Zizou Bergs and Luke Saville will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Surbiton Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zizou Bergs who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zizou Bergs is the pick to win this match.
Zizou Bergs -> 1.48
Luke Saville -> 2.51
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Prediction and head to head Zizou Bergs vs. Luke Saville
There is no head to head record between Zizou Bergs and Luke Saville since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Zizou Bergs
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-29 | 20-16 | 2-5 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-29 | 9-9 | 17-7 | 15-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-27 | 8-7 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 7-5 | 7-7 | 17-16 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-21 | 2-5 | 15-10 | 21-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 131, Zizou reached the 2nd round after beating Mark Whitehouse 7-64 6-2.
In the 1st round, Bergs had a good straight sets win against Whitehouse (7-64 6-2). During the match, Bergs scored 61 points vs Whitehouse’s 51. Zizou was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bergs bagged 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Zizou Bergs was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (34/40) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bergs broke Whitehouse twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Bergs has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (232-139). 1-0 on grass in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Bergs has a compiled9-2 match record in the last 8 years on grass.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Tallahassee Challenger where he beat Tung-Lin Wu in the final 7-5 6-2.
Bergs has an overall 16-15 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Surbiton Challenger
Zizou has never competed in this tournament before.
Luke Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-22 | 11-16 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 28-18 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 14-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-11 | 18-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 415, Saville got to the 2nd round after beating Nicolas Mejia 7-65 6-3, Jay Clarke 6-4 6-0 and Alexei Popyrin 6-73 6-4 7-66.
In the 1st round against Popyrin, Luke recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-73 6-4 7-66).During the match Saville scored less points (2) than Popyrin. In fact, the world no. 131 won 105 points vs Popyrin’s. That means that Saville was more focused during the important points. Saville was very aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Talking about serving, Saville recorded 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Luke Saville was quite effective on serve to win 75% (56/75) of his 1st serve and 60% (24/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Saville broke Popyrin twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Saville’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Swan Hill.
Luke has an aggregate 22-12 win-loss record in 2023, 9-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bergs | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 74 |
| Pts | 61-51 | 241-210 |
| Total Points | 112 | 451 |
| Winners | 34 | 117 |
| %Winners | 56% | 49% |
Bergs played 1 match while Saville competed in 3 matches. Saville started his run from the qualifications while Bergs had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Luke Saville surrendered 1 set while Zizou Bergs hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bergs has played 5 set(s) less than Saville (2 vs 7). Therefore, Bergs played 53 games less than Saville. The Belgian scored 34 winners (56% of the total points). On the other side, Saville fired 117 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bergs | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 4.7 |
| 1st in | 40/60 | 156/228 |
| %1st in | 67% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 34/40 | 117/156 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 42/72 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 58% |
Bergs scored 7 aces . Saville blasted 14 aces (4.7 per match). Bergs won 85% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Saville won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bergs | Saville |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 10 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 10/16 |
| % Converted | 67% | 63% |
| Conceded | 1 | 12 |
| Saved | 1 | 9 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Bergs broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Belgian extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Saville broke his opponents 10 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Bergs | |||
| R1 Whitehouse |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 61-51 | 61-51 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 56% | 56% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/60 | 40/60 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 34/40 | 34/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 12/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Saville | |||||
| Q1 Mejia |
Q3 Clarke |
R1 Popyrin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | 6-4 6-0 | 6-73 6-4 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 16 | 36 | 74 | |
| pts | 79-69 | 57-34 | 105-107 | 241-210 | |
| Total points | 148 | 91 | 212 | 451 | |
| Winners | 36 | 25 | 56 | 117 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 44% | 53% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 2 | 7 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 52/73 | 29/40 | 75/115 | 156/228 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 73% | 65% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 36/52 | 25/29 | 56/75 | 117/156 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 86% | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/21 | 8/11 | 24/40 | 42/72 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 73% | 60% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/7 | 2/4 | 10/16 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 57% | 50% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 1/1 | 4/5 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 100% | 80% | 247% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Surbiton Challenger
- Zizou BergsBergs – Mark WhitehouseWhitehouse (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Luke SavilleSaville – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-73 6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-3 6-77 6-3) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – James McCabeMcCabe (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Billy HarrisHarris (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Hugo GrenierGrenier (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Liam BroadyBroady (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Harry WendelkenWendelken (7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Daniel CoxCox (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-1 7-64) – See score progression
- Andy MurrayMurray – Hyeon ChungChung (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-3 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel EvansEvans – James McCabeMcCabe (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Liam BroadyBroady (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-3 6-7(7) 6-3) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Mark WhitehouseWhitehouse (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
- Luke SavilleSaville – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-7(3) 6-4 7-6(6)) – See score progression
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Daniel CoxCox (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Hugo GrenierGrenier (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Billy HarrisHarris (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Zachary SvajdaSvajda – Aleksandar VukicVukic (7-6(6) 6-3) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Harry WendelkenWendelken (7-6(2) 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Daniel EvansEvans – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis KudlaKudla – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Rinky HijikataHijikata (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Luke SavilleSaville (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Christopher EubanksEubanks (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Andy MurrayMurray (0-0) – H2H and prediction
