ATP Cincinnati prediction: Borna Coric vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime pick

4 years in the past, Borna Coric was thought of to be one of many up-and-coming skills in tennis. Though he had probably not damaged by means of at a Grand Slam, Coric cracked the top-15, had an ATP title to his identify and had wins over Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal already underneath his belt. 

Sadly issues started to crumble for Coric in direction of the tip of 2019 as he injured his again. After the pandemic, the Croatian returned to play for a couple of months after which injured his shoulder, which led to him taking a year-long hiatus from March 2021 to March 2022. 

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As you’d anticipate Coric’s first few months again after the hiatus have been bumpy, however the 25-year-old appeared to search out one thing over the summer time, profitable a Challenger occasion in Parma and solely dropping one set alongside the way in which. Coric adopted that up with an unsightly loss to the World No. 311, however then made a run to the quarterfinals in Hamburg and now finds himself within the quarterfinals of a Masters 1000 occasion after defeating Lorenzo Musetti, Rafael Nadal, and Roberto Bautista-Agut. 

Coric is a +188 underdog towards Felix Auger-Aliassime on Friday evening (approx. 7 p.m. ET).

Borna Coric.
Borna Coric serves.
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Auger-Aliassime put collectively a powerful win over Jannik Sinner on Thursday evening, getting back from two match factors to defeat the Italian in three units. FAA confirmed each little bit of what makes him an outstanding expertise and a irritating participant to wager on within the match, as he was miles off it within the first set, however gathered himself and put collectively a dominant third set to get the victory.

With a dominant first serve and loads of energy from the baseline, Auger-Aliassime has the toolkit to make any participant on tour look bizarre if he’s on his recreation. However far too usually in his profession — he's solely 22, so there’s loads of time for him to get higher/extra constant — to this point he’ll lose the plot and make some head-scratching errors. Coric’s first serve isn’t in the identical stratosphere as Auger-Aliassime’s, nevertheless it has been clicking to this point in Cincinnati, as he was solely damaged as soon as in his previous two matches. 

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Auger-Aliassime has among the best serves on tour, so that you’d anticipate him to have the ability to rack up low cost factors and fast video games all through the match and with Coric doing loads of harm on his serve, we may see a tie-breaker or two on this quarterfinal match on Friday evening. 

The worth on Coric isn’t excessive sufficient to be attention-grabbing, however getting plus-money on this match to go over 23.5 video games is value a play.

Borna Coric vs. Felix Auger-Aliassime choose

Over 23.5 video games (+100 — FanDuel)

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