James Duckworth and Gilles Simon will play each other in the 1st round of the Libema Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gilles Simon who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gilles Simon is the pick to win this match.
Gilles Simon -> 1.063
James Duckworth -> 9.9
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Gilles Simon
This will be the 3rd time that James Duckworth and Gilles Simon square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Duckworth and Simon (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they played each other, Duckworth won 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Brisbane back in 2015.
James Duckworth
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46-34 | 25-20 | 6-4 | 10-4 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-29 | 23-14 | 2-3 | 7-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 43-21 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-27 | 20-18 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 12-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 71, Duckworth will start his run in ‘s-Hertogenbosch after he played his last match in the Surbiton Challenger where he lost 6-7(5) 6-1 6-3 to Herbert in the 1st round on the 1st of June.
The Australian has an aggregate 0-6 win-loss record in 2022, 0-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, James has an overall 374-241 record. He has a positive 33-28 record on grass.
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Gilles Simon
17 - 17win/loss
143
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| 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. 134, Gilles got to the 1st round after beating Goncalo Oliveira 6-3 3-6 6-2 and Julian Lenz 4-6 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications against Lenz, Gilles recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-2). During the match Simon scored 108 points vs Lenz’s 88. Simon was extremely aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Simon bagged 10 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Gilles Simon lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Simon put 66% of his first serves in, winning 77% (47/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (13/32) on the 2nd serve. Simon broke Lenz 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Simon started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The French player has an overall 16-16 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in ‘s Hertogenbosch
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Robin HaaseHaase (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-3 6-78 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Aljaz BedeneBedene (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Tommy PaulPaul (6-74 7-65 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (4-6 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Matthew EbdenEbden (7-64 7-69) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Andreas SeppiSeppi (7-64 7-69) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo GastonGaston – Soon-Woo KwonKwon (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sam QuerreyQuerrey – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Gilles SimonSimon (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Hugo GastonGaston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
