Gilles Simon and Tomas Machac will square off in the qualifications of the Phoenix Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tomas Machac is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Machac -> 1.46
Gilles Simon -> 2.64
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Prediction and head to head Gilles Simon vs. Tomas Machac
There is no head to head record between Gilles Simon and Tomas Machac since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Gilles Simon
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25-29 | 7-6 | 4-10 | 11-10 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-24 | 2-4 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-16 | 4-4 | 1-5 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 28-27 | 8-11 | 5-5 | 7-7 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 35-26 | 8-7 | 10-8 | 13-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 139, the French player reached the qualifications after beating Murphy Cassone 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Simon had a good straight sets win against Cassone (6-3 6-1). During the match, Simon scored 61 points vs Cassone’s 40. The French player was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Simon scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Gilles Simon was exceptionally effective on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Cassone 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Simon has a positive match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (251-224). 3-2 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Simon has a compiled 81-75 record in the last years on hard.
Simon has an overall 9-7 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Gilles has never competed in this tournament before.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-12 | 11-4 | 2-5 | 3-1 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-24 | 22-11 | 9-5 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-10 | 16-11 | 18-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-19 | 24-6 | 5-2 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 28-19 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 12-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 |
Ranked no. 158, Machac got to the qualifications after beating Juncheng Shang 6-3 6-0.
In the qualifications, Machac had a good straight sets win against Shang (6-3 6-0). During the match Machac scored 58 points vs Shang’s 29. The Czech was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Machac managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tomas Machac was very efficient on serve to win 93% (27/29) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Shang 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Tomas’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Traralgon Challenger.
Tomas has a compiled 18-6 win-loss record in 2022, 13-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Simon | Machac |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 15 |
| Pts | 61-40 | 58-29 |
| Total Points | 101 | 87 |
| Winners | 27 | 27 |
| %Winners | 44% | 47% |
Both Simon and Machac played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Simon and Machac have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Simon played 1 game more than Machac. Gilles scored 27 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Machac struck 27 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Simon | Machac |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 11 |
| 1st in | 33/45 | 29/40 |
| %1st in | 73% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/29 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 93% |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 6/11 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 55% |
Simon recorded 1 ace . Machac also fired 11 aces . Simon won 82% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Machac won 93% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Simon | Machac |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 57% | 57% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Simon broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Gilles quite strong on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Czech broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Tomas was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Simon | |||
| Q1 Cassone |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-40 | 61-40 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/45 | 33/45 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Machac | |||
| Q1 Shang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-29 | 58-29 | |
| Total points | 87 | 87 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/40 | 29/40 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 27/29 | 27/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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