Sebastian Ofner and Laurent Lokoli will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Ofner who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sebastian Ofner is the pick to win this match.
Sebastian Ofner -> 1.42
Laurent Lokoli -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Ofner vs. Laurent Lokoli
This will be the 3rd time that Sebastian Ofner and Laurent Lokoli face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Lokoli (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played each other, Lokoli won 6-3 7-6(5) in the qualifications in at the Australian Open back in January 2023.
Sebastian Ofner
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-25 | 6-8 | 8-13 | 1-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 60-31 | 12-10 | 37-13 | 7-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-18 | 4-4 | 21-12 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-24 | 4-6 | 4-8 | 7-6 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-17 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 81 (career-high), Sebastian will start his run in the Ilkley Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 7-5 6-3 6-0 to Tsitsipas in the 4th round on the 4th of June.
Ofner has an aggregate 38-16 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on grass.
Ofner’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Tenerife 1 Challenger,the Antalya Challenger,the Zadar Challenger and the Prague 1 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Austrian has an overall 275-198 record. He has a positive 18-12 record on grass.
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018 and 2022. See his history.
Laurent Lokoli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-20 | 21-13 | 8-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-26 | 12-10 | 5-6 | 6-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 59-22 | 26-10 | 27-7 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-18 | 14-12 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 186, Lokoli got to the 1st round after beating Leandro Riedi 2-6 6-4 6-3 and Antoine Escoffier 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Escoffier (6-0 6-2). During the match Lokoli scored 57 points vs Escoffier’s 34. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Lokoli scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Laurent Lokoli was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (20/27) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Lokoli broke Escoffier 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Laurent started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Laurent’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Noumea Challenger.
Laurent has an aggregate 19-15 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
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