Hubert Hurkacz and Ugo Humbert will clash against each other in the quarter of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 9:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hubert Hurkacz who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Hubert Hurkacz is the pick to win this match.
Hubert Hurkacz -> 1.56
Ugo Humbert -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Hubert Hurkacz vs. Ugo Humbert
This will be the 5th time that Hubert Hurkacz and Ugo Humbert clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Hurkacz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Humbert won 6-4 6-4 in the semifinal in Marseille back in February 2024.
Highlights Ugo Humbert vs Hubert Hurkacz – Marseille 10-February-2024
Hubert Hurkacz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-11 | 4-5 | 7-4 | 3-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 40-19 | 17-10 | 14-4 | 4-3 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-24 | 23-11 | 5-5 | 13-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-21 | 18-9 | 9-4 | 9-6 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-23 | 22-9 | 1-4 | 8-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 8 (career-high), Hubert reached the quarter after beating Jan-Lennard Struff 7-65 6-74 7-66 and Christopher O Connell 7-65 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Hubert had a good straight sets win against O Connell (7-65 6-4). During the match, Hurkacz scored 71 points vs O Connell’s 61. Hurkacz was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Hurkacz struck 11 aces and he was extremely consistent in conceding no double faults. Hubert Hurkacz was very effective on serve to win 89% (32/36) of his 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Hurkacz broke O Connell once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Hubert has dropped 1 set in this tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Hurkacz has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (363-217). 9-3 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Hurkacz has a compiled 176-82 match record in the last years on hard.
Hubert’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Australia.
Hubert has a compiled 13-5 win-loss record in 2024, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Ugo Humbert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-20 | 8-9 | 2-5 | 11-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 39-24 | 18-9 | 5-7 | 11-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-26 | 17-11 | 13-5 | 16-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 16-11 | 3-7 | 11-6 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-20 | 6-7 | 1-6 | 4-5 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 18 (career-high), the French player reached the quarter after beating Gael Monfils 4-6 6-3 6-3 and Andy Murray 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Humbert had a good straight sets win against Murray (6-2 6-4). During the match Humbert scored 65 points vs Murray’s 45. Ugo was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Humbert scored 4 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ugo Humbert was quite efficient on serve to win 83% (24/29) of his 1st serve and 86% (12/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Humbert broke Murray 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ugo has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
His best result of the current year was winning the title in Marseille where he defeated Grigor Dimitrov in the final 6-4 6-3.
The French player has an overall 10-3 win-loss record in 2024, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Ugo has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Hurkacz | Humbert |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 62 | 46 |
| Pts | 196-191 | 158-123 |
| Total Points | 387 | 281 |
| Winners | 105 | 66 |
| %Winners | 54% | 42% |
Both Hurkacz and Humbert played 2 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Hubert Hurkacz conceded 1 set, while Ugo Humbert lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Hurkacz and Humbert have played the same amount of sets 5. However, Hurkacz played 16 games more than Humbert. Hurkacz scored 105 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, Humbert managed to score 66 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Hurkacz | Humbert |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 35 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 17.5 | 4.5 |
| 1st in | 129/200 | 87/128 |
| %1st in | 65% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 105/129 | 66/87 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 43/71 | 31/41 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 76% |
Hurkacz struck 35 aces (17.5 per match). Humbert fired 9 aces (4.5 per match). Hurkacz won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Humbert won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 76% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Hurkacz | Humbert |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 6 |
| Converted | 1/5 | 6/14 |
| % Converted | 20% | 43% |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 |
| Saved | 6 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Hurkacz broke his opponents once with a 20% conversion rate. Hubert pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 6 break points. Ugo broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Ugo conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Hurkacz | ||||
| R1 Struff |
R2 O |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-74 7-66 | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 39 | 23 | 62 | |
| pts | 125-130 | 71-61 | 196-191 | |
| Total points | 255 | 132 | 387 | |
| Winners | 73 | 32 | 105 | |
| %Winners | 58% | 45% | 54% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 24 | 11 | 35 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 93/137 | 36/63 | 129/200 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 57% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 73/93 | 32/36 | 105/129 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 89% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/44 | 18/27 | 43/71 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 67% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 0/3 | 1/2 | 1/5 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 50% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 0/0 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Humbert | ||||
| R1 Monfils |
R2 Murray |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-3 6-3 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 18 | 46 | |
| pts | 93-78 | 65-45 | 158-123 | |
| Total points | 171 | 110 | 281 | |
| Winners | 42 | 24 | 66 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 37% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 58/85 | 29/43 | 87/128 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 67% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 42/58 | 24/29 | 66/87 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 83% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/27 | 12/14 | 31/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 86% | 76% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 0/0 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | – | 38% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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