Richard Gasquet and Joao Sousa will square off in the 2nd round of the ASB Classic for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Richard Gasquet who should win in 2 sets.
Richard Gasquet -> 1.38
Joao Sousa -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Richard Gasquet vs. Joao Sousa
This will be the 3rd time that Richard Gasquet and Joao Sousa face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Gasquet and Sousa (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Gasquet won 7-6(7) 6-2 4-6 4-6 6-3 in the 1st round in at the Wimbledon back in 2022.
Richard Gasquet
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6-7 | 1-2 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-32 | 15-8 | 11-12 | 3-8 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-31 | 9-9 | 8-10 | 7-8 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-25 | 8-6 | 13-10 | 11-8 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-20 | 6-5 | 9-7 | 8-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 67, the French player reached the 2nd round after beating Kiranpal Pannu 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Richard had a good straight sets win against Pannu (6-3 6-1). During the match, Gasquet scored 65 points vs Pannu’s 37. Richard was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gasquet bagged 5 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Richard Gasquet was very effective on serve to win 92% (22/24) of his 1st serve and 91% (10/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Richard broke Pannu 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Gasquet has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (266-168). 1-1 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Gasquet has a composed 83-60 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Gasquet has an aggregate 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Auckland
Richard has never competed in this tournament before.
Joao Sousa
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-33 | 6-8 | 10-20 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 25-34 | 10-12 | 10-11 | 5-7 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-31 | 11-9 | 4-11 | 11-6 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-13 | 0-5 | 2-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 82, Sousa reached the 2nd round after defeating Finn Reynolds 7-61 6-4.
Sousa has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gasquet | Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 23 |
| Pts | 65-37 | 74-58 |
| Total Points | 102 | 132 |
| Winners | 22 | 28 |
| %Winners | 34% | 38% |
Both Gasquet and Sousa played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gasquet and Sousa have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gasquet played 7 games less than Sousa. Gasquet scored 22 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Sousa struck 28 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gasquet | Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 24/35 | 36/57 |
| %1st in | 69% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 28/36 |
| %1st pts | 92% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 10/11 | 14/21 |
| %2nd pts | 91% | 67% |
Gasquet struck 5 aces . Sousa bagged 1 ace . Gasquet won 92% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 91% of the points. On the other side, Sousa won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gasquet | Sousa |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 3/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 43% |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Gasquet broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Gasquet pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Sousa broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gasquet | |||
| R1 Pannu | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 65-37 | 65-37 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 24/35 | 24/35 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 22/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 92% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/11 | 10/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 91% | 91% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sousa | ||||
| Q1 Reynolds | Q3 Eubanks | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-61 6-4 | 6-73 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 35 | 58 | |
| pts | 74-58 | – | 74-58 | |
| Total points | 132 | 0 | 132 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | ||
| %Winners | 38% | 0% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | ||
| 1st in | 36/57 | / | 36/57 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 0% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 28/36 | / | 28/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 0% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | / | 14/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 0% | 67% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | ||
| Converted | 3/7 | / | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 0% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | ||
| Saved | 2/4 | 0/ | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | ||
Tennis Scores in Auckland
- Quentin HalysHalys – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Sebastian BaezBaez (7-61 6-1) – See score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (3-6 6-1 7-64) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – John IsnerIsner (6-73 7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Federico CoriaCoria (6-75 6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Ugo HumbertHumbert (7-64 7-63) – See score progression
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Fabio FogniniFognini (6-72 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Kiranpal PannuPannu (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Marcel Granollers/Horacio ZeballosGranollers/Horacio Zeballos – Alex Lawson/Artem SitakLawson/Artem Sitak (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Pedro CachinCachin (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- David GoffinGoffin – Alexander BublikBublik (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (3-6 6-1 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Ugo HumbertHumbert (7-6(4) 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Sebastian BaezBaez (7-6(1) 6-1) – See score progression
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Joao SousaSousa – Richard GasquetGasquet (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (5-4) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – David GoffinGoffin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Casper RuudRuud – Laslo DjereDjere (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Marcos GironGiron (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-1) – H2H and prediction