Lucas Pouille and Liam Broady will play each other in the semifinal of the Cassis Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on CENTRAL CABESTO. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucas Pouille who should win in 3 sets.
Lucas Pouille -> 1.57
Liam Broady -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Lucas Pouille vs. Liam Broady
This will be the 2nd time that Lucas Pouille and Liam Broady fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pouille (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Pouille won 6-4 6-3 in the 2nd round in USA F29 back in 1970.
Lucas Pouille
Ranked no. 133, Lucas reached the semifinal after beating Joao Sousa 6-1 7-63, Elias Ymer 7-65 6-1 and Clement Chidekh 7-61 6-4.
In the quarter, Lucas had a good straight sets win against Chidekh (7-61 6-4). During the match, Pouille scored 90 points vs Chidekh’s 77. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pouille struck 11 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Lucas Pouille was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (41/57) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pouille broke Chidekh twice after converting 22% of his break points (2/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.
Pouille has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (297-203). 6-2 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Pouille has an aggregate 95-69 record in the last years on hard.
Pouille has a compiled 13-18 win-loss record in 2021, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cassis Challenger
Lucas has never competed in this tournament before.
Liam Broady
Ranked no. 147, Broady got to the semifinal after defeating Ernesto Escobedo 6-2 6-4, Mathias Bourgue 7-63 7-60 and Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-67 6-4.
In the quarter, The Brit had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (7-67 6-4). During the match Broady scored 81 points vs Ramanathan’s 69. Broady was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Broady struck 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Liam Broady was extremely efficient on serve to win 88% (35/40) of his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Brit broke Ramanathan once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Liam started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Liam’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Potchefstroom 1 Challenger and the Biella 3 Challenger.
Broady has a composed 33-19 win-loss record in 2021, 19-9 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pouille | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 63 | 67 |
| Pts | 229-192 | 231-188 |
| Total Points | 421 | 419 |
| Winners | 89 | 110 |
| %Winners | 39% | 48% |
Both Pouille and Broady played 3 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pouille and Broady have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Pouille played 4 games less than Broady. Pouille scored 89 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Broady made 110 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pouille | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 24 | 17 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 5.7 |
| 1st in | 120/204 | 131/198 |
| %1st in | 59% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 89/120 | 110/131 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 48/84 | 41/67 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 61% |
Pouille struck 24 aces (8 per match). Broady made 17 aces (5.7 per match). Pouille won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Broady won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pouille | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 4 |
| Converted | 9/22 | 4/19 |
| % Converted | 41% | 21% |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 |
| Saved | 6 | 9 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Lucas broke his opponents 9 times with a 41% conversion rate. Pouille dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Liam broke his opponents 4 times with a 21% conversion rate. Broady was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 9 break points.
| Pouille | |||||
| R1 Sousa | R2 Ymer | 1/4 Chidekh | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-63 | 7-65 6-1 | 7-61 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | 23 | 63 | |
| pts | 69-56 | 70-59 | 90-77 | 229-192 | |
| Total points | 125 | 129 | 167 | 421 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | 41 | 89 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 34% | 46% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 6 | 11 | 24 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |
| 1st in | 30/67 | 33/57 | 57/80 | 120/204 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 58% | 71% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 24/33 | 41/57 | 89/120 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 73% | 72% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/37 | 13/24 | 12/23 | 48/84 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 54% | 52% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 5/9 | 2/9 | 9/22 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 56% | 22% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1/3 | 4/5 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 33% | 80% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Broady | |||||
| R1 Escobedo | R2 Bourgue | 1/4 Ramanathan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 7-63 7-60 | 7-67 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 26 | 23 | 67 | |
| pts | 65-47 | 85-72 | 81-69 | 231-188 | |
| Total points | 112 | 157 | 150 | 419 | |
| Winners | 26 | 49 | 35 | 110 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 58% | 43% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 8 | 5 | 4 | 17 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 33/49 | 58/80 | 40/69 | 131/198 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 73% | 58% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 49/58 | 35/40 | 110/131 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 84% | 88% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/16 | 12/22 | 18/29 | 41/67 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 55% | 62% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 0/2 | 1/6 | 4/19 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 0% | 17% | 21% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 6/6 | 2/2 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Cassis Challenger
- Lucas PouillePouille – Clement ChidekhChidekh (7-61 6-4) – See score progression
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Kacper ZukZuk – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (7-67 6-4) – See score progression
- Ernesto Escobedo/Fernando RomboliEscobedo/Fernando Romboli – Romain Arneodo/Albano OlivettiArneodo/Albano Olivetti (7-67 7-613) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Kacper ZukZuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Lucas PouillePouille (0-1) – H2H and prediction