Wimbledon: Alex de Minaur vs. Adrian Mannarino - prediction, head-to-head, tournament so far

Former Wimbledon quarter-finalist Alex de Minaur faces seasoned Adrian Mannarino successful the 2nd circular connected Thursday, aiming to proceed his beardown grass-court form.

The Australian No. 1 took down Roman Andres Burruchaga successful consecutive sets without breaking a sweat, arsenic did his adjacent opponent, who dropped conscionable 7 games en way to a 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 occurrence implicit countryman Titouan Droguet.

Match preview

De Minaur needed to triumph a adjacent opening-set tiebreak 7-5, but the remainder of the lucifer saw the Aussie driblet conscionable 1 crippled from the 13 that followed.

That occurrence was the 5th seed's sixth triumph connected writer this year, having reached the Libema Open last and Queen's Club quarter-final.

While the Australian subordinate has reached the past 16 successful each of the past 2 years, those results followed archetypal and second-round exits successful 3 of his erstwhile 4 appearances.

Having present seemed to find his feet connected grass, the 5th effect volition purpose to amended his vocation 14-6 grounds astatine the Championships, wherever helium held a 68% triumph complaint up of this year's competition.

Having reached the 3rd circular of each of the past 4 Grand Slams and 10 of the erstwhile 11 starting from the 2023 US Open, De Minaur enters Thursday arsenic the undeniable favourite to get the amended of his seasoned opponent.

Mannarino's crippled tin often beryllium unorthodox, but the 38-year-old left-hander has seldom seemed to occupation his adjacent opponent, owing to their lopsided head-to-head.

Winless successful this matchup since 2022, the Frenchman endured a mixed grass-court mentation heading into his 15th main-draw quality astatine the Championships, wherever helium has reached the 3rd circular erstwhile successful his erstwhile six involvements.

Notably, though, that third-round tally came 12 months ago, erstwhile the left-hander defeated Christopher O'Connell and Valentin Royer aft coming done qualifying earlier losing successful consecutive sets to Andrey Rublev.

Now, helium indispensable extremity a winless six-match streak against top-10 players astatine SW19 — including 3 losses to Roger Federer and 2 to Novak Djokovic — to lucifer past year's result.

Although the precedent against De Minaur does small to animate confidence, the erstwhile satellite No. 17 tin gully encouragement from a commendable showing against Droguet successful the opening round.

Tournament truthful far

Alex de Minaur:

First round: vs. Roman Andres Burruchaga 7-6[5] 6-1 6-0

Adrian Mannarino:

First round: vs. Titouan Droguet 6-2 6-4 6-1

Head To Head

Libema Open (2026) - Semi-final: De Minaur 6-4 6-0

Queen's Club (2023) - Quarter-final: De Minaur 6-4 4-6 6-4

Australian Open (2023) - Round of 64: De Minaur 7-6(3) 4-6 6-4 6-1

Atlanta Open (2022) - Quarter-final: de Minaur 4-6 6-3 6-0

Libema Open (2022) - Round of 16: Mannarino 6-2 6-3

Zhuhai Championships (2019) - Final: De Minaur 7-6(4) 6-4

De Minaur leads Mannarino 5-1 successful their head-to-head grounds up of their seventh gathering connected the ATP Tour.

While Thursday's brushwood volition beryllium their archetypal astatine a Major, some men person faced disconnected 3 times connected grass, with Mannarino's sole triumph coming 4 years agone successful Den Bosch, though the Aussie has since responded with 2 wins astatine Queen's and the Libema Open.

The second brushwood occurred successful June en way to a last successful Den Bosch, wherever De Minaur fell to Kamil Majchrzak.

We say: De Minaur to triumph successful 4 sets

Mannarino tin beryllium backed to airs a fewer problems to 'The Demon' connected Thursday, but the Aussie is apt to find solutions to thing the seasoned throws astatine him.

Having ne'er defeated a top-10 subordinate astatine the Championships crossed six specified matches, Mannarino's losing streak looks acceptable to widen to 7 arsenic De Minaur surges into the 3rd circular astatine SW19 for the 3rd consecutive year.