Vasek Pospisil and Pierre-Hugues Herbert will square off in the 2nd round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. 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 -> 1.84
Vasek Pospisil -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Vasek Pospisil vs. Pierre-Hugues Herbert
There is no head to head record between Vasek Pospisil and Pierre-Hugues Herbert since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Vasek Pospisil
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-11 | 5-9 | 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. 133, Vasek reached the 2nd round after beating Aidan Mchugh 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Pospisil had a good straight sets win against Mchugh (6-3 6-4). During the match, Pospisil scored 63 points vs Mchugh’s 48. Vasek was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pospisil scored 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Vasek Pospisil was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Vasek broke Mchugh twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Pospisil has a positive match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (271-207). 1-0 on grass in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Pospisil has a compiled 29-28 record in the last years on grass.
The Canadian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Quimper Challenger and the Pau Challenger.
Vasek has an overall 22-7 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Vasek has never competed in this tournament before.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-24 | 3-5 | 8-11 | 13-5 | 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 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 4-3 | 7-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 170, Herbert got to the 2nd round after beating Henri Laaksonen 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Pierre-Hugues had a good straight sets win against Laaksonen (6-4 6-2). During the match Herbert scored 69 points vs Laaksonen’s 55. Herbert was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Herbert managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Pierre-Hugues Herbert lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Herbert put 52% of his first serves in, winning 66% (21/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (19/30) on the 2nd serve. Pierre-Hugues broke Laaksonen 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Pierre-Hugues’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Lugano Challenger.
The French player has an aggregate 17-14 win-loss record in 2022, 5-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pospisil | Herbert |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 63-48 | 69-55 |
| Total Points | 111 | 124 |
| Winners | 27 | 21 |
| %Winners | 43% | 30% |
Both Pospisil and Herbert played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Pospisil and Herbert have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Pospisil played 1 game more than Herbert. Pospisil scored 27 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The French player made 21 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pospisil | Herbert |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
| 1st in | 34/57 | 32/62 |
| %1st in | 60% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 21/32 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 66% |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 19/30 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 63% |
Pospisil bagged 9 aces . Herbert scored 4 aces . Pospisil won 79% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Herbert won 66% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pospisil | Herbert |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 50% | 36% |
| Conceded | 2 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Pospisil broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. The Canadian pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Herbert conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pospisil | |||
| R1 Mchugh |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-48 | 63-48 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 34/57 | 34/57 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 27/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Herbert | |||
| R1 Laaksonen |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 69-55 | 69-55 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 32/62 | 32/62 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 21/32 | 21/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/30 | 19/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLLWLWLLW Tennis Scores in Ilkley Challenger
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-68 6-3) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Lucas PouillePouille (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel MasurMasur – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (6-710 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Borna GojoGojo (7-65 7-66) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Jurij RodionovRodionov (5-7 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Jordan ThompsonThompson (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Daniel CoxCox – Charles BroomBroom (7-61 7-61) – See score progression
- John MillmanMillman – Felix GillGill (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Arthur FeryFery (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-0 0-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Michael MmohMmoh (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel CoxCox – Zizou BergsBergs (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- John MillmanMillman – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Daniel MasurMasur (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Andreas SeppiSeppi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
