H2H, prediction of Benoit Paire vs Norbert Gombos in Banja Luka Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 10th August 2023

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Prediction and head to head Benoit Paire vs. Norbert Gombos

Benoit Paire and Norbert Gombos will play each other in the 2nd round of the Banja Luka Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CENTRAL COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Benoit Paire who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Benoit Paire is the pick to win this match.
Benoit Paire -> 1.3
Norbert Gombos -> 3.3

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Prediction and head to head Benoit Paire vs. Norbert Gombos

This will be the 3rd time that Benoit Paire and Norbert Gombos play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Paire and Gombos (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Paire won 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in Valencia back in 2015.

Benoit Paire

Benoit Paire
Benoit Paire

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Rank
414
High
18
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
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
2020 10-13 8-6 1-3 1-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 127, Benoit reached the 2nd round after defeating Aldin Setkic 6-2 7-5.

In the 1st round, Benoit had a good straight sets win against Setkic (6-2 7-5). During the match, Paire scored 69 points vs Setkic’s 54. The French player was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Paire scored 14 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Benoit Paire lost the serve once and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Paire put 52% of his first serves in, winning 84% (27/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (15/30) on the 2nd serve. Paire broke Setkic 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Paire has good record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (286-276). 20-12 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Paire has an overall 104-97 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Puerto Vallarta Challenger where he overcame Yuta Shimizu in the final 3-6 6-0 6-2 and the San Benedetto Challenger where he overcame Richard Gasquet in the final 4-6 6-1 6-1.

The French player has a composed 32-24 win-loss record in 2023, 20-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Banja Luka Challenger

Benoit has never competed in this tournament before.

Paire
Banja Luka Challenger
Paire's Record

Norbert Gombos

Norbert Gombos
Norbert Gombos

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Rank
431
High
80
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 23-23 13-3 10-13 0-7 0-0 0-0
2023 18-23 2-4 11-10 4-7 1-2 0-0
2022 41-28 7-3 28-17 6-8 0-0 0-0
2021 26-30 0-9 13-10 12-8 1-3 0-0
2020 18-11 6-4 2-1 10-6 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 229, Norbert got to the 2nd round after beating Filip Cristian Jianu 7-60 6-2.

In the 1st round, Norbert had a good straight sets win against Cristian Jianu (7-60 6-2). During the match Gombos scored 74 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 57. Gombos was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Gombos struck 3 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Norbert Gombos was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Slovakian broke Cristian Jianu 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Norbert’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Split Challenger.

The Slovakian has an overall 15-16 win-loss record in 2023, 10-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Gombos
Banja Luka Challenger
Gombos's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

B.Paire
N.Gombos
1h:20
1h:20
Time on court​
1h:41
1h:41
1h:20
1h:20
Last match​
1h:41
1h:41
1
1
Match played
1
1
20
20
Games Played​
21
21
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
69
69
Total points​
74
74
69
69
Avg point​
74
74
27
27
Winners
27
27
27
27
Avg Winners​
27
27
39%
39%
Ratio winners
36%
36%
-- Serve --
14
14
Aces
3
3
!
14
14
Avg Aces
3
3
4
4
Double Faults
0
0
4
4
Avg Double Faults
0
0
27/32
27/32
1st won total​
27/36
27/36
!
84%
84%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
15/30
15/30
2nd won total​
15/22
15/22
50%
50%
2nd won %
!
68%
68%
-- Break Points --
4/7
4/7
BP won
3/7
3/7
4/7
4/7
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
!
57%
57%
Won
43%
43%
8
8
Conceded
1
1
8
8
Avg Conceded
1
1
1
1
Broken
1
1
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
7
7
Saved
0
0

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Paire Gombos
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 21
Pts 69-54 74-57
Total Points 123 131
Winners 27 27
%Winners 39% 36%

Both Paire and Gombos played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Paire and Gombos have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Paire played 1 game less than Gombos. Benoit scored 27 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Norbert made 27 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve Paire Gombos
Aces 14 3
Avg per match 14 3
1st in 32/62 36/58
%1st in 52% 62%
1st pts 27/32 27/36
%1st pts 84% 75%
2nd pts 15/30 15/22
%2nd pts 50% 68%

Paire bagged 14 aces . Gombos scored 3 aces . Paire won 84% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Gombos won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Paire Gombos
Won 4 3
Converted 4/7 3/7
% Converted 57% 43%
Conceded 8 1
Saved 7 0
% Saved 88% 0%
Times Broken 1 1

Paire broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Paire conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. Gombos broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Norbert conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.

Paire
R1
Setkic
Total
Score 6-2 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 69-54 69-54
Total points 123 123
Winners 27 27
%Winners 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 14 14
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 32/62 32/62
% 1st in 52% 52%
1st pts 27/32 27/32
% 1st pts 84% 84%
2nd pts 15/30 15/30
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 4 4
Converted 4/7 4/7
Converted % 57% 57%
Conceded 8 8
Saved 7/8 7
Saved % 88% 88%
Times Broken 1 1
Gombos
R1
Cristian
Total
Score 7-60 6-2
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 21 21
pts 74-57 74-57
Total points 131 131
Winners 27 27
%Winners 36% 36%
SERVE
Aces 3 3
Double Faults 0 0
1st in 36/58 36/58
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 27/36 27/36
% 1st pts 75% 75%
2nd pts 15/22 15/22
% 2nd pts 68% 68%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/7 3/7
Converted % 43% 43%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Paire
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Gombos
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2024 2023 2022
11 - 30
23 - 22
6-12
Hard
13-3
4-7
I Hard
0-6
0-9
Clay
10-13
1-2
Grass
0-0

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