Felix Auger Aliassime vs Dominic Thiem Prediction & Betting Tips - ATP Australian Open

Prediction published on 13/01/2024, 13:37  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 13/01/2024 at 14:38 in ATP Australian Open Predictions

27th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime is up against unseeded Dominic Thiem in round one of the Australian Open. Waiting in round two for the winner of this match will be either qualifier Hugo Grenier or unseeded Alexandre Muller. Auger-Aliassime has reached at least the fourth round of this tournament in each of the past three years. His best performance is making it to the last eight in 2022. This time last year, the Canadian was a top ten ranked player but had an inconsistent year. His one big success came when winning the Swiss Indoors Championship in October.  Disappointingly though he's been beaten in the first round in his last three Grand Slam events. He's ranked 27th now (his career high is sixth) and his only match on tour this year saw him lose to Daniel Altmaier in Auckland.

Dominic Thiem continues to struggle to get back up the rankings. The former world number three is currently 92nd in the live rankings and last year only won one match in the four Grand Slam events and that came at the US Open. He is a former finalist in this tournament but that was in 2020. Last year saw him given a tough draw and he lost in straight sets to the fifth seed Andrey Rublev. This is only his second competitive match of the new year, the other ended in defeat to Rafael Nadal in Brisbane. There's been one previous meeting between these two players with Thiem winning but that was four years ago. We go for Auger-Aliassime to make it into round two.