Ugo Blanchet and Ernests Gulbis will play each other in the 2nd round of the Zug Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Ernests Gulbis who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ernests Gulbis is the pick to win this match.
Ernests Gulbis -> 1.9
Ugo Blanchet -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Ugo Blanchet vs. Ernests Gulbis
There is no head to head record between Ugo Blanchet and Ernests Gulbis since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Ugo Blanchet
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-16 | 1-3 | 9-9 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-28 | 15-7 | 23-16 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-24 | 15-4 | 27-13 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-21 | 35-12 | 6-6 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
Ranked no. 349 (career-high), Ugo reached the 2nd round after beating Clement Tabur 6-3 6-75 6-3, Jakub Paul 6-0 6-3 and Thomas Fabbiano 4-6 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round against Fabbiano, Ugo recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-2). During the match, Blanchet scored 94 points vs Fabbiano’s 81. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, Blanchet bagged 12 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Ugo Blanchet was pretty efficient on serve to win 85% (39/46) of his 1st serve and 51% (26/51) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ugo broke Fabbiano 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Blanchet has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 62% of his matches (139-86). 23-9 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Blanchet has a compiled46-29 record in the last 5 years on clay.
The French player best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Manacor,M25 Reus,Bresse and M25 Uriage.
Blanchet has a compiled 32-14 win-loss record in 2022, 23-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
Ugo has never competed in this tournament before.
Ernests Gulbis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-21 | 3-2 | 17-13 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-21 | 2-4 | 6-9 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-13 | 9-4 | 3-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2019 | 8-30 | 3-9 | 1-9 | 4-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 365, the Latvian got to the 2nd round after beating Anton Matusevich 6-4 6-2, Yshai Oliel 0-6 7-5 6-4 and Gianluca Mager 6-74 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round against Mager, Gulbis recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-4 6-2). During the match Gulbis scored 100 points vs Mager’s 89. The Latvian was pretty aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about serving, Gulbis managed to score 16 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Ernests Gulbis was quite effective on serve to win 80% (47/59) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Latvian broke Mager 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Ernests’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Cherbourg Challenger.
Gulbis has a composed 21-16 win-loss record in 2022, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blanchet | Gulbis |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 8 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 73 | 77 |
| Pts | 279-234 | 250-221 |
| Total Points | 513 | 471 |
| Winners | 95 | 105 |
| %Winners | 34% | 42% |
Both Blanchet and Gulbis played 3 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players lost a set in the event. Ugo Blanchet lost 2 sets, while Ernests Gulbis dropped 2 sets. Talking about their workload, Blanchet and Gulbis have played the same amount of sets 8. However, Blanchet played 4 games less than Gulbis. Ugo scored 95 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Gulbis blasted 105 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blanchet | Gulbis |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 26 | 30 |
| Avg per match | 8.7 | 10 |
| 1st in | 121/272 | 130/233 |
| %1st in | 44% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 95/121 | 105/130 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 80/151 | 52/103 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 50% |
Blanchet managed to score 26 aces (8.7 per match). Gulbis bagged 30 aces (10 per match). Blanchet won 79% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Gulbis won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blanchet | Gulbis |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 12 | 12 |
| Converted | 12/28 | 12/26 |
| % Converted | 43% | 46% |
| Conceded | 19 | 14 |
| Saved | 15 | 7 |
| % Saved | 79% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 7 |
The French player broke his opponents 12 times with a 43% conversion rate. Ugo lost his serve 4 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded. Gulbis broke his opponents 12 times with a 46% conversion rate. The Latvian conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Blanchet | |||||
| Q1 Tabur |
Q3 Paul |
R1 Fabbiano |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-75 6-3 | 6-0 6-3 | 4-6 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 15 | 27 | 73 | |
| pts | 117-110 | 68-43 | 94-81 | 279-234 | |
| Total points | 227 | 111 | 175 | 513 | |
| Winners | 36 | 20 | 39 | 95 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 29% | 41% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 12 | 2 | 12 | 26 | |
| Double Faults | 10 | 4 | 7 | 21 | |
| 1st in | 50/121 | 25/54 | 46/97 | 121/272 | |
| % 1st in | 41% | 46% | 47% | 44% | |
| 1st pts | 36/50 | 20/25 | 39/46 | 95/121 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 80% | 85% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 36/71 | 18/29 | 26/51 | 80/151 | |
| % 2nd pts | 51% | 62% | 51% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/12 | 3/6 | 12/28 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 33% | 50% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 3 | 7 | 19 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 3/3 | 6/7 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 100% | 86% | 84% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Gulbis | |||||
| Q1 Matusevich |
Q3 Oliel |
R1 Mager |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | 0-6 7-5 6-4 | 6-74 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 28 | 31 | 77 | |
| pts | 58-44 | 92-88 | 100-89 | 250-221 | |
| Total points | 102 | 180 | 189 | 471 | |
| Winners | 25 | 33 | 47 | 105 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 36% | 47% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 9 | 16 | 30 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 8 | 4 | 19 | |
| 1st in | 28/53 | 43/87 | 59/93 | 130/233 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 49% | 63% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 25/28 | 33/43 | 47/59 | 105/130 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 77% | 80% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 20/44 | 19/34 | 52/103 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 45% | 56% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/14 | 4/7 | 12/26 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 29% | 57% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 | 4 | 14 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2/7 | 3/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 29% | 75% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | |
Head 2 Head
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