Stefanos Tsitsipas vs Felix Auger Aliassime Prediction & Betting Tips - ATP Rotterdam

Prediction published on 12/02/2022, 19:26  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 12/02/2022 at 20:26 in Tennis Predictions

Stefanos Tsitsipas is the top seed and has reached his first AMRO World Tennis Tournament final. His previous best was a semi-final last year, now he takes on the third seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime in the final. Tsitsipas made it to five finals last year but all between March and June. Since losing in the French Open final, Tsitsipas hasn't reached a final until this weekend. He made it to the semi-final of the Australian Open and that good form has continued in Rotterdam. Tsitsipas has had wins over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (in three sets), Ilya Ivashka, Alex de Minaur and in the semi-finals, qualifier Jiri Lehecka.  The Greek has won five of his seven previous matches against Auger-Aliassime. They met three times last year with Tsitsipas winning all of them. That makes it five in a row after losing their first two meetings in 2019.

Felix Auger-Aliassime has made a strong start to the year. He was in the Canadian team that won the ATP Cup and then made it to the quarter finals of the Australian Open. He so nearly made it to the last four, leading Daniil Medvedev two sets to love but the Russian made a great comeback. This week has seen a continuation of his impressive form. Wins have come against Egor Gerasimov (though he dropped the first set), Andy Murray, Cameron Norrie and in the semi-final, he beat defending champion Andrey Rublev in three sets. He had to come from a set down to beat the Russian but only lost six games in the next two sets. This is the ninth ATP Tour final of his career, all reached since 2019. However, he's still waiting for his first title and one loss was to Tsitsipas in Marseille two years ago. This promises to be a closely fought match, go for over 23.5 games to be played.