Alexander Ritschard and Tim Handel will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Zug Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Ritschard who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Ritschard is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Ritschard -> 1.21
Tim Handel -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Ritschard vs. Tim Handel
There is no head to head record between Alexander Ritschard and Tim Handel since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Alexander Ritschard
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-14 | 7-3 | 16-6 | 5-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-13 | 11-5 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 173, Ritschard will start his run in the Zug Challenger after he played his last match in Gstaad where he lost 6-3 6-3 to Munar Clar in the 1st round on the 17th of July.
Alexander has an overall 17-20 win-loss record in 2023, 12-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Ritschard’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Lyon Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Ritschard has an overall 276-186 record. He has a positive 155-88 record on clay.
Previously in the Zug Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See his history.
Tim Handel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-11 | 2-2 | 8-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-30 | 2-3 | 41-19 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 3-4 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 5-2 | 22-15 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 43-22 | 9-9 | 31-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-5 | 7-2 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 498, Handel got to the 1st round after defeating Karl Friberg 6-4 4-6 7-62 and Eduardo Ribeiro 7-64 7-63.
In the qualifications, Tim had a good straight sets win against Ribeiro (7-64 7-63). During the match Handel scored 95 points vs Ribeiro’s 85. Tim was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Handel scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tim Handel was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (38/48) of his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Handel broke Ribeiro twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The German started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Tim’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Warmbad Villach and M25 Jablonec nad Nisou.
The German has a composed 26-16 win-loss record in 2023, 21-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
The German has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Gianmarco FerrariFerrari – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (6-0 7-63) – See score progression
- Dylan DietrichDietrich – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (6-2 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Remy BertolaBertola – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (6-77 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Damien WengerWenger (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Tim HandelHandel – Eduardo RibeiroRibeiro (7-64 7-63) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Zizou BergsBergs (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Harold MayotMayot (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Tim HandelHandel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Jelle SelsSels (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Remy BertolaBertola – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matheus Pucinelle De AlmeidaPucinelle De Almeida – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
