Alexei Popyrin vs Holger Rune Prediction: Rune already has experience of defeating the Australian

Alexei Popyrin vs Holger Rune: Prediction for the Match on August 2, 2025

As part of the round of 16 of the tournament in Toronto, the 26th racket of the world Alexey Popyrin will fight Holger Rune, now the 9th number of the world ranking. The guys had crossed paths 1 time before in the Tour, the score of the confrontation was 1:0 in favor of Rune, and the bookmakers were paired on Holger's side, they believe that the 9th racket of the world has the best chance of success in the upcoming game. Let's find out if the bookmakers are right in putting up such a line for a meeting.

Alexei Popyrin: form and statistics

For the Australian, the upcoming meeting will be the 4th on the hard court in the summer of 2025. Before the Masters in Toronto, Alexey played a match in Washington, where Popyrin was defeated by Wu Yibin. In Toronto, Alexey has victories over Canadian Arsenault and Russian Medvedev. The score of the match against the Russian 5:7, 6:6, 6:4 In Alexey's favor, the match lasted two hours and 32 minutes. During the game, Popyrin made 7 aces with seven double faults, won 84% of the points on the first serve and 40% on the second.

Holger Rune: form and statistics

The Rune Masters in Toronto was the first hard event after the clay and grass parts of the season. The Dane has played five matches on grass, of which he has lost three and has a 3-match losing streak. At Wimbledon, Roone lost in the first round to Chilean Harry in five sets. In Toronto, Rune defeated Frenchmen Mpeshi-Perricard and Muller, both in two sets. The score against Muller was 6:2, 6:4 in favor of Rune, the match lasted an hour and 5 minutes. During the game, the Dane made 4 aces with one double fault, won 81% of the points on the first serve and 65% on the second.

Alexei Popyrin vs Holger Rune: head to head statistics

Alexei Popyrin and Holger Rune played each other once, in 2023 on the clay of the Rome Masters, and Holger won that meeting in three sets.

Alexei Popyrin vs Holger Rune match prediction 2 August 2025

Popyrin should definitely not be underestimated, but after defeating Medvedev, which cost the Australian a lot of physical and moral effort, we doubt that Alexey will be able to produce another match of the same level. In addition, we note again that Medvedev played not on his level, Daniil clearly has problems with motivation and nerves. Holger, after his failures on grass, looks good on the Toronto hard court, where he achieved two wins in two sets. In addition, do not forget that Rune already has experience of defeating the Australian.

Our main prediction: is Correct Score 0:2 for a coefficient of 2.08 in the bet365 bookmaker.

Our betting tip on the match: is Total Over 22.5 for a coefficient 1.85 in the betway bookmaker.

Our final betting tip on the match: is Handicap 2 (+2.5) for a coefficient of 1.69 in the 1xbet bookmaker.