Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Gianluca Mager will face off in the qualifications of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on STADIUM 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gianluca Mager who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Gianluca Mager is the pick to win this match.
Gianluca Mager -> 1.68
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Gianluca Mager

This will be the 2nd time that Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Gianluca Mager square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mager (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they played, Mager won 7-6(4) 7-5 in the 3rd round in the Sophia Antipolis Challenger back in 2019.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert

Ranked no. 86, the French player reached the qualifications after defeating Tennys Sandgren 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Sandgren (6-3 6-2). During the match Herbert scored 68 points vs Sandgren’s 47. Herbert was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.

Talking about the service games, Herbert fired 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Pierre-Hugues Herbert lost the serve once. Furthermore, Herbert put 57% of his first serves in, winning 70% (19/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 80% (16/20) on the 2nd serve. Pierre-Hugues broke Sandgren 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).

Herbert has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (310-226). 3-3 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Herbert has a 68-55 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Herbert’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Marseille.

The French player has a 10-9 win-loss record in 2021, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Madrid

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2017. See his history.

Madrid
Herbert's Record

Gianluca Mager

Ranked no. 91, Gianluca reached the qualifications after beating Egor Gerasimov 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Mager had a good straight sets win against Gerasimov (6-4 6-3). During the match Mager scored 72 points vs Gerasimov’s 63. The Italian was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Mager struck 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Gianluca Mager lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Mager put 62% of his first serves in, winning 67% (26/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the 2nd serve. Mager broke Gerasimov 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).

Mager’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Marbella Challenger.

The Italian has a 16-10 win-loss record in 2021, 14-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Madrid
Mager's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

P.Herbert
G.Mager
1h:12
1h:12
Time on court​
1h:24
1h:24
1h:12
1h:12
Last match​
1h:24
1h:24
1
1
Match played
1
1
17
17
Games Played​
19
19
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
68
68
Total points​
72
72
68
68
Avg point​
72
72
19
19
Winners
26
26
19
19
Avg Winners​
26
26
28%
28%
Ratio winners
36%
36%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
3
3
7
7
Avg Aces
3
3
2
2
Double Faults
3
3
2
2
Avg Double Faults
3
3
19/27
19/27
1st won total​
26/39
26/39
70%
70%
1st won %
67%
67%
16/20
16/20
2nd won total​
14/24
14/24
!
80%
80%
2nd won %
58%
58%
-- Break Points --
4/10
4/10
BP won
4/13
4/13
4/10
4/10
Avg BP won
4/13
4/13
40%
40%
Won
31%
31%
1
1
Conceded
3
3
1
1
Avg Conceded
3
3
1
1
Broken
1
1
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
0
0
Saved
2
2
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Herbert Mager
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 19
Pts 68-47 72-63
Total Points 115 135
Winners 19 26
%Winners 28% 36%

Both Herbert and Mager played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Herbert and Mager have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Herbert played 2 games less than Mager. Pierre-Hugues scored 19 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Mager struck 26 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve Herbert Mager
Aces 7 3
Avg per match 7 3
1st in 27/47 39/63
%1st in 57% 62%
1st pts 19/27 26/39
%1st pts 70% 67%
2nd pts 16/20 14/24
%2nd pts 80% 58%

Herbert made 7 aces . Mager made 3 aces . Herbert won 70% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 80% of the points. On the other side, Mager won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Herbert Mager
Won 4 4
Converted 4/10 4/13
% Converted 40% 31%
Conceded 1 3
Saved 0 2
% Saved 0% 67%
Times Broken 1 1

The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Pierre-Hugues conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Mager broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Gianluca conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Herbert
Q1
Sandgren		 Total
Score 6-3 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 68-47 68-47
Total points 115 115
Winners 19 19
%Winners 28% 28%
SERVE
Aces 7 7
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 27/47 27/47
% 1st in 57% 57%
1st pts 19/27 19/27
% 1st pts 70% 70%
2nd pts 16/20 16/20
% 2nd pts 80% 80%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/10 4/10
Converted % 40% 40%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Mager
Q1
Gerasimov		 Total
Score 6-4 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 19 19
pts 72-63 72-63
Total points 135 135
Winners 26 26
%Winners 36% 36%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 39/63 39/63
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 26/39 26/39
% 1st pts 67% 67%
2nd pts 14/24 14/24
% 2nd pts 58% 58%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/13 4/13
Converted % 31% 31%
Conceded 3 3
Saved 2/3 2
Saved % 67% 67%
Times Broken 1 1

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