Radu Albot and Antoine Escoffier will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Chicago Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 23. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Radu Albot who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Radu Albot is the pick to win this match.
Radu Albot -> 1.40
Antoine Escoffier -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Radu Albot vs. Antoine Escoffier
This will be the 2nd time that Radu Albot and Antoine Escoffier square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Escoffier (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Escoffier won 7-6(5) 7-6(2) in the 2nd round in the Pau Challenger back in February 2022.
Radu Albot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-19 | 3-3 | 17-11 | 4-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-34 | 10-13 | 13-8 | 12-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-30 | 25-14 | 4-6 | 3-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-27 | 4-9 | 2-8 | 13-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-18 | 0-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 116, the Moldovan reached the 2nd round after beating Enzo Couacaud 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Radu had a good straight sets win against Couacaud (6-2 6-3). During the match, Albot scored 72 points vs Couacaud’s 56. The Moldovan was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Albot fired 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Radu Albot lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Albot put 65% of his first serves in, winning 72% (34/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. Albot broke Couacaud 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Albot has a positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (358-284). 12-8 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Albot has a composed 152-110 match record in the last years on hard.
Radu has an overall 27-23 win-loss record in 2022, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Albot has never competed in this tournament before.
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-20 | 14-9 | 0-1 | 7-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 21-14 | 1-2 | 17-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-33 | 12-12 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 56-26 | 19-8 | 11-8 | 26-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-6 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 189, the French player reached the 2nd round after defeating Kaichi Uchida 7-65 6-3.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Uchida (7-65 6-3). During the match Escoffier scored 76 points vs Uchida’s 63. Escoffier was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Escoffier managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Antoine Escoffier was very efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 61% (27/44) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Escoffier broke Uchida 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Antoine’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Loughborough and M25 Nottingham.
Antoine has a compiled 35-20 win-loss record in 2022, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Albot | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 |
| Pts | 72-56 | 76-63 |
| Total Points | 128 | 139 |
| Winners | 34 | 21 |
| %Winners | 47% | 28% |
Both Albot and Escoffier played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Albot and Escoffier have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Albot played 5 games less than Escoffier. Albot scored 34 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The French player managed to score 21 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Albot | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 7 |
| 1st in | 47/72 | 26/70 |
| %1st in | 65% | 37% |
| 1st pts | 34/47 | 21/26 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 10/25 | 27/44 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 61% |
Albot made 5 aces . Escoffier recorded 7 aces . Albot won 72% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Escoffier won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Albot | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 63% | 43% |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 71% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Radu broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Moldovan lost his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Antoine broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Escoffier conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Albot | |||
| R1 Couacaud |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 72-56 | 72-56 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 47/72 | 47/72 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 34/47 | 34/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/25 | 10/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Escoffier | |||
| R1 Uchida |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-63 | 76-63 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 26/70 | 26/70 | |
| % 1st in | 37% | 37% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 27/44 | 27/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Brandon HoltHolt – Alexander RitschardRitschard (4-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Keegan SmithSmith (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Li TuTu (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Paul JubbJubb (7-68 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Christopher EubanksEubanks (7-65 7-69) – See score progression
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Evan ZhuZhu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-4 7-62) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Kaichi UchidaUchida (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Nathaniel Lammons/Jack WithrowLammons/Jack Withrow – Dalibor Svrcina/Petros TsitsipasSvrcina/Petros Tsitsipas (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Govind NandaNanda (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (3-6 7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Gijs Brouwer/Reese StalderBrouwer/Reese Stalder – Robert Galloway/Alex LawsonGalloway/Alex Lawson (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-0 7-65) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Li TuTu (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Radu AlbotAlbot (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Brandon HoltHolt (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
