Matteo Martineau and Blaise Bicknell will face off in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 Blaise Bicknell who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaise Bicknell is the pick to win this match.
Blaise Bicknell -> 1.79
Matteo Martineau -> 1.95
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Martineau vs. Blaise Bicknell
There is no head to head record between Matteo Martineau and Blaise Bicknell since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Matteo Martineau
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-15 | 0-1 | 7-8 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-36 | 0-1 | 23-17 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 9-3 |
| 2022 | 36-31 | 2-1 | 23-20 | 11-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-26 | 4-4 | 27-15 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2020 | 19-14 | 4-3 | 7-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 6-3 |
Ranked no. 331, Martineau will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in the Como Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Guinard in the qualifications on the 28th of August.
The French player has a compiled 35-26 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Matteo’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Nussloch and M25 Muttenz.
Talking about his overall career, Martineau has an overall 235-182 record. He has a positive 52-31 record on hard.
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Martineau has never competed in this tournament before.
Blaise Bicknell
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-10 | 5-4 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-16 | 22-9 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 13-10 | 15-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-9 | 8-6 | 4-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 466 (career-high), the American reached the 1st round after beating Boris Butulija 6-2 6-2 and Vladyslav Orlov 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Orlov (6-0 6-1). During the match Bicknell scored 56 points vs Orlov’s 25. The American was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Bicknell scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Blaise Bicknell was pretty effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of his 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bicknell broke Orlov 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Bicknell started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 64% of the points he played.
Blaise’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 San Diego,M25 Laval and the Lima Challenger.
The American has an overall 24-6 win-loss record in 2023, 17-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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