Marc-Andrea Huesler and Geoffrey Blancaneaux will fight against each other in the quarter of the Zug Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marc-Andrea Huesler who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marc-Andrea Huesler is the pick to win this match.
Marc-Andrea Huesler -> 1.45
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Marc-Andrea Huesler vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux
There is no head to head record between Marc-Andrea Huesler and Geoffrey Blancaneaux since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Marc-Andrea Huesler
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-18 | 4-3 | 12-7 | 3-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-31 | 7-9 | 2-10 | 5-8 | 4-3 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 45-28 | 9-8 | 18-6 | 11-10 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-33 | 3-6 | 14-15 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 21-7 | 0-0 | 12-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 7-1 |
Ranked no. 96 (career-high), Huesler reached the quarter after defeating Cedrik-Marcel Stebe 2-6 7-64 6-4 and Santiago Fa Rodriguez Taverna 7-5 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Huesler had a good straight sets win against Fa Rodriguez Taverna (7-5 6-1). During the match, Huesler scored 68 points vs Fa Rodriguez Taverna’s 52. Huesler was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Huesler struck 4 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Marc-Andrea Huesler was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (27/38) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marc-Andrea broke Fa Rodriguez Taverna 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Marc-Andrea has dropped 1 set in this event to conquer 51% of the points he played.
Huesler has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (212-166). 18-5 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Huesler has an aggregate75-56 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
Huesler’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Mexico City Challenger and the Aguascalientes Challenger.
Huesler has an aggregate 29-17 win-loss record in 2022, 18-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
The Swiss has never competed in this tournament before.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-18 | 6-5 | 6-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-37 | 7-10 | 14-18 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-38 | 17-10 | 14-15 | 8-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-31 | 8-6 | 17-19 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 23-17 | 11-3 | 5-9 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 165, the French player got to the quarter after defeating Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves 3-6 7-5 6-3 and Andrea Arnaboldi 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Geoffrey had a good straight sets win against Arnaboldi (6-3 6-4). During the match Blancaneaux scored 60 points vs Arnaboldi’s 48. Geoffrey was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Blancaneaux scored 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Geoffrey Blancaneaux was very effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Arnaboldi twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The French player best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo.
Geoffrey has a composed 27-22 win-loss record in 2022, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Huesler | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 50 | 49 |
| Pts | 178-168 | 166-148 |
| Total Points | 346 | 314 |
| Winners | 82 | 68 |
| %Winners | 46% | 41% |
Both Huesler and Blancaneaux played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Marc-Andrea Huesler lost 1 set, while Geoffrey Blancaneaux lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Huesler and Blancaneaux have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Huesler played 1 game more than Blancaneaux. Marc-Andrea scored 82 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Blancaneaux fired 68 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Huesler | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 8 |
| 1st in | 120/204 | 92/171 |
| %1st in | 59% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 82/120 | 68/92 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 42/84 | 44/79 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 56% |
Huesler recorded 12 aces (6 per match). Blancaneaux managed to score 16 aces (8 per match). Huesler won 68% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Blancaneaux won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Huesler | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 6 |
| Converted | 7/11 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 64% | 75% |
| Conceded | 25 | 16 |
| Saved | 21 | 13 |
| % Saved | 84% | 81% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 3 |
The Swiss broke his opponents 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Swiss dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 84% of the break points that he conceded. Geoffrey broke his opponents 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Geoffrey conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 81% of the break points that he conceded.
| Huesler | ||||
| R1 Stebe |
R2 Fa Rodriguez Taverna |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 7-64 6-4 | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 19 | 50 | |
| pts | 110-116 | 68-52 | 178-168 | |
| Total points | 226 | 120 | 346 | |
| Winners | 55 | 27 | 82 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 40% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 8 | 4 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 82/143 | 38/61 | 120/204 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 62% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 55/82 | 27/38 | 82/120 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 71% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/61 | 14/23 | 42/84 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 61% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/7 | 7/11 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 57% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 23 | 2 | 25 | |
| Saved | 19/23 | 2/2 | 21 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 100% | 92% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Blancaneaux | ||||
| R1 Meligeni Rodrigues Alves |
R2 Arnaboldi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 7-5 6-3 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 19 | 49 | |
| pts | 106-100 | 60-48 | 166-148 | |
| Total points | 206 | 108 | 314 | |
| Winners | 40 | 28 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 47% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 9 | 7 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 56/116 | 36/55 | 92/171 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 65% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 40/56 | 28/36 | 68/92 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 78% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 30/60 | 14/19 | 44/79 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 74% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 2/3 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 67% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 1 | 16 | |
| Saved | 12/15 | 1/1 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 100% | 90% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
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