Mikael Ymer and Liam Broady will face off in the 2nd round of the Vancouver Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mikael Ymer who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mikael Ymer is the pick to win this match.
Mikael Ymer -> 1.41
Liam Broady -> 2.82
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Prediction and head to head Mikael Ymer vs. Liam Broady
There is no head to head record between Mikael Ymer and Liam Broady since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Mikael Ymer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24-18 | 6-7 | 3-3 | 11-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-25 | 9-6 | 3-8 | 17-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-24 | 9-5 | 10-7 | 5-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-11 | 6-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 54-20 | 13-4 | 20-7 | 17-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 77, Mikael got to the 2nd round after beating Manuel Guinard 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Swede had a good straight sets win against Guinard (6-3 6-1). During the match, Ymer scored 64 points vs Guinard’s 38. Ymer was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ymer couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 4 double faults. Mikael Ymer lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ymer put 71% of his first serves in, winning 74% (29/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (5/16) on the 2nd serve. Ymer was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Guinard 6 times.
Ymer has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (238-140). 7-3 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ymer has a composed51-27 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Ymer’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Montpellier and Washington.
Ymer has a compiled 15-16 win-loss record in 2022, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Vancouver Challenger
The Swede has never competed in this tournament before.
Liam Broady
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-18 | 8-13 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-28 | 23-9 | 2-4 | 15-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-25 | 16-9 | 2-5 | 10-5 | 8-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-26 | 19-10 | 7-5 | 16-7 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 2-4 | 9-4 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 130, the Brit reached the 2nd round after defeating Luke Saville 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Broady had a good straight sets win against Saville (6-4 6-2). During the match Broady scored 75 points vs Saville’s 51. The Brit was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Broady blasted 3 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Liam Broady was very efficient on serve to win 83% (29/35) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Liam broke Saville 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Liam’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger.
Broady has a composed 29-21 win-loss record in 2022, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ymer | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 |
| Pts | 64-38 | 75-51 |
| Total Points | 102 | 126 |
| Winners | 29 | 29 |
| %Winners | 45% | 39% |
Both Ymer and Broady played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ymer and Broady have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ymer played 2 games less than Broady. The Swede scored 29 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit managed to score 29 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ymer | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 3 |
| 1st in | 39/55 | 35/52 |
| %1st in | 71% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 29/35 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 5/16 | 11/17 |
| %2nd pts | 31% | 65% |
Ymer didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Broady recorded 3 aces . Ymer won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 31% of the points. On the other side, Broady won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ymer | Broady |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 3 |
| Converted | 6/6 | 3/12 |
| % Converted | 100% | 25% |
| Conceded | 7 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 2 |
| % Saved | 71% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
The Swede broke his opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Swede conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Liam broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Broady was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Ymer | |||
| R1 Guinard |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 64-38 | 64-38 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/55 | 39/55 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 29/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/16 | 5/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 31% | 31% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/6 | 6/6 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Broady | |||
| R1 Saville |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 75-51 | 75-51 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 35/52 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
LWWWLLLWLW Tennis Scores in Vancouver Challenger
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Elias YmerYmer (3-6 7-68 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Gabriel DialloDiallo (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gilles SimonSimon – Jiri VeselyVesely (2-6 6-3 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vasek PospisilVasek – Jordan ThompsonJordan (3-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Gilles SimonSimon (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael YmerYmer – Liam BroadyBroady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction
