Vasek Pospisil and Arthur Fils will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Pau Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 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 Vasek Pospisil who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vasek Pospisil is the pick to win this match.
Vasek Pospisil -> 1.22
Arthur Fils -> 4.3
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Prediction and head to head Vasek Pospisil vs. Arthur Fils
There is no head to head record between Vasek Pospisil and Arthur Fils since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Vasek Pospisil
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-8 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-14 | 2-9 | 0-0 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-22 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 35-10 | 1-2 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 8-19 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 1-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 6-3 | 0-1 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 155, Vasek got to the 2nd round after beating Antoine Hoang 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Vasek had a good straight sets win against Hoang (6-3 6-4). During the match, Pospisil scored 60 points vs Hoang’s 42. Pospisil was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Pospisil fired 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Vasek Pospisil lost the serve once. Furthermore, Pospisil put 70% of his first serves in, winning 91% (30/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. Pospisil broke Hoang 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Pospisil has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (263-203). 14-3 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Pospisil has a composed 90-52 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Vasek’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Quimper Challenger.
Pospisil has an overall 14-3 win-loss record in 2022, 14-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pau Challenger
Pospisil has never competed in this tournament before.
Arthur Fils
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 16-13 | 8-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-24 | 5-4 | 13-8 | 21-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-28 | 0-1 | 23-15 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-26 | 3-2 | 29-17 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 606 (career-high), the French player reached the 2nd round after defeating Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-4 6-72 6-1, Diego Hidalgo 6-4 6-3 and Zhizhen Zhang 7-5 6-0.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Zhang (7-5 6-0). During the match Fils scored 70 points vs Zhang’s 47. Arthur was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Fils bagged 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Arthur Fils lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Fils put 74% of his first serves in, winning 76% (34/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Zhang 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Arthur has an overall 3-1 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pospisil | Fils |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 67 |
| Pts | 60-42 | 245-194 |
| Total Points | 102 | 439 |
| Winners | 30 | 110 |
| %Winners | 50% | 45% |
Pospisil played 1 match while Fils competed in 3 matches. Fils started his run from the qualifications while Pospisil had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Arthur Fils surrendered 1 set while Vasek Pospisil hasn’t dropped a set so far. Pospisil has played 5 set(s) less than Fils (2 vs 7). Therefore, Pospisil played 48 games less than Fils. The Canadian scored 30 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, The French player struck 110 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pospisil | Fils |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 22 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 7.3 |
| 1st in | 33/47 | 144/225 |
| %1st in | 70% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 30/33 | 110/144 |
| %1st pts | 91% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 44/81 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 54% |
Pospisil recorded 7 aces . Fils struck 22 aces (7.3 per match). Pospisil won 91% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Fils won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pospisil | Fils |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 11 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 11/23 |
| % Converted | 50% | 48% |
| Conceded | 1 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 9 |
| % Saved | 0% | 82% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Canadian broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Canadian lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Arthur broke his opponents 11 times with a 48% conversion rate. Fils conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pospisil | |||
| R1 Hoang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 60-42 | 60-42 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/47 | 33/47 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 30/33 | 30/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Fils | |||||
| Q1 Sanchez-Izquierdo |
Q3 Hidalgo |
R1 Zhang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-72 6-1 | 6-4 6-3 | 7-5 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 19 | 18 | 67 | |
| pts | 114-97 | 61-50 | 70-47 | 245-194 | |
| Total points | 211 | 111 | 117 | 439 | |
| Winners | 51 | 25 | 34 | 110 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 41% | 49% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 11 | 5 | 6 | 22 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 65/102 | 34/62 | 45/61 | 144/225 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 55% | 74% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 51/65 | 25/34 | 34/45 | 110/144 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 74% | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/37 | 20/28 | 7/16 | 44/81 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 71% | 44% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 2/6 | 5/7 | 11/23 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 33% | 71% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 100% | 67% | 250% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
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