John Millman and Gilles Simon will play each other in the 2nd round of the Sofia Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gilles Simon who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gilles Simon is the pick to win this match.
Gilles Simon -> 1.76
John Millman -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head John Millman vs. Gilles Simon
This will be the 2nd time that John Millman and Gilles Simon face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Simon (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
John Millman
Ranked no. 38, John reached the 2nd round after defeating Adrian Andreev 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Millman had a good straight sets win against Andreev (6-3 6-1). During the match Millman scored 61 points vs Andreev’s 37. Millman was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Millman scored 4 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. John Millman was very efficent on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Millman broke Andreev 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Millman has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (293-198). 6-3 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Millman has a 27-23 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current season was managing to win the title in Sultan where he overcame Adrian Mannarino in the final 7-5 6-1.
John has a 17-12 win-loss record in 2020, 6-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Sofia
Millman didn’t play in Sofia in 2019.
Gilles Simon
Ranked no. 62, Gilles reached the 2nd round after defeating Luke Saville 6-4 6-3, Illya Marchenko 6-2 6-3 and Andrej Martin 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Gilles had a good straight sets win against Martin (6-2 6-2). During the match Simon scored 64 points vs Martin’s 45. Gilles was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Simon managed to score 2 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Gilles Simon was pretty efficent on serve to win 74% (20/27) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Simon broke Martin 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Simon’s best result of the current season was getting to the semi-finals in Marseille.
Simon has a 15-15 win-loss record in 2020, 10-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Millman | Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 52 |
| Pts | 61-37 | 134-95 |
| Total Points | 98 | 229 |
| Winners | 20 | 48 |
| %Winners | 33% | 36% |
Millman played 1 match while Simon competed in 3 matches. Simon started his run from the qualifications while Millman had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Millman has played 4 set(s) less than Simon (2 vs 6). Therefore, Millman played 36 games less than Simon. John scored 20 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Simon fired 48 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Millman | Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2.3 |
| 1st in | 24/44 | 64/104 |
| %1st in | 55% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 48/64 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 22/40 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 55% |
Millman blasted 4 aces . Simon struck 7 aces (2.3 per match). Millman won 83% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Simon won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Millman | Simon |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 10 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 10/22 |
| % Converted | 67% | 45% |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | NAN% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Millman extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Simon broke his opponents 10 times with a 45% conversion rate. Simon conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Millman | |||
| R1 Andreev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-37 | 61-37 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 24/44 | 24/44 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 20/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Simon | |||||
| Q1 Saville |
Q3 Marchenko |
R1 Martin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | 6-2 6-3 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 17 | 16 | 52 | |
| pts | – | 70-50 | 64-45 | 134-95 | |
| Total points | 0 | 120 | 109 | 229 | |
| Winners | 28 | 20 | 48 | ||
| %Winners | NAN% | 40% | 31% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1st in | / | 37/55 | 27/49 | 64/104 | |
| % 1st in | NAN% | 67% | 55% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | / | 28/37 | 20/27 | 48/64 | |
| % 1st pts | NAN% | 76% | 74% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | / | 7/18 | 15/22 | 22/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | NAN% | 39% | 68% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | ||
| Converted | / | 6/11 | 4/11 | 10/22 | |
| Converted % | NAN% | 55% | 36% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Saved | 0/ | 3/5 | 1/1 | 4 | |
| Saved % | – | 60% | 100% | 160% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
Head 2 Head
LW
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