John Millman and Gijs Brouwer will square off in the 2nd round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 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 Gijs Brouwer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gijs Brouwer is the pick to win this match.
Gijs Brouwer -> 1.59
John Millman -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head John Millman vs. Gijs Brouwer
There is no head to head record between John Millman and Gijs Brouwer since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
John Millman
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 13-15 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-27 | 6-9 | 7-7 | 8-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 10-6 | 1-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 87, the Australian reached the 2nd round after defeating Felix Gill 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Gill (6-3 6-3). During the match, Millman scored 62 points vs Gill’s 39. Millman was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Millman recorded 7 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults. John Millman was quite effective on serve to win 90% (27/30) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Millman broke Gill 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Millman has a good record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (274-198). 1-1 on grass in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Millman has a composed 21-22 match record in the last years on grass.
Millman’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Delray Beach.
Millman has an overall 10-16 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Gijs Brouwer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-27 | 14-12 | 6-5 | 4-5 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-34 | 5-8 | 3-6 | 12-15 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-27 | 12-5 | 13-5 | 14-12 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-25 | 9-5 | 12-10 | 21-10 | 0-0 | 5-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 13-4 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223 (career-high), the Dutch reached the 2nd round after beating Lukas Rosol 7-62 6-2, Alexei Popyrin 6-4 6-2 and Lucas Pouille 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, Gijs had a good straight sets win against Pouille (7-5 6-4). During the match Brouwer scored 80 points vs Pouille’s 67. Gijs was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Brouwer blasted 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Gijs Brouwer was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 75% (18/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Gijs broke Pouille 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
The Dutch’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Tunis Challenger.
The Dutch has an overall 33-15 win-loss record in 2022, 7-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Millman | Brouwer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 61 |
| Pts | 62-39 | 221-171 |
| Total Points | 101 | 392 |
| Winners | 27 | 92 |
| %Winners | 44% | 42% |
Millman played 1 match while Brouwer competed in 3 matches. Brouwer started his run from the qualifications while Millman had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Millman has played 4 set(s) less than Brouwer (2 vs 6). Therefore, Millman played 43 games less than Brouwer. Millman scored 27 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch scored 92 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Millman | Brouwer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 20 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 6.7 |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 116/170 |
| %1st in | 68% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 92/116 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 37/54 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 69% |
Millman fired 7 aces . Brouwer bagged 20 aces (6.7 per match). Millman won 90% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Brouwer won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Millman | Brouwer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 8 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 8/21 |
| % Converted | 50% | 38% |
| Conceded | 0 | 8 |
| Saved | 0 | 7 |
| % Saved | 0% | 88% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Millman broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Millman was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Brouwer broke his opponents 8 times with a 38% conversion rate. Brouwer conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.
| Millman | |||
| R1 Gill |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 62-39 | 62-39 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 27/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Brouwer | |||||
| Q1 Rosol |
Q3 Popyrin |
R1 Pouille |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-2 | 6-4 6-2 | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 | 22 | 61 | |
| pts | 83-63 | 58-41 | 80-67 | 221-171 | |
| Total points | 146 | 99 | 147 | 392 | |
| Winners | 31 | 34 | 27 | 92 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 59% | 34% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | 6 | 20 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 40/61 | 40/49 | 36/60 | 116/170 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 82% | 60% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 34/40 | 27/36 | 92/116 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 85% | 75% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/21 | 4/9 | 18/24 | 37/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 44% | 75% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 3/4 | 3/10 | 8/21 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 75% | 30% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 0/0 | 5/6 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 83% | 183% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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