd time that Marcos Giron and Alejandro Tabilo fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Tabilo (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Tabilo won 6-3 7-5 in the qualifications in Madrid back in 2022.

Marcos Giron

Marcos Giron

20 - 23win/loss

Hard
12-13
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. 48, Giron will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 4-6 6-3 7-6(4) to Korda in the 1st round on the 25th of September.

Marcos has an overall 20-23 win-loss record in 2025, 12-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 395-298 record. He has a positive 259-178 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2024. See his history.

Shanghai
Giron's Record

Alejandro Tabilo

Alejandro Tabilo

23 - 18win/loss

Hard
17-11
I Hard
0-0
Clay
6-7
Rank
81
High
19
LWLLLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 27-23 20-13 6-7 1-3 0-0 0-0
2024 38-27 13-8 15-10 3-7 7-2 0-0
2023 52-26 13-5 39-19 0-1 0-1 0-0
2022 33-22 7-6 23-11 0-1 3-4 0-0
2021 38-30 13-9 22-15 1-3 2-3 0-0

Ranked no. 72, the Chilean reached the 1st round after beating Jie Cui 6-3 7-5 and Harold Mayot 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Alejandro had a good straight sets win against Mayot (6-3 6-4). During the match Tabilo scored 68 points vs Mayot’s 56. Alejandro was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about serving, Tabilo made 5 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alejandro Tabilo conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 7 break points. Furthermore, Tabilo put 82% of his first serves in, winning 71% (40/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Alejandro broke Mayot twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Tabilo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was winning the title in Chengdu where he overcame Lorenzo Musetti in the final 6-3 2-6 7-6(5).

Alejandro has an aggregate 23-18 win-loss record in 2025, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2024. See his history.

Shanghai
Tabilo's Record

Tennis Scores in Shanghai

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