Antoine Bellier and Alex Bolt will square off in the qualifications of the Zhuhai Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Bolt who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Bolt is the pick to win this match.
Alex Bolt -> 1.77
Antoine Bellier -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Antoine Bellier vs. Alex Bolt
This will be the 2nd time that Antoine Bellier and Alex Bolt square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bellier (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bellier won 3-6 6-4 6-3 in the qualifications in the Canberra Challenger back in January 2023.
Antoine Bellier
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 6-10 | 6-4 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 34-32 | 13-12 | 2-5 | 11-11 | 1-4 | 7-0 |
2022 | 39-32 | 14-10 | 8-3 | 7-13 | 9-4 | 1-2 |
2021 | 35-31 | 14-12 | 3-6 | 11-9 | 3-1 | 4-3 |
2020 | 12-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 2-3 |
Ranked no. 314, Antoine reached the qualifications after beating Colin Sinclair 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Sinclair (6-3 6-4). During the match, Bellier scored 58 points vs Sinclair’s 43. Antoine was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bellier struck 19 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Antoine Bellier was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 79% (15/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bellier was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sinclair twice.
Bellier has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 55% of his matches (291-242). 11-10 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Bellier has an overall148-98 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Swiss’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25+H Ajaccio.
Bellier has a compiled 21-26 win-loss record in 2023, 11-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Zhuhai
Bellier has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Bolt
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 36-14 | 19-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 17-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 27-22 | 22-17 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 11-10 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 19-18 | 7-6 | 0-7 | 2-2 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
2020 | 12-12 | 12-8 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 323, Alex reached the qualifications after defeating Lorenzo Giustino 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Giustino (6-4 6-3). During the match Bolt scored 55 points vs Giustino’s 47. Bolt was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Bolt blasted 11 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Alex Bolt was very efficient on serve to win 91% (21/23) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Giustino 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Bolt’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Burnie,M25 Santo Domingo and M25 Bakersfield.
Bolt has an overall 25-20 win-loss record in 2023, 20-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Bellier | Bolt |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 |
Pts | 58-43 | 55-47 |
Total Points | 101 | 102 |
Winners | 28 | 21 |
%Winners | 48% | 38% |
Both Bellier and Bolt played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bellier and Bolt have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). The Swiss scored 28 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Bolt blasted 21 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Bellier | Bolt |
---|---|---|
Aces | 19 | 11 |
Avg per match | 19 | 11 |
1st in | 36/55 | 23/46 |
%1st in | 65% | 50% |
1st pts | 28/36 | 21/23 |
%1st pts | 78% | 91% |
2nd pts | 15/19 | 12/23 |
%2nd pts | 79% | 52% |
Bellier made 19 aces . Bolt fired 11 aces . Bellier won 78% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 79% of the points. On the other side, Bolt won 91% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Bellier | Bolt |
---|---|---|
Won | 2 | 4 |
Converted | 2/2 | 4/8 |
% Converted | 100% | 50% |
Conceded | 3 | 2 |
Saved | 3 | 1 |
% Saved | 100% | 50% |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Bellier broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Antoine very solid his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Australian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Alex conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
Bellier | |||
Q1 Sinclair |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 58-43 | 58-43 | |
Total points | 101 | 101 | |
Winners | 28 | 28 | |
%Winners | 48% | 48% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 19 | 19 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 36/55 | 36/55 | |
% 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
1st pts | 28/36 | 28/36 | |
% 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
2nd pts | 15/19 | 15/19 | |
% 2nd pts | 79% | 79% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Bolt | |||
Q1 Giustino |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 55-47 | 55-47 | |
Total points | 102 | 102 | |
Winners | 21 | 21 | |
%Winners | 38% | 38% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 11 | 11 | |
Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
1st in | 23/46 | 23/46 | |
% 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
1st pts | 21/23 | 21/23 | |
% 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
% 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
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