Michael Geerts and Elliot Benchetrit will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Forli 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on GENCOM. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Geerts who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Michael Geerts is the pick to win this match.
Michael Geerts -> 1.56
Elliot Benchetrit -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Elliot Benchetrit
There is no head to head record between Michael Geerts and Elliot Benchetrit since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Michael Geerts
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-32 | 17-10 | 10-12 | 12-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 336, the Belgian will start his run in the Forli 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Forli 2 Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Vatutin in the qualifications on the 29th of November.
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, Michael has an overall 236-158 record. He has a positive 28-23 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Forli 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Elliot Benchetrit
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-18 | 4-4 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-15 | 17-7 | 11-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-26 | 12-9 | 11-13 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-20 | 5-5 | 8-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-15 | 3-3 | 3-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 344, Elliot reached the 1st round after beating Mattia Bellucci 6-3 6-4 and Matteo Gigante 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Benchetrit had a good straight sets win against Gigante (6-2 6-3). During the match Benchetrit scored 61 points vs Gigante’s 42. Benchetrit was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Benchetrit bagged 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Elliot Benchetrit lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Benchetrit put 65% of his first serves in, winning 82% (28/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Elliot broke Gigante 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
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 tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.
The French player has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Jay ClarkeClarke – Jeremy JahnJahn (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca NardiNardi – Lucas CatarinaCatarina (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Matteo ViolaViola (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Lorenzo AngeliniAngelini (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca PotenzaPotenza – Alexander RitschardRitschard (5-7 6-4 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (7-63 3-6 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Alexandar LazarovLazarov (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Aldin SetkicSetkic (2-6 7-5 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Louis WesselsWessels (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Julian LenzLenz – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Nick ChappellChappell (6-75 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Julian LenzLenz – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Christian HarrisonHarrison (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Aidan MchughMchugh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan FurnessFurness – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Luca PotenzaPotenza – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
