Arthur Fils and Marc-Andrea Huesler will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arthur Fils who should win in 2 sets.
Arthur Fils -> 1.43
Marc-Andrea Huesler -> 2.84
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Prediction and head to head Arthur Fils vs. Marc-Andrea Huesler
There is no head to head record between Arthur Fils and Marc-Andrea Huesler since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Arthur Fils
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-11 | 10-6 | 10-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-28 | 15-9 | 14-10 | 7-6 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-24 | 5-4 | 13-8 | 21-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-28 | 0-1 | 23-15 | 20-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-26 | 3-2 | 29-17 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 36 (career-high), the French player got to the 2nd round after defeating Borna Gojo 6-3 4-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, Arthur defeated Gojo (6-3 4-6 6-1). During the match, Fils scored 84 points vs Gojo’s 71. Arthur was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fils scored 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Arthur Fils was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (38/48) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Arthur broke Gojo 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Fils has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (121-80). 1-0 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Fils has a compiled9-7 match record in the last 5 years on hard.
The French player has an aggregate 1-0 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Hong Kong
Fils has never competed in this tournament before.
Marc-Andrea Huesler
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-27 | 14-11 | 5-6 | 5-6 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 41-28 | 11-6 | 16-10 | 10-9 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-31 | 7-9 | 2-10 | 5-8 | 4-3 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 45-28 | 9-8 | 18-6 | 11-10 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-33 | 3-6 | 14-15 | 9-7 | 1-3 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 194, the Swiss got to the 2nd round after beating Sho Shimabukuro 6-2 6-4, Otto Virtanen 6-2 6-0 and Vitaliy Sachko 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Huesler had a good straight sets win against Sachko (6-4 6-4). During the match Huesler scored 60 points vs Sachko’s 55. Marc-Andrea was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Huesler struck 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marc-Andrea Huesler was exceptionally effective on serve to win 72% (28/39) 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. Marc-Andrea broke Sachko twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
The Swiss has an overall 3-0 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fils | Huesler |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 52 |
| Pts | 84-71 | 181-130 |
| Total Points | 155 | 311 |
| Winners | 38 | 78 |
| %Winners | 45% | 43% |
Fils played 1 match while Huesler competed in 3 matches. Huesler started his run from the qualifications while Fils had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Arthur Fils conceded 1 set while Marc-Andrea Huesler hasn’t conceded a set so far. Fils has played 3 set(s) less than Huesler (3 vs 6). Therefore, Fils played 26 games less than Huesler. Fils scored 38 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Marc-Andrea bagged 78 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fils | Huesler |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 24 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 8 |
| 1st in | 48/79 | 100/147 |
| %1st in | 61% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 38/48 | 78/100 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 33/47 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 70% |
Fils struck 2 aces . Huesler made 24 aces (8 per match). Fils won 79% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Huesler won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fils | Huesler |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 10 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 10/19 |
| % Converted | 67% | 53% |
| Conceded | 8 | 5 |
| Saved | 7 | 5 |
| % Saved | 88% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Arthur broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Fils lost his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. The Swiss broke his opponents 10 times with a 53% conversion rate. Marc-Andrea was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Fils | |||
| R1 Gojo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 84-71 | 84-71 | |
| Total points | 155 | 155 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 48/79 | 48/79 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 38/48 | 38/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 16/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 7/8 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 88% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Huesler | |||||
| Q1 Shimabukuro | Q3 Virtanen | R1 Sachko | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-2 6-0 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 14 | 20 | 52 | |
| pts | 66-50 | 55-25 | 60-55 | 181-130 | |
| Total points | 116 | 80 | 115 | 311 | |
| Winners | 28 | 22 | 28 | 78 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 40% | 47% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 6 | 8 | 10 | 24 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/56 | 22/30 | 39/61 | 100/147 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 73% | 64% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 22/22 | 28/39 | 78/100 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 100% | 72% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 6/8 | 15/22 | 33/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 75% | 68% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 5/9 | 2/3 | 10/19 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 56% | 67% | 53% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/0 | 4/4 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 100% | 200% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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