James Duckworth and Alexandre Muller will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Istanbul 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.44
Alexandre Muller -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Alexandre Muller
There is no head to head record between James Duckworth and Alexandre Muller since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
James Duckworth
Ranked no. 80, Duckworth reached the 2nd round after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Giustino (7-5 6-1). During the match, Duckworth scored 64 points vs Giustino’s 39. Duckworth was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Duckworth struck 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, James Duckworth was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Duckworth broke Giustino 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (291-191). 11-8 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Duckworth has a composed 184-111 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Australian has an aggregate 22-18 win-loss record in 2021, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul 2 Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexandre Muller
Ranked no. 192, Muller reached the 2nd round after defeating Nick Chappell 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Muller had a good straight sets win against Chappell (6-4 6-2). During the match Muller scored 63 points vs Chappell’s 44. Muller was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Muller blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alexandre Muller was quite efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 82% (14/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexandre broke Chappell 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Alexandre’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Biella 5 Challenger.
The French player has a composed 18-24 win-loss record in 2021, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Duckworth | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 64-39 | 63-44 |
| Total Points | 103 | 107 |
| Winners | 24 | 22 |
| %Winners | 38% | 35% |
Both Duckworth and Muller played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Duckworth and Muller have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Duckworth played 1 game more than Muller. The Australian scored 24 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The French player managed to score 22 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Duckworth | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 4 |
| 1st in | 28/50 | 26/43 |
| %1st in | 56% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 22/26 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/17 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 82% |
Duckworth managed to score 6 aces . Muller made 4 aces . Duckworth won 86% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Muller won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 82% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Duckworth | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 80% | 33% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
James broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Duckworth surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Alexandre was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Duckworth | |||
| R1 Giustino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 64-39 | 64-39 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/50 | 28/50 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 24/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Muller | |||
| R1 Chappell |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-44 | 63-44 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/43 | 26/43 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/17 | 14/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 82% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWWWWLW Tennis Scores in Istanbul 2 Challenger
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Aldin SetkicSetkic – Vlad Victor CorneaVictor Cornea (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Bernard TomicTomic (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Matthew EbdenEbden (6-4 1-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Laurent LokoliLokoli (4-6 7-65 6-1) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Koray KirciKirci (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Nick ChappellChappell (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Christopher HeymanHeyman – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (3-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Tatsuma ItoIto (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (7-64 6-1) – See score progression
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (7-5 4-6 6-0) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-1 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-4 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Sarp AgabigunAgabigun (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aldin SetkicSetkic – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Christopher HeymanHeyman (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Borna GojoGojo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
