Liam Broady and Geoffrey Blancaneaux will square off in the 2nd round of the Potchefstroom 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Liam Broady who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Liam Broady is the pick to win this match.
Liam Broady -> 1.54
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 2.48

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Prediction and head to head Liam Broady vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux

There is no head to head record between Liam Broady and Geoffrey Blancaneaux since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Liam Broady

Ranked no. 191, Liam got to the 2nd round after beating Viktor Galovic 6-3 6-1.

In the 1st round, Liam had a good straight sets win against Galovic (6-3 6-1). During the match Broady scored 65 points vs Galovic’s 37. Broady was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.

Talking about the service games, Broady fired 2 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Liam Broady was very effective on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 85% (11/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Broady broke Galovic 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).

Broady has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (334-238). 7-2 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Broady has a 199-114 match record in the last years on hard.

Broady’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Potchefstroom 1 Challenger.

Broady has a 7-2 win-loss record in 2021, 7-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Potchefstroom 2 Challenger

The Brit didn’t compete in the Potchefstroom 2 Challenger in 2020.

Geoffrey Blancaneaux

Ranked no. 286, the French player reached the 2nd round after beating Vit Kopriva 6-1 6-1.

In the 1st round, Geoffrey had a good straight sets win against Kopriva (6-1 6-1). During the match Blancaneaux scored 57 points vs Kopriva’s 30. Blancaneaux was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Blancaneaux wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Geoffrey Blancaneaux lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Blancaneaux put 70% of his first serves in, winning 74% (26/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (5/15) on the 2nd serve. Geoffrey broke Kopriva 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).

Geoffrey has a 1-2 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Broady Blancaneaux
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 14
Pts 65-37 57-30
Total Points 102 87
Winners 21 26
%Winners 32% 46%

Both Broady and Blancaneaux played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Broady and Blancaneaux have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Broady played 2 games more than Blancaneaux. The Brit scored 21 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Geoffrey recorded 26 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve Broady Blancaneaux
Aces 2 0
Avg per match 2 0
1st in 23/36 35/50
%1st in 64% 70%
1st pts 21/23 26/35
%1st pts 91% 74%
2nd pts 11/13 5/15
%2nd pts 85% 33%

Broady struck 2 aces . Blancaneaux didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Broady won 91% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 85% of the points. On the other side, Blancaneaux won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 33% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Broady Blancaneaux
Won 4 6
Converted 4/15 6/7
% Converted 27% 86%
Conceded 0 7
Saved 0 6
% Saved NAN% 86%
Times Broken 0 1

Liam broke his opponent 4 times with a 27% conversion rate. The Brit pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Blancaneaux broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Blancaneaux conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.

Broady
R1
Galovic		 Total
Score 6-3 6-1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 16 16
pts 65-37 65-37
Total points 102 102
Winners 21 21
%Winners 32% 32%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 23/36 23/36
% 1st in 64% 64%
1st pts 21/23 21/23
% 1st pts 91% 91%
2nd pts 11/13 11/13
% 2nd pts 85% 85%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/15 4/15
Converted % 27% 27%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % – 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Blancaneaux
R1
Kopriva		 Total
Score 6-1 6-1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 14 14
pts 57-30 57-30
Total points 87 87
Winners 26 26
%Winners 46% 46%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 5 5
1st in 35/50 35/50
% 1st in 70% 70%
1st pts 26/35 26/35
% 1st pts 74% 74%
2nd pts 5/15 5/15
% 2nd pts 33% 33%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/7 6/7
Converted % 86% 86%
Conceded 7 7
Saved 6/7 6
Saved % 86% 86%
Times Broken 1 1

Tennis Scores in Potchefstroom 2 Challenger

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