Felix Auger Aliassime vs Fabio Fognini Prediction & Betting Tips - ATP French Open

Prediction published on 27/05/2023, 14:18  by Nella Wagah in Tennis Predictions

Tenth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime and unseeded Fabio Fognini will on Sunday play in the first round of the French Open. Auger-Aliassime cut short his participation at the Lyon Open to be ready for this match. This will be the second encounter between Auger-Aliassime and Fognini and the second on clay. Auger-Aliassime won the first match in Rio in 2019 and will hope for the same outcome again here. The Canadian is having a rocky season so far. He has won 13 and lost nine of the 22 matches he has played. This inconsistent form has seen him drop from being ranked sixth at the start of the season to 10th. Last season he set a new career record at Roland Garros with a fourth-round finish. He will target to at the very least eclipse this and possibly spark a season turnaround.

Fabio Fognini is also struggling to take charge of his season and comes to this match having lost more matches than he has won. The veteran Italian has lost nine of the 13 matches he has played. Four of his wins however have all come on clay and he should be confident of adding to this tally with this match. He is currently ranked 130th in the world and arrives for his 16th appearance at the French Open after his third-round exit in Rome. Fognini’s best-ever result at Roland Garros came back in 2011 when he made it to the quarterfinals. He has been eliminated from the first round here four times. The winner here will play either lucky loser Facundo Diaz Acosta or the unseeded Jason Kubler in the second round.