Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Tim Van Rijthoven will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Lugano Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 8:00 pm on CENTRALE. 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 Pierre-Hugues Herbert who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pierre-Hugues Herbert is the pick to win this match.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 1.71
Tim Van Rijthoven -> 2.14
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Prediction and head to head Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Tim Van Rijthoven
There is no head to head record between Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Tim Van Rijthoven since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18-11 | 0-2 | 6-5 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-31 | 3-5 | 8-11 | 19-12 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 2-4 | 5-4 | 16-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 10-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-21 | 4-7 | 4-6 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 134, Pierre-Hugues reached the 2nd round after defeating Filip Horansky 7-62 6-4.
In the 1st round, Herbert had a good straight sets win against Horansky (7-62 6-4). During the match, Herbert scored 73 points vs Horansky’s 62. Herbert was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Herbert managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Pierre-Hugues Herbert was extremely effective on serve to win 80% (36/45) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The French player was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Horansky twice.
Herbert has a winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (273-212). 8-6 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Herbert has an overall 115-68 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Pierre-Hugues has an aggregate 8-6 win-loss record in 2022, 8-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Tim Van Rijthoven
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-24 | 3-4 | 2-2 | 25-15 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-22 | 13-7 | 7-6 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 179 (career-high), Tim reached the 2nd round after defeating Gijs Brouwer 7-64 6-74 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Dutch defeated Brouwer (7-64 6-74 7-5). During the match Van Rijthoven scored 126 points vs Brouwer’s 111. The Dutch was quite aggressive to blast 59 winners.
About the serving games, Van Rijthoven recorded 19 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Tim Van Rijthoven was quite effective on serve to win 79% (59/75) of his 1st serve and 66% (23/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Van Rijthoven broke Brouwer twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Van Rijthoven’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Forli 4 Challenger.
Tim has a composed 20-8 win-loss record in 2022, 18-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Herbert | Van Rijthoven |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 38 |
| Pts | 73-62 | 126-111 |
| Total Points | 135 | 237 |
| Winners | 36 | 59 |
| %Winners | 49% | 47% |
Both Herbert and Van Rijthoven played 1 match. At the moment, Tim Van Rijthoven dropped 1 set while Pierre-Hugues Herbert hasn’t conceded a set so far. Herbert has played 1 set(s) less than Van Rijthoven (2 vs 3). Therefore, Herbert played 15 games less than Van Rijthoven. The French player scored 36 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Tim struck 59 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Herbert | Van Rijthoven |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 19 |
| 1st in | 45/71 | 75/110 |
| %1st in | 63% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 59/75 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 23/35 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 66% |
Herbert blasted 7 aces . Van Rijthoven scored 19 aces . Herbert won 80% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Van Rijthoven won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 66% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Herbert | Van Rijthoven |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/4 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Pierre-Hugues broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Pierre-Hugues surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Dutch broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Dutch conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Herbert | |||
| R1 Horansky |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 73-62 | 73-62 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 45/71 | 45/71 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Van Rijthoven | |||
| R1 Brouwer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-74 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 38 | 38 | |
| pts | 126-111 | 126-111 | |
| Total points | 237 | 237 | |
| Winners | 59 | 59 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 19 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 75/110 | 75/110 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 59/75 | 59/75 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/35 | 23/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 66% | 66% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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