Alex Michelsen and Titouan Droguet will face off in the semifinal of the Champaign Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Alex Michelsen who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.51
Titouan Droguet -> 2.47

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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Titouan Droguet

There is no head to head record between Alex Michelsen and Titouan Droguet since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Alex Michelsen

Ranked no. 99 (career-high), the American reached the semifinal after beating Bernard Tomic 6-4 6-0, Sebastian Fanselow 6-3 6-2 and Martin Damm 6-1 1-6 6-4.

In the quarter, The American defeated Damm (6-1 1-6 6-4). During the match, Michelsen scored 80 points vs Damm’s 66. Michelsen was very aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Michelsen fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Michelsen lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Michelsen put 68% of his first serves in, winning 83% (35/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Michelsen broke Damm 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Michelsen has conceded 2 set in this tournament to conquer 58% of the points he played.

Michelsen has a fantastic record in the last 2 years having won 72% of his matches (83-33). 18-3 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Michelsen has an overall27-4 win-loss record in the last 2 years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Chicago Challenger where he defeated Yuta Shimizu in the final 7-5 6-2 and the Knoxville Challenger where he defeated Denis Kudla in the final 7-5 4-6 6-2.

The American has a composed 60-23 win-loss record in 2023, 18-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Champaign Challenger

Michelsen has never competed in this tournament before.

Titouan Droguet

Ranked no. 169, the French player got to the semifinal after beating Viktor Durasovic 6-2 6-3, Brandon Holt 6-4 6-3 and Mitchell Krueger 6-4 6-1.

In the quarter, Titouan had a good straight sets win against Krueger (6-4 6-1). During the match Droguet scored 62 points vs Krueger’s 37. Droguet was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Droguet blasted 8 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Titouan Droguet was very efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Droguet was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Krueger 3 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Titouan hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 59% of the points he played.

Titouan’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Cherbourg Challenger,M25 Grasse,M25 Montauban,the Modena Challenger and the Amersfoort Challenger.

Titouan has an aggregate 44-23 win-loss record in 2023, 13-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Michelsen	Droguet
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	7	6
Tot Games	57	53
Pts	201-143	177-123
Total Points	344	300
Winners	86	78
%Winners	43%	44%

Both Michelsen and Droguet played 3 matches. At the moment, Alex Michelsen lost 1 set while Titouan Droguet hasn’t dropped a set so far. Michelsen has played 1 set more than Droguet (7 vs 6). Therefore, Michelsen played 4 games more than Droguet. Alex scored 86 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Titouan recorded 78 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Michelsen	Droguet
Aces	16	26
Avg per match	5.3	8.7
1st in	102/152	97/163
%1st in	67%	60%
1st pts	86/102	78/97
%1st pts	84%	80%
2nd pts	28/50	41/66
%2nd pts	56%	62%

Michelsen managed to score 16 aces (5.3 per match). Droguet managed to score 26 aces (8.7 per match). Michelsen won 84% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Droguet won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Michelsen	Droguet
Won	10	9
Converted	10/20	9/14
% Converted	50%	64%
Conceded	5	8
Saved	3	7
% Saved	60%	88%
Times Broken	2	1

The American broke his opponents 10 times with a 50% conversion rate. Michelsen surrendered his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponents 9 times with a 64% conversion rate. Titouan conceded his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded.

Michelsen
	R1 Tomic	R1 Tomic	R2 Fanselow	R2 Fanselow	1/4 Damm	1/4 Damm	Total
Score	6-4 6-0	6-4 6-0	6-3 6-2	6-3 6-2	6-1 1-6 6-4	6-1 1-6 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	3	3	14
Tot Games	16	16	17	17	24	24	114
pts	62-35	62-35	59-42	59-42	80-66	80-66	402-286
Total points	97	97	101	101	146	146	688
Winners	21	21	30	30	35	35	172
%Winners	34%	34%	51%	51%	44%	44%	43%
SERVE
Aces	5	5	5	5	6	6	32
Double Faults	2	2	3	3	2	2	14
1st in	24/42	24/42	36/48	36/48	42/62	42/62	204/304
% 1st in	57%	57%	75%	75%	68%	68%	67%
1st pts	21/24	21/24	30/36	30/36	35/42	35/42	172/204
% 1st pts	88%	88%	83%	83%	83%	83%	84%
2nd pts	12/18	12/18	6/12	6/12	10/20	10/20	56/100
% 2nd pts	67%	67%	50%	50%	50%	50%	56%
Breaks
Won	4	4	3	3	3	3	20
Converted	4/7	4/7	3/4	3/4	3/9	3/9	20/40
Converted %	57%	57%	75%	75%	33%	33%	50%
Conceded	2	2	0	0	3	3	10
Saved	2/2	2/2	0/0	0/0	1/3	1/3	6
Saved %	100%	100%	–	–	33%	33%	44%
Times Broken	0	0	0	0	2	2	4

Droguet
	R1 Durasovic	R2 Holt	1/4 Krueger	Total
Score	6-2 6-3	6-4 6-3	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	17	19	17	53
pts	53-40	62-46	62-37	177-123
Total points	93	108	99	300
Winners	27	24	27	78
%Winners	51%	39%	44%	44%
SERVE
Aces	8	10	8	26
Double Faults	0	1	0	1
1st in	33/52	30/55	34/56	97/163
% 1st in	63%	55%	61%	60%
1st pts	27/33	24/30	27/34	78/97
% 1st pts	82%	80%	79%	80%
2nd pts	11/19	15/25	15/22	41/66
% 2nd pts	58%	60%	68%	62%
Breaks
Won	3	3	3	9
Converted	3/7	3/4	3/3	9/14
Converted %	43%	75%	100%	64%
Conceded	3	2	3	8
Saved	3/3	1/2	3/3	7
Saved %	100%	50%	100%	42%
Times Broken	0	1	0	1

Tennis Scores in Champaign Challenger

• Titouan DroguetDroguet – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Ethan QuinnQuinn – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-6² 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Martin DammDamm (6-1 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Lucas Horve/Oliver OkonkwoHorve/Oliver Okonkwo – Hans Hach Verdugo/Luis David MartinezHach Verdugo/Luis David Martinez (5-7 7-5 10-8) – See score progression
• Alex Rybakov/Pedro Vives MarcosRybakov/Pedro Vives Marcos – Mats Rosenkranz/Tennyson WhitingRosenkranz/Tennyson Whiting (6-4 6-7⁵ 10-8) – See score progression
• John-Patrick Smith/Sem VerbeekSmith/Sem Verbeek – Ezekiel Clark/Evan ZhuClark/Evan Zhu (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Patrick KypsonKypson – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-6(2) 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ethan QuinnQuinn – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Patrick KypsonKypson – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Titouan DroguetDroguet – (0-0) – H2H and prediction