Felix Auger-Aliassime and Marin Cilic will face off in the 2^nd round of the Swiss Indoors Basel for the 6^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felix Auger-Aliassime who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Felix Auger-Aliassime is the pick to win this match.
Felix Auger-Aliassime -> 1.29
Marin Cilic -> 3.58

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Prediction and head to head Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Marin Cilic

This will be the 6^th time that Felix Auger-Aliassime and Marin Cilic play each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Cilic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played each other, Auger-Aliassime won 6-4 3-6 6-2 in the quarter in Dubai back in February 2025.

Highlights Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Marin Cilic – Dubai 27-February-2025

Felix Auger-Aliassime

Ranked no. 12, Auger-Aliassime reached the 2^nd round after defeating Gabriel Diallo 6-2 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Auger-Aliassime had a good straight sets win against Diallo (6-2 7-5). During the match, Auger-Aliassime scored 86 points vs Diallo’s 67. Auger-Aliassime was extremely aggressive to blast 37 winners.

Talking about the service games, Auger-Aliassime managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Felix Auger-Aliassime lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Auger-Aliassime put 78% of his first serves in, winning 74% (37/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. Auger-Aliassime broke Diallo 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).

Auger-Aliassime has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (370-221). 9-1 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Auger-Aliassime has a composed 92-41 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the year was conquering the title in Adelaide where he overcame Sebastian Korda in the final 6-3 3-6 6-1 and in Montpellier where he defeated Aleksandar Kovacevic in the final 6-2 6-7(7) 7-6(2) and in Brussels where he overcame Jiri Lehecka in the final 7-6(2) 6-7(6) 6-2.

Auger-Aliassime has a compiled 42-21 win-loss record in 2025, 9-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Basel

Marin Cilic

Ranked no. 89, Marin got to the 2^nd round after defeating Adam Walton 6-4 6-1 and David Goffin 7-6(9) 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Marin had a good straight sets win against Goffin (7-6⁹ 7-5). During the match Cilic scored 81 points vs Goffin’s 62. Marin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Cilic made 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marin Cilic was quite effective on serve to win 88% (35/40) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cilic broke Goffin twice after converting 18% of his break points (2/11).

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Girona Challenger where he defeated Elmer Moller in the final 6-3 6-4 and the Nottingham 2 Challenger where he overcame Shintaro Mochizuki in the final 6-2 6-3.

Cilic has a compiled 27-18 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Basel

Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Auger-Aliassime	Cilic
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	6
Tot Games	20	62
Pts	86-67	225-163
Total Points	153	388
Winners	37	89
%Winners	43%	40%

Auger-Aliassime played 1 match while Cilic competed in 3 matches. Cilic started his run from the qualifications while Auger-Aliassime had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Auger-Aliassime has played 4 set(s) less than Cilic (2 vs 6). Therefore, Auger-Aliassime played 42 games less than Cilic. The Canadian scored 37 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Cilic managed to score 89 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Auger-Aliassime	Cilic
Aces	8	27
Avg per match	8	9
1st in	50/64	99/173
%1st in	78%	57%
1st pts	37/50	89/99
%1st pts	74%	90%
2nd pts	7/14	47/74
%2nd pts	50%	64%

Auger-Aliassime scored 8 aces . Cilic bagged 27 aces (9 per match). Auger-Aliassime won 74% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Cilic won 90% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Auger-Aliassime	Cilic
Won	4	7
Converted	4/12	7/30
% Converted	33%	23%
Conceded	4	10
Saved	3	10
% Saved	75%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

Felix broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Auger-Aliassime dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Croatian broke his opponents 7 times with a 23% conversion rate. Marin was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 10 break points.

Auger-Aliassime
	R1 Diallo	Total
Score	6-2 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	86-67	86-67
Total points	153	153
Winners	37	37
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	50/64	50/64
% 1st in	78%	78%
1st pts	37/50	37/50
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	7/14	7/14
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/12	4/12
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Cilic
	Q1 Walton	Q3 Goffin	R1 Goffin	Total
Score	6-4 6-1	6-1 7-64	7-69 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	17	20	25	62
pts	63-39	81-62	81-62	225-163
Total points	102	143	143	388
Winners	19	35	35	89
%Winners	30%	43%	43%	40%
SERVE
Aces	11	8	8	27
Double Faults	2	3	3	8
1st in	19/43	40/65	40/65	99/173
% 1st in	44%	62%	62%	57%
1st pts	19/19	35/40	35/40	89/99
% 1st pts	100%	88%	88%	90%
2nd pts	17/24	15/25	15/25	47/74
% 2nd pts	71%	60%	60%	64%
Breaks
Won	3	2	2	7
Converted	3/8	2/11	2/11	7/30
Converted %	38%	18%	18%	23%
Conceded	0	5	5	10
Saved	0/0	5/5	5/5	10
Saved %	–	100%	100%	200%
Times Broken	0	0	0	0

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