Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Alastair Gray will square off in the 2^nd round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:30 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Geoffrey Blancaneaux who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Geoffrey Blancaneaux is the pick to win this match.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 1.81
Alastair Gray -> 1.952

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Prediction and head to head Geoffrey Blancaneaux vs. Alastair Gray

There is no head to head record between Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Alastair Gray since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Geoffrey Blancaneaux

Ranked no. 144 (career-high), the French player reached the 2^nd round after defeating Alibek Kachmazov 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Geoffrey had a good straight sets win against Kachmazov (6-4 6-4). During the match, Blancaneaux scored 72 points vs Kachmazov’s 60. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Blancaneaux fired 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Geoffrey Blancaneaux lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Blancaneaux put 69% of his first serves in, winning 76% (31/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (7/18) on the 2nd serve. Geoffrey broke Kachmazov 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Blancaneaux has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (241-171). 15-7 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Blancaneaux has an aggregate82-36 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

Geoffrey’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Santo Domingo.

Geoffrey has an overall 31-26 win-loss record in 2022, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Istanbul Challenger

Alastair Gray

Ranked no. 248 (career-high), Gray got to the 2^nd round after beating Hamad Medjedovic 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Alastair had a good straight sets win against Medjedovic (6-4 6-4). During the match Gray scored 66 points vs Medjedovic’s 61. The Brit was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Gray blasted 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alastair Gray conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Gray put 71% of his first serves in, winning 67% (33/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Alastair broke Medjedovic twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).

Alastair’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Shrewsbury,M25 Glasgow,M25 Trimbach and M25 Nottingham.

Alastair has an aggregate 40-17 win-loss record in 2022, 10-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Blancaneaux	Gray
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
Pts	72-60	66-61
Total Points	132	127
Winners	31	33
%Winners	43%	50%

Both Blancaneaux and Gray played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Blancaneaux and Gray have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (20). Blancaneaux scored 31 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Alastair bagged 33 winners (50%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Blancaneaux	Gray
Aces	3	5
Avg per match	3	5
1st in	41/59	49/69
%1st in	69%	71%
1st pts	31/41	33/49
%1st pts	76%	67%
2nd pts	7/18	14/20
%2nd pts	39%	70%

Blancaneaux fired 3 aces . Gray managed to score 5 aces . Blancaneaux won 76% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 39% of the points. On the other side, Gray won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Blancaneaux	Gray
Won	4	2
Converted	4/9	2/5
% Converted	44%	40%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2	4
% Saved	50%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

Blancaneaux broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Alastair broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Gray was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Blancaneaux
	R1 Kachmazov	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	72-60	72-60
Total points	132	132
Winners	31	31
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	41/59	41/59
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	31/41	31/41
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	7/18	7/18
% 2nd pts	39%	39%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Gray
	R1 Medjedovic	Total
Score	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	20	20
pts	66-61	66-61
Total points	127	127
Winners	33	33
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	49/69	49/69
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	33/49	33/49
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	14/20	14/20
% 2nd pts	70%	70%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/5	2/5
Converted %	40%	40%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	4/4	4
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger

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• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

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