Ugo Humbert vs Dominic Stricker Prediction United Cup Tennis Picks 12/28/24

Ugo Humbert had a fantastic 2024 emerging as France’s No. 1 male player, finishing the season as World No. 14 - just one spot below his previous best ranking.

He won two titles (Marseille and Dubai) and a was a runner-up in Tokyo and Paris-Bercy - the scene of his first-ever Masters 1000 final where he lost to Alexander Zverev.

Humbert clocked 41 wins in total and 26 losses. Half of his 41 wins were on hard courts. The 26-year-old last competed at the UTS Tour Grand Final during the off-season and reached the semfinal.

Humbert has never taken part in the United Cup before, so this will be his first taste of the mixed team competition.

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Swiss lefty Dominic Stricker played only 30 matches in 2024. He won 13 and lost 17, hardly the kind of return he would have dreamt of at this time last year when he was planning to embark on a new season.

Stricker’s productivity was largely hampered by a serious back injury that forced him out of action for the first five months of the 2024 season.

His best result of last season was reaching the quarterfinal of the Stockholm Open, where he earned a big win over Matteo Berrettini. But apart from that, nothing really struck out from his year.

Stricker’s last tournament of 2024 was a low-level ITF tournament, in which he lost to a player ranked outside the top 600.

Ugo Humbert vs Dominic Stricker Head-To-Head 

• Humbert defeated Stricker in three sets in their only career meeting at the 2023 Swiss Indoors.

Ugo Humbert vs Dominic Stricker Prediction

It’s a clash of two creative lefthanders, but there is no doubt that Humbert is now levels above Stricker in terms of execution and placement. The Frenchman is coming off the best season of his career and should be a solid pick to get his country on the board in this tie.