Hugo Gaston and Yannick Mertens will play each other in the 1st round of the Rennes Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 9:30 pm on COURT LE LIBERTE. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hugo Gaston who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Hugo Gaston is the pick to win this match.
Hugo Gaston -> 1.086
Yannick Mertens -> 6.45
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Prediction and head to head Hugo Gaston vs. Yannick Mertens
This will be the 2nd time that Hugo Gaston and Yannick Mertens clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gaston (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Gaston won 7-6(0) 6-4 in the semifinal in M25+H Rodez back in 2019.
Hugo Gaston
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-31 | 5-12 | 15-11 | 8-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-32 | 6-5 | 30-18 | 8-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-31 | 4-9 | 4-8 | 16-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-30 | 2-3 | 32-16 | 10-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-15 | 1-3 | 5-5 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85, Gaston will start his run in the Rennes Challenger after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-4 6-4 6-4 to Bublik in the 1st round on the 29th of August.
The French player has an aggregate 13-24 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Hugo has an overall 151-113 record. He has a negative 33-37 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Rennes Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See his history.
Yannick Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 9-16 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-17 | 14-7 | 3-5 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2019 | 39-29 | 17-10 | 0-4 | 22-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 858, Mertens reached the 1st round after beating Ivan Liutarevich 7-5 7-69 and Luke Johnson 4-6 7-62 6-4.
In the qualifications against Johnson, Mertens recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-62 6-4).During the match Mertens scored less points (6) than Johnson. In fact, the world no. 85 won 112 points vs Johnson’s. That means that Mertens was more focused during the important points. Mertens was exceptionally aggressive to blast 61 winners.
About the serving games, Mertens struck 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yannick Mertens lost the serve 3 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 74% of his first serves in, winning 62% (61/99) of the points behind his 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the 2nd serve. Yannick broke Johnson 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Yannick started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
The Belgian has a compiled 9-11 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Rennes Challenger
- Gabriel DebruDebru – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (4-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine BellierBellier – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Clement ChidekhChidekh – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-2 5-7 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Ryan PenistonPeniston (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Gilles SimonSimon (9-2) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MasurMasur – Joris De LooreDe Loore (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Maxime MoraMora (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Karl FribergFriberg – Ugo HumbertHumbert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan FurnessFurness – Filip BergeviBergevi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur ReymondReymond – Maxime MoraMora (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dan AddedAdded – Benoit PairePaire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Yannick MertensMertens (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
