Antoine Escoffier and Bu Yunchaokete will square off in the 2nd round of the Morelos Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on ESTADIO MORELOS. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Antoine Escoffier who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Antoine Escoffier is the pick to win this match.
Antoine Escoffier -> 1.533
Bu Yunchaokete -> 2.375
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Prediction and head to head Antoine Escoffier vs. Bu Yunchaokete
There is no head to head record between Antoine Escoffier and Bu Yunchaokete since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-32 | 32-15 | 0-1 | 11-15 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 21-14 | 1-2 | 17-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-33 | 12-12 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 56-26 | 19-8 | 11-8 | 26-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-6 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 193, the French player got to the 2nd round after beating Beibit Zhukayev 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Escoffier had a good straight sets win against Zhukayev (6-4 6-4). During the match, Escoffier scored 78 points vs Zhukayev’s 63. The French player was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Escoffier managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Antoine Escoffier was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Escoffier broke Zhukayev 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Escoffier has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (401-226). 6-4 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Escoffier has an aggregate 222-118 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Escoffier’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger,the Cherbourg Challenger and the Lugano Challenger.
Escoffier has a composed 19-11 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Morelos Challenger
Escoffier has never competed in this tournament before.
Bu Yunchaokete
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 48-25 | 40-14 | 3-2 | 4-6 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 27-15 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 87-28 | 84-24 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 239 (career-high), the Chinese reached the 2nd round after defeating Aziz Dougaz 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Yunchaokete had a good straight sets win against Dougaz (6-3 6-3). During the match Yunchaokete scored 70 points vs Dougaz’s 46. Bu was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Yunchaokete fired 6 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Bu Yunchaokete was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 77% (20/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bu broke Dougaz 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Bu’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Las Franquesas del Valles Challenger.
Bu has an overall 15-9 win-loss record in 2023, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Escoffier | Yunchaokete |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 |
| Pts | 78-63 | 70-46 |
| Total Points | 141 | 116 |
| Winners | 28 | 21 |
| %Winners | 36% | 30% |
Both Escoffier and Yunchaokete played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Escoffier and Yunchaokete have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Escoffier played 2 games more than Yunchaokete. Antoine scored 28 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Yunchaokete scored 21 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Escoffier | Yunchaokete |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 6 |
| 1st in | 36/71 | 27/53 |
| %1st in | 51% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 21/27 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 19/35 | 20/26 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 77% |
Escoffier scored 9 aces . Yunchaokete scored 6 aces . Escoffier won 78% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Yunchaokete won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 77% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Escoffier | Yunchaokete |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 33% | 43% |
| Conceded | 9 | 2 |
| Saved | 8 | 2 |
| % Saved | 89% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Antoine broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Antoine conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Yunchaokete was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Escoffier | |||
| R1 Zhukayev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 78-63 | 78-63 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 36/71 | 36/71 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/35 | 19/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 8/9 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 89% | 89% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Yunchaokete | |||
| R1 Dougaz |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 70-46 | 70-46 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 27/53 | 27/53 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 21/27 | 21/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/26 | 20/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 77% | 77% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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