Antoine Escoffier and Kacper Zuk will play each other in the 1st round of the Ismaning Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kacper Zuk who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kacper Zuk is the pick to win this match.
Kacper Zuk -> 1.56
Antoine Escoffier -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Antoine Escoffier vs. Kacper Zuk
This will be the 3rd time that Antoine Escoffier and Kacper Zuk face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Escoffier and Zuk (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on carpet.
The last time that they competed against each other, Zuk won 7-6(2) 6-2 in the quarter in the Biel Challenger back in March 2022.
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 12-8 | 0-1 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 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. 211, Antoine will start his run in the Ismaning Challenger after he played his last match in the Captif Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-1 6-2 to Gombos in the 1st round on the 3rd of October.
Escoffier has an aggregate 36-28 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on carpet.
The French player best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Loughborough and M25 Nottingham.
Talking about his overall career, Antoine has an overall 416-240 record. He has a flat 2-2 record on carpet.
Previously in the Ismaning Challenger
Antoine has never competed in this tournament before.
Kacper Zuk
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 26-29 | 7-9 | 5-8 | 6-11 | 0-0 | 8-1 |
| 2022 | 35-27 | 12-7 | 6-9 | 12-9 | 0-1 | 5-1 |
| 2021 | 41-25 | 5-5 | 17-8 | 15-8 | 2-2 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 31-9 | 6-2 | 10-4 | 15-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 269, Zuk got to the 1st round after beating David Fix 6-1 6-3 and Stuart Parker 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Pole had a good straight sets win against Parker (6-4 7-5). During the match Zuk scored 72 points vs Parker’s 63. Kacper was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Zuk fired 14 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Kacper Zuk was quite effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 66% (19/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Pole broke Parker twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kacper started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Zuk’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Biel Challenger,M25 Tbilisi and M25 Falun.
Zuk has a composed 25-23 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ismaning Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Dennis NovakNovak (7-65 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel MasurMasur – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Julian LenzLenz – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Billy HarrisHarris (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Michael GeertsGeerts (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Robin HaaseHaase (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine BellierBellier – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kacper ZukZuk – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
