Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Laurent Lokoli will square off in the 1st round of the Istanbul 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 9. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Geoffrey Blancaneaux who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Geoffrey Blancaneaux is the pick to win this match.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 1.63
Laurent Lokoli -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Geoffrey Blancaneaux vs. Laurent Lokoli
This will be the 2nd time that Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Laurent Lokoli square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lokoli (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Lokoli won 6-2 6-1 in the final in Tunisia F4 (Jerba) back in 2018.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
Ranked no. 306, the French player got to the 1st round after beating Mircea-Alexandru Jecan 7-5 6-2.
Blancaneaux has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 60% of his matches (198-134). 5-4 on hard in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Blancaneaux has an overall64-27 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Geoffrey has an overall 14-20 win-loss record in 2021, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Laurent Lokoli
Ranked no. 483, Lokoli got to the 1st round after beating Yu Hsiou Hsu 6-3 6-2 and Adrian Andreev 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Lokoli had a good straight sets win against Andreev (6-1 6-4). During the match Lokoli scored 56 points vs Andreev’s 36. Lokoli was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Lokoli couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Laurent Lokoli lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Lokoli put 55% of his first serves in, winning 81% (22/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Lokoli broke Andreev 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Laurent started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
The French player has a composed 10-12 win-loss record in 2021, 6-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blancaneaux | Lokoli |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 34 |
| Pts | 66-48 | 131-92 |
| Total Points | 114 | 223 |
| Winners | 32 | 57 |
| %Winners | 48% | 44% |
Blancaneaux played 1 match while Lokoli competed in 2 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Blancaneaux has played 2 set(s) less than Lokoli (2 vs 4). Therefore, Blancaneaux played 14 games less than Lokoli. Blancaneaux scored 32 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Laurent scored 57 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blancaneaux | Lokoli |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3.5 |
| 1st in | 38/51 | 79/129 |
| %1st in | 75% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 32/38 | 57/79 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 5/13 | 27/50 |
| %2nd pts | 38% | 54% |
Blancaneaux struck 1 ace . Lokoli also scored 7 aces (3.5 per match). Blancaneaux won 84% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Lokoli won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blancaneaux | Lokoli |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 8 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 8/15 |
| % Converted | 44% | 53% |
| Conceded | 2 | 14 |
| Saved | 1 | 12 |
| % Saved | 50% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Geoffrey conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Laurent broke his opponents 8 times with a 53% conversion rate. Laurent conceded his serve twice and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Blancaneaux | ||||
| Q1 Jecan |
Q3 Heyman |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | 40 | |
| pts | 66-48 | – | 66-48 | |
| Total points | 114 | 0 | 114 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | ||
| %Winners | 48% | NAN% | 48% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1st in | 38/51 | / | 38/51 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | – | 75% | |
| 1st pts | 32/38 | / | 32/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | – | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/13 | / | 5/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | – | 38% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | ||
| Converted | 4/9 | / | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | – | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | ||
| Saved | 1/2 | 0/ | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | ||
| Lokoli | ||||
| Q1 Hsiou |
Q3 Andreev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | 34 | |
| pts | 75-56 | 56-36 | 131-92 | |
| Total points | 131 | 92 | 223 | |
| Winners | 35 | 22 | 57 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 39% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 52/80 | 27/49 | 79/129 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 55% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 35/52 | 22/27 | 57/79 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 81% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/28 | 10/22 | 27/50 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 45% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 5/7 | 8/15 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 71% | 53% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 4 | 14 | |
| Saved | 10/10 | 2/4 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 50% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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