Flavio Cobolli and Ugo Blanchet will square off in the quarter of the Malaga Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Flavio Cobolli who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Flavio Cobolli is the pick to win this match.
Flavio Cobolli -> 1.51
Ugo Blanchet -> 2.47
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Prediction and head to head Flavio Cobolli vs. Ugo Blanchet
There is no head to head record between Flavio Cobolli and Ugo Blanchet since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Flavio Cobolli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-29 | 26-13 | 10-9 | 4-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-36 | 10-6 | 43-23 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 6-4 | 24-21 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-30 | 5-4 | 39-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-8 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 121 (career-high), the Italian got to the quarter after beating Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-2 ret. and Dimitar Kuzmanov 7-5 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Cobolli had a good straight sets win against Kuzmanov (7-5 6-4). During the match, Cobolli scored 66 points vs Kuzmanov’s 50. Flavio was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cobolli bagged 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Flavio Cobolli was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 71% (17/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cobolli broke Kuzmanov 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Cobolli has a winning record in the last 6 years having won 57% of his matches (140-106). 6-4 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Cobolli has a composed21-15 record in the last 6 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Lisbon Challenger where he defeated Benjamin Hassan in the final 7-5 7-5.
Flavio has a compiled 49-29 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Malaga Challenger
Flavio has never competed in this tournament before.
Ugo Blanchet
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-28 | 4-10 | 14-12 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-28 | 15-7 | 23-16 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-24 | 15-4 | 27-13 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-21 | 35-12 | 6-6 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
Ranked no. 324, Blanchet got to the quarter after defeating Ergi Kirkin 6-3 4-0 ret., Daniel Rincon 6-4 7-5, Sumit Nagal 6-1 3-0 ret. and Constant Lestienne 6-1 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Lestienne (6-1 6-4). During the match Blanchet scored 74 points vs Lestienne’s 51. Blanchet was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Blanchet managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ugo Blanchet was quite effective on serve to win 86% (25/29) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ugo broke Lestienne 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Blanchet started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
Ugo’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Uriage and M25 Monastir.
Ugo has an aggregate 35-24 win-loss record in 2023, 10-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cobolli | Blanchet |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 10 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 62 |
| Pts | 99-72 | 231-154 |
| Total Points | 171 | 385 |
| Winners | 35 | 93 |
| %Winners | 35% | 40% |
Cobolli played 2 matches while Blanchet competed in 4 matches. Blanchet started his run from the qualifications while Cobolli had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Cobolli has played 6 set(s) less than Blanchet (4 vs 10). Therefore, Cobolli played 32 games less than Blanchet. The Italian scored 35 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Blanchet bagged 93 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cobolli | Blanchet |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 20 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 5 |
| 1st in | 47/80 | 108/182 |
| %1st in | 59% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 35/47 | 93/108 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 23/33 | 42/74 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 57% |
Cobolli bagged 8 aces (4 per match). Blanchet blasted 20 aces (5 per match). Cobolli won 74% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Blanchet won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Cobolli | Blanchet |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 13 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 13/28 |
| % Converted | 50% | 46% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Italian broke his opponents 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Flavio lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Blanchet broke his opponents 13 times with a 46% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cobolli | ||||
| R1 Zapata Miralles |
R2 Kuzmanov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 ret. | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 8 | 22 | 30 | |
| pts | 33-22 | 66-50 | 99-72 | |
| Total points | 55 | 116 | 171 | |
| Winners | 11 | 24 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 36% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 15/24 | 32/56 | 47/80 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 57% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 11/15 | 24/32 | 35/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 75% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/9 | 17/24 | 23/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 71% | 70% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 3/5 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 60% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Blanchet | ||||||
| Q1 Kirkin |
Q3 Rincon |
R1 Nagal |
R2 Lestienne |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-0 ret. | 6-4 7-5 | 6-1 3-0 ret. | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 22 | 10 | 17 | 62 | |
| pts | 54-32 | 60-51 | 43-20 | 74-51 | 231-154 | |
| Total points | 86 | 111 | 63 | 125 | 385 | |
| Winners | 23 | 33 | 12 | 25 | 93 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 55% | 28% | 34% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 20 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 25/40 | 39/56 | 15/31 | 29/55 | 108/182 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 70% | 48% | 53% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 23/25 | 33/39 | 12/15 | 25/29 | 93/108 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 85% | 80% | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/15 | 11/17 | 8/16 | 16/26 | 42/74 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 65% | 50% | 62% | 57% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 2/4 | 5/7 | 3/10 | 13/28 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 50% | 71% | 30% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 3/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | – | – | 50% | 100% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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