Jannik Sinner vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime - prediction, form, head-to-head

On a 26-match winning streak connected indoor hard courts, Jannik Sinner faces Felix Auger-Aliassime connected Monday, aiming to commencement the defence of his ATP World Tour Finals with a win.

The favourite to support his crown enters the year-end lawsuit knowing the No. 1 ranking is astatine stake, having lone conscionable reclaimed it past week, but volition bash his champion to borderline retired affable rival Carlos Alcaraz for the honour astatine the extremity of the tourney successful Turin

Match preview

You would conflict to tally retired of superlatives for Sinner, who has not mislaid connected indoor hard courts since the 2023 Davis Cup Finals.

The satellite No. 1 has since accumulated 26 wins, including 5 past twelvemonth en way to winning the rubric without dropping a set. 

Although immoderate of the invincibility from 12 months agone has diminished, the four-time Grand Slam champion has done good to instrumentality adjacent to that level.

Since losing to Alcaraz successful the US Open final, the 24-year-old has won 16 consecutive completed matches, lone falling to Tallon Griekspoor successful Shanghai, wherever helium had to discontinue owed to terrible cramps.

With lone 3 players — Terence Atmane, Alex de Minaur and Alexander Zverev — taking a acceptable disconnected the 2024 Finals champion, helium enters the year-end lawsuit aiming to amended his 34-3 hard tribunal grounds successful 2025.

With a play grounds of 53-6, 3 of which losses came to Alcaraz, Sinner aims to execute his 54th triumph astatine the Canadian's expense.

Auger-Aliassime mentioned aft his caller decision to the Paris Masters champion that the spread betwixt them was closing, and helium plans to show this successful Turin.

Having mislaid meekly successful Cincinnati, FAA challenged the past US Open defending champion for overmuch of their semi-final successful New York earlier losing successful 4 sets, portion a intimately contested last besides took spot successful the French capital.

These beardown performances contempt decision should boost the eight-time ATP titlist’s assurance arsenic helium seeks a 3rd vocation triumph implicit Sinner and to amended his 48-23 play record.

Since the US Open semi-final, lone 2 players person defeated Auger-Aliassime successful completed matches, highlighting the 25-year-old's 14-2 grounds since Flushing Meadows.

Aiming for his 15th win, the erstwhile satellite No. 6 seeks to extremity Sinner's winning streak astatine location and marque a people successful Monday's brushwood successful the Bjorn Borg Group. 

Having had to hold until the past infinitesimal owed to uncertainty implicit Novak Djokovic and Lorenzo Musetti, the former's withdrawal aft beating Musetti successful Athens connected Saturday means the Italian volition articulation Auger-Aliassime successful Turn aft all. 

With each the uncertainty down him, the Canadian prima volition purpose to marque the astir of the year-end lawsuit to amended upon his 2022 debut appearance, erstwhile helium exited successful the circular robin contempt a commendable triumph implicit Rafael Nadal. 

Head To Head

Paris Masters (2025) - Final: Sinner 6-4 7-6(4

US Open (2025) - Semi-final: Sinner 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4

Cincinnati Masters (2025) - Quarter-final: Sinner 6-0 6-2 

Madrid Masters (2024) - Quarter-final: Auger-Aliassime (walkover)

Cincinnati Masters (2022) - Round of 16: Auger-Aliassime 2-6 7-6(1) 6-1

Madrid Masters (2022) - Round of 16: Auger-Aliassime 6-1 6-2

Auger-Aliassime initially defeated Sinner successful their archetypal 2 encounters connected the ATP Tour, but the apical effect has since won 3 consecutive matches to pb their head-to-head 3-2. 

All 3 wins person been connected hard courts successful Cincinnati, Flushing and, astir recently, Paris, though they person not followed the aforesaid signifier each time. 

Since managing lone 2 games successful Cincy, Auger-Aliassime has made this rivalry much competitive, matching Sinner shot-for-shot successful the US Open semi-finals and narrowly losing successful 2 choky sets successful the Masters last successful Paris past week.

We say: Sinner to triumph successful 2 sets

Back astatine Inalpi Arena for the Finals, Sinner, who did not driblet a acceptable connected his mode to winning the rubric past year, volition purpose for a beardown commencement connected his location ground.

Starting this lucifer connected a 26-match winning streak connected indoor hard courts, the Italian No. 1 should unafraid triumph successful 2 sets contempt Auger-Aliassime's undeniable accomplishment connected indoor surfaces and caller adjacent encounters with the section favourite.

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