James Duckworth and Quentin Halys will face off in the semifinal of the Istanbul 2 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 11:00 am 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.55
Quentin Halys -> 2.45
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Quentin Halys
This will be the 3rd time that James Duckworth and Quentin Halys play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Duckworth (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Duckworth won 7-6(0) 7-6(5) in the 2nd round in Nice back in 2015.
James Duckworth
Ranked no. 80, James reached the semifinal after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 7-5 6-1, Alexandre Muller 6-3 6-2 and Hugo Grenier 6-3 6-3.
In the quarter, Duckworth had a good straight sets win against Grenier (6-3 6-3). During the match, Duckworth scored 65 points vs Grenier’s 43. The Australian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about the service games, Duckworth scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, James Duckworth was very effective on serve to win 85% (17/20) of his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. James broke Grenier 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 62% of the points he played.
Duckworth has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (293-191). 13-8 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Duckworth has an overall 186-111 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
James has an overall 24-18 win-loss record in 2021, 13-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul 2 Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Quentin Halys
Ranked no. 171, the French player reached the semifinal after defeating Bernard Tomic 6-0 6-1, Illya Marchenko 3-6 6-2 6-2 and Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-5 6-2.
In the quarter, Quentin had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (7-5 6-2). During the match Halys scored 72 points vs Uchiyama’s 56. Halys was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Halys recorded 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Quentin Halys was quite efficient on serve to win 82% (23/28) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The French player broke Uchiyama 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
Halys’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Forli Challenger and the Porto Challenger.
Halys has a compiled 27-19 win-loss record in 2021, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Duckworth | Halys |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 54 | 58 |
| Pts | 185-115 | 210-144 |
| Total Points | 300 | 354 |
| Winners | 59 | 83 |
| %Winners | 32% | 40% |
Both Duckworth and Halys played 3 matches. At the moment, Quentin Halys surrendered 1 set while James Duckworth hasn’t lost a set so far. Duckworth has played 1 set(s) less than Halys (6 vs 7). Therefore, Duckworth played 4 games less than Halys. Duckworth scored 59 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Halys managed to score 83 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Duckworth | Halys |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 24 |
| Avg per match | 3.7 | 8 |
| 1st in | 70/150 | 104/167 |
| %1st in | 47% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 59/70 | 83/104 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 47/80 | 35/63 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 56% |
Duckworth made 11 aces (3.7 per match). Halys fired 24 aces (8 per match). Duckworth won 84% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Halys won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Duckworth | Halys |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 13 | 13 |
| Converted | 13/21 | 13/23 |
| % Converted | 62% | 57% |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 |
| Saved | 4 | 5 |
| % Saved | 50% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 3 |
James broke his opponents 13 times with a 62% conversion rate. James surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Quentin broke his opponents 13 times with a 57% conversion rate. Quentin conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
| Duckworth | |||||
| R1 Giustino |
R2 Muller |
1/4 Grenier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | 6-3 6-2 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 17 | 18 | 54 | |
| pts | 64-39 | 56-33 | 65-43 | 185-115 | |
| Total points | 103 | 89 | 108 | 300 | |
| Winners | 24 | 18 | 17 | 59 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 32% | 26% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 4 | 1 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 28/50 | 22/47 | 20/53 | 70/150 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 47% | 38% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 18/22 | 17/20 | 59/70 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 82% | 85% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 13/25 | 20/33 | 47/80 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 52% | 61% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 4 | 13 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/5 | 4/11 | 13/21 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 100% | 36% | 62% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 2/4 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 50% | 67% | 39% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| Halys | |||||
| R1 Tomic |
R2 Marchenko |
1/4 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | 3-6 6-2 6-2 | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 25 | 20 | 58 | |
| pts | 52-17 | 86-71 | 72-56 | 210-144 | |
| Total points | 69 | 157 | 128 | 354 | |
| Winners | 22 | 38 | 23 | 83 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 44% | 32% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 6 | 1 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 26/36 | 50/75 | 28/56 | 104/167 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 67% | 50% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 38/50 | 23/28 | 83/104 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 76% | 82% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/10 | 12/25 | 16/28 | 35/63 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 48% | 57% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 4/7 | 4/10 | 13/23 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 57% | 40% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 4/6 | 0/1 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 67% | 0% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWLWWLW Tennis Scores in Istanbul 2 Challenger
- Borna GojoGojo – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Aldin SetkicSetkic (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Quentin HalysHalys (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
