 Kasparud vs Felix Ojelia Seym. It's the first match for the group stage of the ATB finals for 2022. Both guys have had very good seasons to get into the final. FAA started the year at number 11 in the world and after a late season run ended the year at number six to get to the finals. His win-loss record for the season was 56 wins 25 losses so he was very active on the tour winning four out of the finals that he played, finally breaking that title drought, winning Rotterdam at the start of the year and then going back to back to back winning Florence and to open Basel to really cap off breakout season. His best win of the year was against the world number one Elcaraz in Basel. He also beat Elcaraz another time in the Davis Cup earlier just after the US Open but his worst loss was against the number 205 Van Rythoven in Holland. Now Van Rythoven did have a good season and ended up winning that tournament so maybe it wasn't such a bad loss in hindsight. Kasparud started the season off at number eight in the world and with two grand slam finals had a chance to be world number one but ended up peeking at world number two just after the US Open for settling down to number four in the world to get into these finals. Root season record was 48 wins 20 losses again very active on the tour which included three titles from six finals two of those finals being the US Open and the French Open and the three titles he won all clay court events in Gestard, Buenos Aires and Geneva. Best win of the season was against the number four in the world at the time Zverev in Miami a tournament that he ended up making the final of and his worst loss of the season was against the number 229 in the world Shelton in Cincinnati which was a huge upset. These two have played three times for four with Root leading the head to head 2-1 but their hard court record is split down the middle at 1-1 with Root having won their last match in Canada a couple of months ago easily beating Felix on that day. If FAA is going to win this one he's going to have to be aggressive and use the serve forehand combination that's what won him those three titles in a row before he ran out of gas at the Paris Masters a couple of weeks ago so he's going to have to use the serve and the forehand and with the indoor condition it should favor FAA's game a bit more if Root's going to win this one he's going to need to get everything back and defend like crazy because we know FAA is going to go crazy with the serve in the forehand we're going to see if Root can defend that and come out maybe a little bit aggressive himself move FAA around. It's a very interesting first match because we have seen these guys play a few months ago and it was an easy win on a hard court for Root but FAA didn't look himself there and he's improved so much over the last couple of months so I'm going to go with Felix to win this one in straight sets I think it's going to be close maybe the first set but I think Felix has got too much firepower but let me know down in the comments below who's going to win this first round Robin match.