Luca Van Assche and Alexandar Lazarov will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Maia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Van Assche who should win in 3 sets.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.45
Alexandar Lazarov -> 2.67
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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Alexandar Lazarov
There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Alexandar Lazarov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Luca Van Assche
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-26 | 7-4 | 15-12 | 9-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-38 | 15-15 | 8-10 | 10-11 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 1-7 | 15-11 | 15-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-31 | 0-1 | 40-20 | 15-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 3-2 | 8-7 | 15-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 176 (career-high), Van Assche got to the 2nd round after beating Elias Ymer 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Van Assche had a good straight sets win against Ymer (6-2 6-1). During the match, Van Assche scored 57 points vs Ymer’s 29. Luca was exceptionally aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about the service games, Van Assche scored just 1 ace during the match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Luca Van Assche was exceptionally effective on serve to win 89% (16/18) of his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Ymer 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Van Assche has a solid win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 60% of his matches (84-57). 36-20 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Van Assche has a compiled50-29 record in the last 3 years on clay.
Van Assche’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15+H Bagnoles de l’Orne,the Lisbon Challenger,the Brest Challenger and the Valencia Challenger.
The French player has a compiled 51-31 win-loss record in 2022, 36-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Maia Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexandar Lazarov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-9 | 3-2 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 49-20 | 19-2 | 24-12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-22 | 11-5 | 34-15 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 6-1 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303, Lazarov got to the 2nd round after beating Kilian Feldbausch 6-1 7-63, Henrique Rocha 7-5 6-4 and Alessandro Giannessi 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Lazarov had a good straight sets win against Giannessi (6-3 6-4). During the match Lazarov scored 64 points vs Giannessi’s 50. The Bulgarian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Lazarov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alexandar Lazarov lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Lazarov put 71% of his first serves in, winning 76% (34/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. The Bulgarian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Giannessi 3 times.
Alexandar’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Sofia,M25 Tbilisi and M15 Sozopol.
The Bulgarian has a compiled 47-19 win-loss record in 2022, 23-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Van Assche | Lazarov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 61 |
| Pts | 57-29 | 215-175 |
| Total Points | 86 | 390 |
| Winners | 16 | 100 |
| %Winners | 28% | 47% |
Van Assche played 1 match while Lazarov competed in 3 matches. Lazarov started his run from the qualifications while Van Assche had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Van Assche has played 4 set(s) less than Lazarov (2 vs 6). Therefore, Van Assche played 46 games less than Lazarov. Van Assche scored 16 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, The Bulgarian bagged 100 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Van Assche | Lazarov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2.7 |
| 1st in | 18/34 | 140/205 |
| %1st in | 53% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 16/18 | 100/140 |
| %1st pts | 89% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 29/65 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 45% |
Van Assche made 1 ace . Lazarov also made 8 aces (2.7 per match). Van Assche won 89% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Lazarov won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Van Assche | Lazarov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 12 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 12/20 |
| % Converted | 63% | 60% |
| Conceded | 0 | 24 |
| Saved | 0 | 18 |
| % Saved | 0% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 6 |
Luca broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Van Assche had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Lazarov broke his opponents 12 times with a 60% conversion rate. Alexandar conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Van Assche | |||
| R1 Ymer | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-29 | 57-29 | |
| Total points | 86 | 86 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 18/34 | 18/34 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 16/18 | 16/18 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/16 | 12/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Lazarov | |||||
| Q1 Feldbausch | Q3 Rocha | R1 Giannessi | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-63 | 7-5 6-4 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 22 | 19 | 61 | |
| pts | 74-58 | 77-67 | 64-50 | 215-175 | |
| Total points | 132 | 144 | 114 | 390 | |
| Winners | 37 | 29 | 34 | 100 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 38% | 53% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 52/74 | 43/68 | 45/63 | 140/205 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 63% | 71% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 37/52 | 29/43 | 34/45 | 100/140 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 67% | 76% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/22 | 13/25 | 8/18 | 29/65 | |
| % 2nd pts | 36% | 52% | 44% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/10 | 3/3 | 12/20 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 50% | 100% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 | |
| Saved | 7/9 | 6/9 | 5/6 | 18 | |
| Saved % | 78% | 67% | 83% | 228% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
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