Goncalo Oliveira and Antoine Escoffier will play each other in the 2nd round of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Antoine Escoffier who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Antoine Escoffier is the pick to win this match.
Antoine Escoffier -> 1.49
Goncalo Oliveira -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Goncalo Oliveira vs. Antoine Escoffier
There is no head to head record between Goncalo Oliveira and Antoine Escoffier since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Goncalo Oliveira
Ranked no. 288, Oliveira got to the 2nd round after beating Marek Gengel 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-4 6-4). During the match, Oliveira scored 59 points vs Gengel’s 50. Oliveira was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Oliveira scored just 1 ace in the match and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Goncalo Oliveira was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Goncalo broke Gengel twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Oliveira has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 53% of his matches (366-330). 7-5 on hard in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Oliveira has a compiled60-72 win-loss record in the last 8 years on hard.
The Portuguese’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the Little Rock Challenger.
Goncalo has a composed 19-30 win-loss record in 2021, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Oliveira has never competed in this tournament before.
Antoine Escoffier
Ranked no. 314 (career-high), the French player reached the 2nd round after beating Maximilian Neuchrist 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Antoine had a good straight sets win against Neuchrist (6-3 6-4). During the match Escoffier scored 67 points vs Neuchrist’s 49. Escoffier was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Escoffier managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Antoine Escoffier was exceptionally effective on serve to win 80% (28/35) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Escoffier broke Neuchrist twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Escoffier’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Monastir,M25 Gandia,Bigorre,M25+H Rodez and M25 Villers Les Nancy.
Escoffier has an overall 56-25 win-loss record in 2021, 19-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Oliveira | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 19 |
| Pts | 59-50 | 67-49 |
| Total Points | 109 | 116 |
| Winners | 26 | 28 |
| %Winners | 44% | 42% |
Both Oliveira and Escoffier played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Oliveira and Escoffier have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Oliveira played 1 game more than Escoffier. The Portuguese scored 26 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Antoine managed to score 28 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Oliveira | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 35/54 |
| %1st in | 60% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 28/35 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 14/19 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 74% |
Oliveira blasted 1 ace . Escoffier also bagged 5 aces . Oliveira won 74% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Escoffier won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Oliveira | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 67% | 33% |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Oliveira broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Oliveira pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The French player broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Escoffier was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Oliveira | |||
| R1 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 59-50 | 59-50 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 35/58 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Escoffier | |||
| R1 Neuchrist |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 67-49 | 67-49 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 35/54 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 28/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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