Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs Frances Tiafoe Prediction & Betting Tips - ATP Shanghai Masters

Prediction published on 10/10/2026, 11:15  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 10/10/2026 at 12:14 in ATP Shanghai Masters Predictions

Two seeds meet in the last 32 of the outdoor hard court Singapore Masters. 25th seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina takes on the seventh-seeded Frances Tiafoe. Previous matches between these two players have been long affairs and our prediction here is more than 21.5 games.

In the last 16, the winner will be up against unseeded opposition, either wild card Zhou Yi or Hubert Hurkacz.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina is in good form and recently won the outdoor hard court  Chengdu Open. Since that title win in late September, the Spaniard has lost to Matteo Berrettini in his opening match in Tokyo, and then defeated Jenson Brooksby in his first match here.

More than 21.5 games have been played in three of his last four matches.

Frances Tiafoe leads his opponent 3-1 in previous meetings. There have been more than 21.5 games played in all of them with a tie-break in each of those matches. A side bet on there being a tie-break in this match looks a possibly profitable one.

Tiafoe was a semi-finalist in the US Open, but has not made much impact since then. He lost to Arthur Fils in the second round of the Japan Open.

His first match in this event saw him defeat Yannick Hanfmann.