Constant Lestienne and Luca Van Assche will play each other in the 1st round of the Pau Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Constant Lestienne who should win in 3 sets.
Constant Lestienne -> 1.48
Luca Van Assche -> 2.57
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Prediction and head to head Constant Lestienne vs. Luca Van Assche
This will be the 2nd time that Constant Lestienne and Luca Van Assche square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lestienne (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Lestienne won 6-3 6-7(2) 6-1 in the quarter in the Cherbourg Challenger back in February 2022.
Constant Lestienne
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-18 | 7-11 | 0-1 | 7-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-31 | 17-15 | 0-3 | 8-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 22-12 | 0-5 | 7-6 | 3-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-27 | 25-6 | 4-7 | 18-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-20 | 10-3 | 4-9 | 10-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211, Constant will start his run in the Pau Challenger after he played his last match in the Forli 4 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Borges in the quarter on the 18th of February.
Constant has an overall 8-4 win-loss record in 2022, 7-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The French player best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Cherbourg Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Lestienne has an overall 349-250 record. He has a positive 152-90 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Pau Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2020. See his history.
Luca Van Assche
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-26 | 7-4 | 15-12 | 9-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-38 | 15-15 | 8-10 | 10-11 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 1-7 | 15-11 | 15-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-31 | 0-1 | 40-20 | 15-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 3-2 | 8-7 | 15-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 400 (career-high), the French player reached the 1st round after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-2 5-7 7-63 and Zhizhen Zhang 1-6 6-4 6-3
.In the qualifications against Zhang, Luca recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-4 6-3).During the match Van scored less points (3) than Zhang. In fact, the world no. 211 won 78 points vs Zhang’s. That means that Van was more focused during the important points. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Van fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Luca Van Assche lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Van put 72% of his first serves in, winning 63% (36/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Zhang 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Luca’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne.
Van has an overall 11-4 win-loss record in 2022, 6-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pau Challenger
Luca has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Pau Challenger
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Antoine HoangHoang (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Ryan PenistonPeniston (3-6 6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur FilsFils – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker (4-6 7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gilles SimonSimon – Emilio NavaNava (6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (6-1 5-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga (6-4 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Kacper ZukZuk (3-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas PouillePouille – Norbert GombosGombos (2-6 7-65 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Harold MayotMayot (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PouillePouille – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Maxime JanvierJanvier (2-2) – H2H and prediction