Ugo Blanchet and Maxime Janvier will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Malaga Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ugo Blanchet who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Ugo Blanchet is the pick to win this match.
Ugo Blanchet -> 1.68
Maxime Janvier -> 2.12

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Prediction and head to head Ugo Blanchet vs. Maxime Janvier

There is no head to head record between Ugo Blanchet and Maxime Janvier since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Ugo Blanchet

Ranked no. 324, Ugo reached the semifinal after defeating Ergi Kirkin 6-3 4-0 ret., Daniel Rincon 6-4 7-5, Sumit Nagal 6-1 3-0 ret., Constant Lestienne 6-1 6-4 and Flavio Cobolli 6-3 6-1.

In the quarter, Ugo had a good straight sets win against Cobolli (6-3 6-1). During the match, Blanchet scored 58 points vs Cobolli’s 42. The French player was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Talking about the service games, Blanchet struck 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Ugo Blanchet was quite effective on serve to win 82% (18/22) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ugo broke Cobolli 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Blanchet started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

Blanchet has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (190-120). 11-6 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Blanchet has an aggregate81-36 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.

Ugo’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Uriage and M25 Monastir.

The French player has an aggregate 36-24 win-loss record in 2023, 11-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Malaga Challenger

The French player has never competed in this tournament before.

Maxime Janvier

Ranked no. 397, the French player got to the semifinal after beating Maximilian Neuchrist 6-4 6-4, Kyrian Jacquet 7-6⁵ 6-7⁶ 6-3, Maximilian Marterer 6-2 3-6 6-3, Thiago Agustin Tirante 6-7³ 6-3 7-6³ and Billy Harris 7-6⁵ 6-3.

In the quarter, The French player had a good straight sets win against Harris (7-6⁵ 6-3). During the match Janvier scored 75 points vs Harris’s 65. Janvier was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Janvier blasted 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Maxime Janvier was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (36/50) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The French player was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Harris 3 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Maxime started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 3 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

The French player has an aggregate 24-31 win-loss record in 2023, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Blanchet	Janvier
Match played	5	5
Tot Set	12	13
Tot Games	78	138
Pts	289-196	434-394
Total Points	485	828
Winners	111	207
%Winners	38%	48%

Both Blanchet and Janvier played 5 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Maxime Janvier conceded 3 sets while Ugo Blanchet hasn’t lost a set so far. Blanchet has played 1 set(s) less than Janvier (12 vs 13). Therefore, Blanchet played 60 games less than Janvier. Blanchet scored 111 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Maxime fired 207 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Blanchet	Janvier
Aces	23	42
Avg per match	4.6	8.4
1st in	130/230	275/420
%1st in	57%	65%
1st pts	111/130	207/275
%1st pts	85%	75%
2nd pts	56/100	79/145
%2nd pts	56%	54%

Blanchet blasted 23 aces (4.6 per match). Janvier managed to score 42 aces (8.4 per match). Blanchet won 85% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Janvier won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Blanchet	Janvier
Won	18	16
Converted	18/35	16/28
% Converted	51%	57%
Conceded	9	21
Saved	7	13
% Saved	78%	62%
Times Broken	2	8

Blanchet broke his opponents 18 times with a 51% conversion rate. Blanchet lost his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded. Maxime broke his opponents 16 times with a 57% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded.

Blanchet
	Q1 Kirkin	Q3 Rincon	R1 Nagal	R2 Lestienne	1/4 Cobolli	Total
Score	6-3 4-0 ret.	6-4 7-5	6-1 3-0 ret.	6-1 6-4	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	2	10
Tot Games	13	22	10	17	16	78
pts	54-32	60-51	43-20	74-51	58-42	289-196
Total points	86	111	63	125	100	485
Winners	23	33	12	25	18	111
%Winners	43%	55%	28%	34%	31%	38%
SERVE
Aces	6	6	5	3	3	23
Double Faults	3	1	1	3	3	11
1st in	25/40	39/56	15/31	29/55	22/48	130/230
% 1st in	63%	70%	48%	53%	46%	57%
1st pts	23/25	33/39	12/15	25/29	18/22	111/130
% 1st pts	92%	85%	80%	86%	82%	85%
2nd pts	7/15	11/17	8/16	16/26	14/26	56/100
% 2nd pts	47%	65%	50%	62%	54%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	2	5	3	5	18
Converted	3/7	2/4	5/7	3/10	5/7	18/35
Converted %	43%	50%	71%	30%	71%	51%
Conceded	0	0	2	3	4	9
Saved	0/0	0/0	1/2	3/3	3/4	7
Saved %	–	–	50%	100%	75%	45%
Times Broken	0	0	1	0	1	2

Janvier
	Q1 Neuchrist	Q3 Jacquet	R1 Marterer	R2 Agustin	1/4 Harris	Total
Score	6-4 6-4	7-65 6-76 6-3	6-2 3-6 6-3	6-73 6-3 7-63	7-65 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	3	3	2	13
Tot Games	20	35	26	35	22	138
pts	58-47	118-108	83-78	100-96	75-65	434-394
Total points	105	226	161	196	140	828
Winners	27	47	45	52	36	207
%Winners	47%	40%	54%	52%	48%	48%
SERVE
Aces	11	4	15	6	6	42
Double Faults	2	6	5	10	4	27
1st in	33/53	64/102	60/81	68/104	50/80	275/420
% 1st in	62%	63%	74%	65%	63%	65%
1st pts	27/33	47/64	45/60	52/68	36/50	207/275
% 1st pts	82%	73%	75%	76%	72%	75%
2nd pts	14/20	24/38	8/21	17/36	16/30	79/145
% 2nd pts	70%	63%	38%	47%	53%	54%
Breaks
Won	2	4	3	4	3	16
Converted	2/7	4/8	3/4	4/6	3/3	16/28
Converted %	29%	50%	75%	67%	100%	57%
Conceded	0	5	7	4	5	21
Saved	0/0	3/5	6/7	1/4	3/5	13
Saved %	–	60%	86%	25%	60%	46%
Times Broken	0	2	1	3	2	8

Tennis Scores in Malaga Challenger

• Emilio NavaNava – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (2-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Mattia BellucciBellucci – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Maxime JanvierJanvier – Billy HarrisHarris (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrew Harris/John-Patrick SmithHarris/John-Patrick Smith – Francisco Cabral/Henry PattenCabral/Henry Patten (1-6 6-4 10-8) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Maxime JanvierJanvier – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Emilio NavaNava – (1-0) – H2H and prediction