Alexandre Muller and Ugo Blanchet will square off in the 2nd round of the Olbia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTRALE. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexandre Muller who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexandre Muller is the pick to win this match.
Alexandre Muller -> 1.53
Ugo Blanchet -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Alexandre Muller vs. Ugo Blanchet
There is no head to head record between Alexandre Muller and Ugo Blanchet since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Alexandre Muller
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 31-27 | 9-13 | 20-12 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 21-13 | 3-2 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 85, Alexandre reached the 2nd round after beating Fabio Fognini 3-6 7-65 7-63.
In the 1st round against Fognini, The French player recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-65 7-63). During the match, Muller and Fognini scored the same amount of points (118). However, the world no. 85 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The French player was very aggressive to blast 50 winners.
Regarding the service games, Muller scored 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alexandre Muller lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Muller put 59% of his first serves in, winning 72% (50/69) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (23/47) on the 2nd serve. Muller broke Fognini 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Muller has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (359-235). 20-12 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Muller has a compiled109-61 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Montechiarugolo Challenger where he beat Francesco Maestrelli in the final 6-1 6-4.
Alexandre has a compiled 42-29 win-loss record in 2023, 20-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Olbia Challenger
Alexandre has never competed in this tournament before.
Ugo Blanchet
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 20-23 | 4-7 | 14-12 | 2-3 | 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. 209 (career-high), Blanchet got to the 2nd round after defeating Zdenek Kolar 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Kolar (7-5 6-1). During the match Blanchet scored 79 points vs Kolar’s 64. Ugo was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Blanchet scored 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Ugo Blanchet was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (31/42) of his 1st serve and 55% (22/40) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Blanchet broke Kolar 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Malaga Challenger where he defeated Mattia Bellucci in the final 6-4 6-4.
Blanchet has an aggregate 39-24 win-loss record in 2023, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Muller | Blanchet |
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Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
Tot Games | 35 | 19 |
Pts | 118-118 | 79-64 |
Total Points | 236 | 143 |
Winners | 50 | 31 |
%Winners | 42% | 39% |
Both Muller and Blanchet played 1 match. At the moment, Alexandre Muller conceded 1 set while Ugo Blanchet hasn’t conceded a set so far. Muller has played 1 set more than Blanchet (3 vs 2). Therefore, Muller played 16 games more than Blanchet. Alexandre scored 50 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Ugo made 31 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Muller | Blanchet |
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Aces | 9 | 3 |
Avg per match | 9 | 3 |
1st in | 69/116 | 42/82 |
%1st in | 59% | 51% |
1st pts | 50/69 | 31/42 |
%1st pts | 72% | 74% |
2nd pts | 23/47 | 22/40 |
%2nd pts | 49% | 55% |
Muller managed to score 9 aces . Blanchet struck 3 aces . Muller won 72% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Blanchet won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Muller | Blanchet |
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Won | 3 | 3 |
Converted | 3/10 | 3/7 |
% Converted | 30% | 43% |
Conceded | 11 | 8 |
Saved | 7 | 8 |
% Saved | 64% | 100% |
Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Alexandre broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Muller dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Blanchet was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 8 break points.
Muller | |||
R1 Fognini |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 3-6 7-65 7-63 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
pts | 118-118 | 118-118 | |
Total points | 236 | 236 | |
Winners | 50 | 50 | |
%Winners | 42% | 42% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 9 | 9 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 69/116 | 69/116 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
1st pts | 50/69 | 50/69 | |
% 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 23/47 | 23/47 | |
% 2nd pts | 49% | 49% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
Saved | 7/11 | 7 | |
Saved % | 64% | 64% | |
Times Broken | 4 | 4 |
Blanchet | |||
R1 Kolar |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
pts | 79-64 | 79-64 | |
Total points | 143 | 143 | |
Winners | 31 | 31 | |
%Winners | 39% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
1st in | 42/82 | 42/82 | |
% 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
1st pts | 31/42 | 31/42 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
2nd pts | 22/40 | 22/40 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
Saved | 8/8 | 8 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
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