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Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Yannick Hanfmann: ATP Gstaad – round of 16
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Yannick Hanfmann will face each other for the first time in the round of 16 at ATP Gstaad.
Felix Auger-Aliassime Profile
Felix Auger-Aliassime is 18th in the ATP rankings, while his career high was No. 6 in the world. The Canadian is 22-15 for the season and 4-5 on clay.
Auger-Aliassime is coming off a 4-6, 5-7, 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 loss to Thanasi Kokkinakis in the first round at Wimbledon.
His best result of the season was reaching the final at the Madrid Masters, where he lost to Andrey Rublev 4-6, 7-5, 7-5. He also made it to the semis in Montpellier, where he lost to Alexander Bublik.
This is his second appearance for Auger-Aliassime in Gstaad after 2018, when he lost in the round of 16 to Viktor Galovic.
Yannick Hanfmann Profile
Yannick Hanfmann is 111th in the ATP rankings, and his career high is No. 45 in the world. The German is 17–23 for the season and 11–13 on clay.
Hanfmann is coming off a 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 win over Nicolas Moreno De Alboran in the first round of the tournament.
Hanfmann’s best results of the season were the quarterfinal in Cordoba, where he lost to Luciano Darderi, and the third round in Miami, where he lost to Grigor Dimitrov.
Hanfmann made it to the final in Gstaad in 2017, and last year he reached the quarterfinals.
Head-to-Head
This will be the first match between Felix Auger-Aliassime and Yannick Hanfmann.
Prediction and Conclusion
Felix Auger-Aliassime is trying to get back among the top 10 players in the world, and in order to get closer to his goal, he needs to win his first title of the year. He did not have a good grass season, so going back to clay was something the Canadian looked forward to. He had a pretty solid performance in his last couple of appearances on clay, reaching the round of 16 at the French Open and the final in Madrid, so he has a reason to be optimistic today. Yannick Hanfmann is someone who tried to play serve and volley very often on clay, and that is not the way to beat Auger-Aliassime. The Canadian will be pretty dominant in this match and take care of business in straight sets.
