Borna Gojo and Geoffrey Blancaneaux will square off in the semifinal of the Tunis Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 2:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Borna Gojo who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Borna Gojo is the pick to win this match.
Borna Gojo -> 1.35
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 3.08
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Prediction and head to head Borna Gojo vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux
This will be the 2nd time that Borna Gojo and Geoffrey Blancaneaux fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Gojo (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Gojo won 7-6(6) 6-4 in the quarter in the Istanbul 2 Challenger back in 2021.
Borna Gojo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-25 | 22-9 | 12-7 | 6-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-28 | 19-9 | 5-5 | 14-10 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-22 | 8-7 | 3-6 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-14 | 11-6 | 10-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 102 (career-high), Gojo reached the semifinal after defeating Nicolas Mejia 6-4 7-64, Rio Noguchi 6-2 6-1 and Jakub Mensik 6-2 6-0.
In the quarter, Gojo had a good straight sets win against Mensik (6-2 6-0). During the match, Gojo scored 55 points vs Mensik’s 25. Borna was extremely aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gojo bagged 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Borna Gojo was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (15/21) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Gojo broke Mensik 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gojo hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Gojo has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 59% of his matches (210-144). 11-5 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gojo has an aggregate47-40 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Croatian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Monterrey Challenger and the Murcia Challenger.
Gojo has an aggregate 26-12 win-loss record in 2023, 11-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tunis Challenger
The Croatian has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 180, Blancaneaux reached the semifinal after beating Joao Sousa 6-3 5-7 6-4, Kimmer Coppejans 6-2 2-6 6-3 and Maximilian Marterer 5-2 ret..
In the quarter against Marterer, the French player had a free pass after Marterer retired on a 5-2 . scoreline.
Blancaneaux’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Quimper Challenger.
The French player has an overall 14-15 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gojo | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 52 | 63 |
| Pts | 188-126 | 217-200 |
| Total Points | 314 | 417 |
| Winners | 70 | 103 |
| %Winners | 37% | 47% |
Both Gojo and Blancaneaux played 3 matches. At the moment, Geoffrey Blancaneaux dropped 2 sets while Borna Gojo hasn’t lost a set so far. Gojo has played 2 set(s) less than Blancaneaux (6 vs 8). Therefore, Gojo played 11 games less than Blancaneaux. Gojo scored 70 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Blancaneaux struck 103 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gojo | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 12 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1.7 |
| 1st in | 89/158 | 158/234 |
| %1st in | 56% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 70/89 | 103/158 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 40/69 | 32/76 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 42% |
Gojo struck 12 aces (4 per match). Blancaneaux managed to score 5 aces (1.7 per match). Gojo won 79% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Blancaneaux won 65% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gojo | Blancaneaux |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 13 | 12 |
| Converted | 13/22 | 12/23 |
| % Converted | 59% | 52% |
| Conceded | 10 | 22 |
| Saved | 7 | 13 |
| % Saved | 70% | 59% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 9 |
The Croatian broke his opponents 13 times with a 59% conversion rate. Gojo surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. Blancaneaux broke his opponents 12 times with a 52% conversion rate. Geoffrey conceded his serve 9 times and he saved 59% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gojo | |||||
| R1 Mejia |
R2 Noguchi |
1/4 Mensik |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-64 | 6-2 6-1 | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 15 | 14 | 52 | |
| pts | 77-71 | 56-30 | 55-25 | 188-126 | |
| Total points | 148 | 86 | 80 | 314 | |
| Winners | 33 | 22 | 15 | 70 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 39% | 27% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 45/81 | 23/41 | 21/36 | 89/158 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | 58% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 33/45 | 22/23 | 15/21 | 70/89 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 96% | 71% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | 11/18 | 11/15 | 40/69 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 61% | 73% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 4/6 | 6/11 | 13/22 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 67% | 55% | 59% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 100% | 0% | 58% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Blancaneaux | |||||
| R1 Sousa |
R2 Coppejans |
1/4 Marterer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 5-7 6-4 | 6-2 2-6 6-3 | 5-2 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 25 | 7 | 63 | |
| pts | 110-106 | 83-79 | 24-15 | 217-200 | |
| Total points | 216 | 162 | 39 | 417 | |
| Winners | 53 | 43 | 7 | 103 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 52% | 29% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 | |
| 1st in | 89/119 | 58/93 | 11/22 | 158/234 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 62% | 50% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 53/89 | 43/58 | 7/11 | 103/158 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 74% | 64% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/30 | 14/35 | 5/11 | 32/76 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 40% | 45% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 3/6 | 3/5 | 12/23 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | 60% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 6 | 4 | 22 | |
| Saved | 7/12 | 4/6 | 2/4 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 58% | 67% | 50% | 58% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWLWWLLL Tennis Scores in Tunis Challenger
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Aziz DougazDougaz (2-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Maximilian MartererMarterer (5-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Jakub MensikMensik (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-5 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Jakub MensikMensik (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Maximilian MartererMarterer (5-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Aziz DougazDougaz (2-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-5 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Borna GojoGojo – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Jesper De JongDe Jong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
