Valentin Royer and Alexander Blockx will square off in the 1st round of the Nottingham Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 3:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Blockx who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Blockx is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Blockx -> 1.69
Valentin Royer -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Alexander Blockx
This will be the 2nd time that Valentin Royer and Alexander Blockx fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Blockx (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Blockx won 7-6(5) 6-3 in the quarter in M25 Sunderland back in 2023.
Valentin Royer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-17 | 2-1 | 21-9 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-20 | 24-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 8-4 | 30-15 | 13-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-17 | 1-2 | 13-8 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-15 | 4-4 | 4-3 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 250 (career-high), Royer will start his run in the Nottingham Challenger after he played his last match in the Koblenz Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 6-1 to Rodionov in the 2nd round on the 1st of February.
The French player has an aggregate 8-4 win-loss record in 2024, 6-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Valentin’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 1 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Royer has an overall 168-90 record. He has a positive 47-31 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Nottingham Challenger
Royer has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexander Blockx
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-12 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-15 | 4-3 | 11-7 | 24-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-7 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 350, Alexander will start his run in the Nottingham Challenger after he played his last match in the Koblenz Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-0 to Molleker in the 2nd round on the 31st of January.
Blockx has an aggregate 1-4 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Blockx has an overall 44-26 record. He has a positive 25-8 record on indoor hard courts.
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