Benoit Paire and Dennis Novak will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:45 pm on COURT SOPRA STERIA. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dennis Novak who should win in 3 sets.
Dennis Novak -> 1.86
Benoit Paire -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Benoit Paire vs. Dennis Novak
This will be the 3rd time that Benoit Paire and Dennis Novak clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Paire and Novak (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Novak won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Cologne back in 2020.
Highlights Dennis Novak vs Benoit Paire – Cologne 14-October-2020
Benoit Paire
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7-16 | 3-6 | 3-5 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 11-30 | 6-12 | 0-9 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-38 | 13-12 | 27-17 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-31 | 7-13 | 6-14 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-32 | 6-12 | 7-13 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 152, Benoit will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 7-5 4-6 3-6 6-1 6-4 to Norrie in the 1st round on the 29th of May.
The French player has an overall 20-20 win-loss record in 2023, 8-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Puerto Vallarta Challenger where he overcame Yuta Shimizu in the final 3-6 6-0 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Paire has an overall 533-457 record. He has a positive 245-190 record on clay.
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Benoit has never competed in this tournament before.
Dennis Novak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-22 | 5-5 | 14-12 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-26 | 5-6 | 18-15 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 12-3 | 12-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 6-9 | 4-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-29 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 160, Novak reached the 1st round after defeating Oscar Jose Gutierrez 6-0 3-6 6-3 and Joao Domingues 7-5 6-0.
In the qualifications, Dennis had a good straight sets win against Domingues (7-5 6-0). During the match Novak scored 80 points vs Domingues’s 58. Dennis was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Novak bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Dennis Novak was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dennis broke Domingues 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Novak started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger where he defeated Tung-Lin Wu in the final 6-4 6-4.
Dennis has an aggregate 17-8 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Harold MayotMayot (6-71 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Llamas RuizPablo – Quentin HalysQuentin (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Alejandro Moro CanasAlejandro – Kaichi UchidaKaichi (6-1 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Benoit PairePaire – Dennis NovakNovak (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PouillePouille – Nick HardtHardt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dan AddedAdded – Mathias BourgueBourgue (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Michael GeertsGeerts (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Clement TaburTabur (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Maxime JanvierJanvier (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (1-1) – H2H and prediction