Antoine Escoffier and Marius Copil will square off in the 2^nd round of the Biel Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.81
Marius Copil -> 2

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Prediction and head to head Antoine Escoffier vs. Marius Copil

There is no head to head record between Antoine Escoffier and Marius Copil since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Antoine Escoffier

Ranked no. 248 (career-high), Escoffier reached the 2^nd round after defeating Dennis Novak 6-4 6-2.

In the 1^st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Novak (6-4 6-2). During the match, Escoffier scored 62 points vs Novak’s 45. The French player was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Escoffier bagged 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Antoine Escoffier was very efficient on serve to win 89% (25/28) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Novak 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Escoffier has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 65% of his matches (358-192). 19-6 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Escoffier has a composed108-51 win-loss record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

Antoine’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Loughborough.

Antoine has a compiled 19-7 win-loss record in 2022, 19-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Biel Challenger

Marius Copil

Ranked no. 257, Marius reached the 2^nd round after defeating Adrian Menendez-Maceiras 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Copil had a good straight sets win against Menendez-Maceiras (6-2 6-3). During the match Copil scored 60 points vs Menendez-Maceiras’s 41. Copil was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about serving, Copil blasted 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Marius Copil was very efficient on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Marius broke Menendez-Maceiras 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Copil’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Portimao.

Marius has a compiled 10-5 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Biel Challenger

Copil has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Escoffier	Copil
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	17
Pts	62-45	60-41
Total Points	107	101
Winners	25	22
%Winners	40%	37%

Both Escoffier and Copil played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Escoffier and Copil have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Escoffier played 1 game more than Copil. Antoine scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian struck 22 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Escoffier	Copil
Aces	5	10
Avg per match	5	10
1st in	28/50	28/50
%1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	25/28	22/28
%1st pts	89%	79%
2nd pts	12/22	13/22
%2nd pts	55%	59%

Escoffier made 5 aces . Copil scored 10 aces . Escoffier won 89% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Copil won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Escoffier	Copil
Won	3	4
Converted	3/8	4/5
% Converted	38%	80%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1	0
% Saved	100%	0%
Times Broken	0	1

Antoine broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The French player quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Romanian broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Marius conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Escoffier
	R1 Novak	Total
Score	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	18
pts	62-45	62-45
Total points	107	107
Winners	25	25
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	28/50	28/50
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	25/28	25/28
% 1st pts	89%	89%
2nd pts	12/22	12/22
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/8	3/8
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Copil
	R1 Menendez-Maceiras	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	60-41	60-41
Total points	101	101
Winners	22	22
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	10	10
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	28/50	28/50
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	22/28	22/28
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	13/22	13/22
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/5	4/5
Converted %	80%	80%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Biel Challenger

• Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Zhe LiLi (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Marius CopilCopil – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Pavel KotovKotov – Ryan PenistonPeniston (7-6⁷ 6-4) – See score progression
• Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (7-5 6-0) – See score progression
• Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Georgii KravchenkoKravchenko (7-6⁴ 7-5) – See score progression
• Marek GengelGengel – Ruben BemelmansBemelmans (7-6⁴ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (7-6⁸ 6-4) – See score progression
• Borna GojoGojo – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-7⁰ 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-7⁵ 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Kacper ZukZuk – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Filip HoranskyHoransky – Jerome KymKym (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Dennis NovakNovak (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Aldin SetkicSetkic – Jurij RodionovRodionov (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marius CopilCopil – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip HoranskyHoransky – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jelle SelsSels – Daniel MasurMasur (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Borna GojoGojo – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pavel KotovKotov – Kacper ZukZuk (1-0) – H2H and prediction