James Duckworth and Antoine Bellier will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Porto Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT CARLSBERG. 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 Antoine Bellier who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Antoine Bellier is the pick to win this match.
Antoine Bellier -> 1.9
James Duckworth -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Antoine Bellier

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

James Duckworth

Ranked no. 74, Duckworth reached the 2^nd round after beating Pedro Araujo 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, James had a good straight sets win against Araujo (6-3 6-4). During the match, Duckworth scored 63 points vs Araujo’s 47. The Australian was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Talking about the service games, Duckworth fired 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, James Duckworth was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Duckworth broke Araujo 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Duckworth has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (280-182). 1-3 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Duckworth has an aggregate 173-104 match record in the last years on hard.

The Australian has an overall 3-10 win-loss record in 2022, 1-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Porto Challenger

Duckworth has never competed in this tournament before.

Antoine Bellier

Ranked no. 217 (career-high), Bellier got to the 2^nd round after beating Jason Jung 6-3 2-6 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Antoine defeated Jung (6-3 2-6 6-4). During the match Bellier scored 79 points vs Jung’s 75. The Swiss was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.

Talking about serving, Bellier struck 16 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Antoine Bellier was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (39/51) of his 1st serve and 55% (17/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Antoine broke Jung twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Antoine’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Manacor and the San Luis Potosi Challenger.

Antoine has a composed 31-18 win-loss record in 2022, 11-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Duckworth	Bellier
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	19	27
Pts	63-47	79-75
Total Points	110	154
Winners	22	39
%Winners	35%	49%

Both Duckworth and Bellier played 1 match. At the moment, Antoine Bellier surrendered 1 set while James Duckworth hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Duckworth has played 1 set(s) less than Bellier (2 vs 3). Therefore, Duckworth played 8 games less than Bellier. Duckworth scored 22 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Antoine blasted 39 winners (49%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Duckworth	Bellier
Aces	7	16
Avg per match	7	16
1st in	31/59	51/82
%1st in	53%	62%
1st pts	22/31	39/51
%1st pts	71%	76%
2nd pts	18/28	17/31
%2nd pts	64%	55%

Duckworth scored 7 aces . Bellier bagged 16 aces . Duckworth won 71% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Bellier won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Duckworth	Bellier
Won	3	2
Converted	3/7	2/3
% Converted	43%	67%
Conceded	3	7
Saved	2	5
% Saved	67%	71%
Times Broken	1	2

The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Australian lost his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Swiss broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Bellier conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

Duckworth
	R1 Araujo	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	63-47	63-47
Total points	110	110
Winners	22	22
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	31/59	31/59
% 1st in	53%	53%
1st pts	22/31	22/31
% 1st pts	71%	71%
2nd pts	18/28	18/28
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/7	3/7
Converted %	43%	43%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Bellier
	R1 Jung	Total
Score	6-3 2-6 6-4
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	27	27
pts	79-75	79-75
Total points	154	154
Winners	39	39
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	16	16
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	51/82	51/82
% 1st in	62%	62%
1st pts	39/51	39/51
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	17/31	17/31
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	5/7	5
Saved %	71%	71%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Porto Challenger

• Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (7-6⁵ 7-5) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Omar JasikaJasika (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Aidan MchughMchugh – Mirza BasicBasic (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Pedro SousaSousa (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Constant LestienneLestienne (7-5 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-7³ 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Emilio NavaNava – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Nuno BorgesBorges (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Daniel RodriguesRodrigues – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Joao DominguesDomingues (5-7 7-6² 6-1) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Pedro AraujoAraujo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (7-6³ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Antoine BellierBellier – Jason JungJung (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Antoine BellierBellier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Hugo GrenierGrenier – Daniel RodriguesRodrigues (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aidan MchughMchugh – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emilio NavaNava – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-0) – H2H and prediction