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.
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
| 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.
Norbert Gombos
| 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).
H2H Performance in the tournament
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 | |
Tennis Scores in Banja Luka Challenger
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Clement TaburTabur (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat – Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Mariano NavoneNavone (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marko TopoTopo – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Norbert GombosGombos – Benoit PairePaire (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex MolcanMolcan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (0-0) – H2H and prediction