Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Valentin Royer will play each other in the 1st round of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on CENTRAL TAG HEUER. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.53
Valentin Royer -> 2.37
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Prediction and head to head Geoffrey Blancaneaux vs. Valentin Royer
There is no head to head record between Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Valentin Royer since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-17 | 6-5 | 6-11 | 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. 147, Blancaneaux will start his run in the St. Tropez Challenger after he played his last match in the Alicante Challenger where he lost 6-2 1-0 ret. to Hardt in the 1st round on the 4th of October.
Geoffrey has a compiled 35-30 win-loss record in 2022, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Blancaneaux’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Santo Domingo.
Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 245-175 record. He has a positive 84-38 record on hard.
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Valentin Royer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-17 | 2-1 | 21-9 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-15 | 4-4 | 4-3 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 361 (career-high), Valentin got to the 1st round after defeating Calvin Hemery 6-3 6-3 and Maxime Chazal 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Royer had a good straight sets win against Chazal (6-3 6-4). During the match Royer scored 63 points vs Chazal’s 57. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Royer managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Valentin Royer was very effective on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The French player broke Chazal 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Royer started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Royer’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Ulcinj,M25 Ulcinj and M25 Casinalbo.
The French player has an aggregate 45-22 win-loss record in 2022, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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