Tennis forecast: Arthur Fils - Alexey Popyrin

In the quarterfinals of the challenger in France, Alexey Popyrin from Australia will play against Frenchman Arthur Fils.

Arthur FilsThe 18-year-old representative of France continues to confidently perform at the home tournament and make small sensations.

In his match of the 1/8 finals, which was the day before yesterday, Fils was able to win a strong-willed victory over Dimitar Kuzmanov from Bulgaria in three sets – 4:6; 7:6 (7:3); 6:3. In the first set, the tennis players did quite a bit of competent work on their serves, already with the score 2:2 on Kuzmanov made a break for the games and then Dimitar calmly took the game away due to competent work on his serve. In the second set, both tennis players also worked a little competently on their serves, Kuzmanov and Fils exchanged breaks from the score 2:1 on the games, and then Dimitar and Arthur again began to work competently on their serves. As a result, it came to a tie-break, where Fils turned out to be much more stable. In the decisive game, Arthur played out and began to work on his serve without mistakes, with the score 2:2 Fils made his first break in the set, and then with the score 5:3 in his favor, the Frenchman made a second break and thereby closed the match in his favor. The tennis players spent two hours and thirty-five minutes on the court.

Alexey PopyrinThe 23-year-old representative of Australia, in turn, performs much more confidently at the tournament in France and has not given up a single set in two matches.

Popyrin also played his 1/8 finals match the day before yesterday, Alexey had a very confident match and beat Russian tennis player Alibek Kachmazov in two sets - 7:5; 6:1. In the first set, Popyrin played quite hard and could not give himself the advantage in any way. With the score 2:3 in games in favor of Kachmazov, the tennis players exchanged breaks. Then Alibek and Alexey again worked a little competently on their serves, and with a score of 5:5 by games, Popyrin made another break, after that the representative of Australia did not easily, but still served for a set. At the very beginning of the second set, Popyrin made two consecutive breaks and reached the score 4:0 in games. With the score 5:1, Alexey made another break, which allowed him to close the match quite confidently in his favor. The tennis players spent one hour and five minutes on the court.

Alexey Popyrin and Artur Fils played against each other at the end of October last year in qualifying for the ATP tournament in Paris. Then on hard, Popyrin was stronger in two sets – 7:6 (8:6); 6:2.

ForecastIn this match, Alexey Popyrin is considered by the bookmakers to be a fairly clear favorite, which is quite fair.

However, here Fils may well impose a stubborn struggle, and therefore we suggest that you put more than 22.5 games on the total.