Lucas Gerch and Maxime Janvier will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Heilbronn Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:30 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 Lucas Gerch who should win in 3 sets.
Lucas Gerch -> 1.42
Maxime Janvier -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Lucas Gerch vs. Maxime Janvier
This will be the 2nd time that Lucas Gerch and Maxime Janvier face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Gerch (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Gerch won 6-2 6-2 in the qualifications in the Heilbronn Challenger back in June 2023.
Lucas Gerch
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-17 | 6-4 | 20-11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-23 | 0-2 | 35-16 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 32-20 | 2-2 | 26-14 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 57-29 | 11-3 | 36-20 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-27 | 8-8 | 20-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 315, Gerch reached the 1st round after defeating Jose Pereira 6-1 6-4 and Maxime Janvier 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Gerch had a good straight sets win against Janvier (6-2 6-2). During the match, Gerch scored 65 points vs Janvier’s 42. Gerch was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gerch bagged 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Lucas Gerch conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 56% of his first serves in, win 100% (24/24) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Lucas broke Janvier 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Gerch started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
Gerch has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 61% of his matches (212-137). 10-7 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Gerch has a composed132-78 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
Gerch’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Krsko.
Lucas has a composed 13-11 win-loss record in 2023, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Heilbronn Challenger
Gerch has never competed in this tournament before.
Maxime Janvier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-35 | 6-7 | 9-19 | 11-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 26-43 | 2-13 | 11-17 | 10-12 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-36 | 12-9 | 10-16 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-36 | 3-8 | 13-18 | 4-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-36 | 4-6 | 10-16 | 8-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 343, Maxime reached the 1st round after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3 6-3.
Maxime has a compiled 7-14 win-loss record in 2023, 1-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gerch | Janvier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 18 |
| Pts | 130-90 | 63-40 |
| Total Points | 220 | 103 |
| Winners | 48 | 16 |
| %Winners | 37% | 25% |
Gerch played 2 matches while Janvier competed in 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Gerch has played 2 sets more than Janvier (4 vs 2). Therefore, Gerch played 15 games more than Janvier. The German scored 48 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Janvier blasted 16 winners (25%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gerch | Janvier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 5.5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 53/99 | 18/42 |
| %1st in | 54% | 43% |
| 1st pts | 48/53 | 16/18 |
| %1st pts | 91% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 23/46 | 20/24 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 83% |
Gerch blasted 11 aces (5.5 per match). Janvier fired 4 aces . Gerch won 91% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Janvier won 89% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 83% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gerch | Janvier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 3 |
| Converted | 8/14 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 57% | 50% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Lucas broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Lucas pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. Maxime broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The French player was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Gerch | ||||
| Q1 Pereira | Q3 Janvier | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 | 33 | |
| pts | 65-48 | 65-42 | 130-90 | |
| Total points | 113 | 107 | 220 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 29/56 | 24/43 | 53/99 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 56% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 24/29 | 24/24 | 48/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 100% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 9/19 | 23/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 47% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/9 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 44% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 0/0 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Janvier | ||||
| Q1 Ramanathan | Q3 Gerch | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 16 | 34 | |
| pts | 63-40 | – | 63-40 | |
| Total points | 103 | 0 | 103 | |
| Winners | 16 | 16 | ||
| %Winners | 25% | 0% | 25% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | ||
| 1st in | 18/42 | / | 18/42 | |
| % 1st in | 43% | 0% | 43% | |
| 1st pts | 16/18 | / | 16/18 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 0% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/24 | / | 20/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 83% | 0% | 83% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | ||
| Converted | 3/6 | / | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 0% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/ | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | ||
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- Marko TopoTopo – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
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