Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Joris De Loore will face off in the semifinal of the Lille Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 3:30 pm on CENTER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pierre-Hugues Herbert who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pierre-Hugues Herbert is the pick to win this match.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 1.51
Joris De Loore -> 2.41
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Prediction and head to head Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Joris De Loore
This will be the 4th time that Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Joris De Loore square off. The head to head is 2-1 for De Loore (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Herbert won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Captif Challenger back in 2023.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-10 | 1-2 | 4-4 | 12-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 2-4 | 5-4 | 16-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 10-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-21 | 4-7 | 4-6 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 4-3 | 7-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 166, Pierre-Hugues reached the semifinal after defeating Arthur Bouquier 6-4 6-4, Tristan Lamasine 6-1 7-5 and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 7-63 7-64.
In the quarter, Herbert had a good straight sets win against Mpetshi Perricard (7-63 7-64). During the match, Herbert scored 88 points vs Mpetshi Perricard’s 77. Pierre-Hugues was pretty aggressive to blast 49 winners.
Regarding the service games, Herbert managed to score 8 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Pierre-Hugues Herbert was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 82% (49/60) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Pierre-Hugues hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Herbert has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (234-184). 10-2 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Herbert has a composed 103-64 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Quimper Challenger where he defeated Duje Ajdukovic in the final 6-3 6-2.
The French player has a compiled 11-4 win-loss record in 2024, 10-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lille Challenger
Pierre-Hugues has never competed in this tournament before.
Joris De Loore
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-10 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-25 | 5-3 | 10-8 | 27-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 14-4 | 22-10 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-8 | 0-1 | 5-6 | 10-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211, De Loore reached the semifinal after defeating Zizou Bergs 4-6 7-5 7-64, Titouan Droguet 7-63 7-62 and Radu Albot 6-3 4-6 7-62.
In the quarter, De Loore defeated Albot (6-3 4-6 7-62). During the match De Loore scored 105 points vs Albot’s 96. The Belgian was pretty aggressive to blast 54 winners.
Talking about serving, De Loore managed to score 15 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Joris De Loore lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, De Loore put 70% of his first serves in, winning 79% (54/68) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. De Loore broke Albot twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Joris has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
De Loore has an aggregate 5-6 win-loss record in 2024, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Herbert | De Loore |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 65 | 93 |
| Pts | 234-189 | 314-290 |
| Total Points | 423 | 604 |
| Winners | 105 | 151 |
| %Winners | 45% | 48% |
Both Herbert and De Loore played 3 matches. At the moment, Joris De Loore surrendered 2 sets while Pierre-Hugues Herbert hasn’t lost a set so far. Herbert has played 2 set(s) less than De Loore (6 vs 8). Therefore, Herbert played 28 games less than De Loore. Pierre-Hugues scored 105 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Belgian recorded 151 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Herbert | De Loore |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 21 | 39 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 13 |
| 1st in | 135/201 | 203/287 |
| %1st in | 67% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 105/135 | 151/203 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 40/66 | 44/84 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 52% |
Herbert bagged 21 aces (7 per match). De Loore fired 39 aces (13 per match). Herbert won 78% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, De Loore won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Herbert | De Loore |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/14 | 6/20 |
| % Converted | 43% | 30% |
| Conceded | 6 | 20 |
| Saved | 5 | 14 |
| % Saved | 83% | 70% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 6 |
Pierre-Hugues broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Herbert lost his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. De Loore broke his opponents 6 times with a 30% conversion rate. Joris conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.
| Herbert | |||||
| R1 Bouquier |
R2 Lamasine |
1/4 Mpetshi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 6-1 7-5 | 7-63 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 19 | 26 | 65 | |
| pts | 74-60 | 72-52 | 88-77 | 234-189 | |
| Total points | 134 | 124 | 165 | 423 | |
| Winners | 30 | 26 | 49 | 105 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 36% | 56% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 10 | 3 | 8 | 21 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 40/61 | 35/61 | 60/79 | 135/201 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 57% | 76% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 30/40 | 26/35 | 49/60 | 105/135 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 74% | 82% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 15/26 | 12/19 | 40/66 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 58% | 63% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 4/7 | 0/2 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 57% | 0% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 0/1 | 2/2 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | 100% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| De Loore | |||||
| R1 Bergs |
R2 Droguet |
1/4 Albot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 7-5 7-64 | 7-63 7-62 | 6-3 4-6 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 26 | 32 | 93 | |
| pts | 120-119 | 89-75 | 105-96 | 314-290 | |
| Total points | 239 | 164 | 201 | 604 | |
| Winners | 59 | 38 | 54 | 151 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 43% | 51% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 19 | 5 | 15 | 39 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 88/112 | 47/78 | 68/97 | 203/287 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 60% | 70% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 59/88 | 38/47 | 54/68 | 151/203 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 81% | 79% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 18/31 | 13/29 | 44/84 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 58% | 45% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 1/1 | 2/7 | 6/20 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 100% | 29% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 5 | 3 | 20 | |
| Saved | 9/12 | 4/5 | 1/3 | 14 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 80% | 33% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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