Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Antoine Escoffier will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Lugano Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:00 pm on CENTRALE. 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 Pierre-Hugues Herbert who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pierre-Hugues Herbert is the pick to win this match.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 1.4
Antoine Escoffier -> 2.8
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Prediction and head to head Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Antoine Escoffier
This will be the 2nd time that Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Antoine Escoffier play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Herbert (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Herbert won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in France F19.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-31 | 3-5 | 8-11 | 19-12 | 3-3 | 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. 158, Pierre-Hugues reached the 2nd round after beating Yuta Shimizu 6-3 4-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, Herbert defeated Shimizu (6-3 4-6 6-1). During the match, Herbert scored 87 points vs Shimizu’s 69. Herbert was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Herbert managed to score 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Pierre-Hugues Herbert was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (31/41) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Herbert broke Shimizu 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Herbert has good match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (235-185). 11-3 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Herbert has a composed 104-65 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Quimper Challenger where he overcame Duje Ajdukovic in the final 6-3 6-2.
The French player has a compiled 12-5 win-loss record in 2024, 11-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Antoine Escoffier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-32 | 32-15 | 0-1 | 11-15 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-30 | 21-14 | 1-2 | 17-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-33 | 12-12 | 0-2 | 31-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 56-26 | 19-8 | 11-8 | 26-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-6 | 8-1 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 201, Antoine got to the 2nd round after beating Bu Yunchaokete 6-4 6-0.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Yunchaokete (6-4 6-0). During the match Escoffier scored 52 points vs Yunchaokete’s 28. Escoffier was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Escoffier fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Antoine Escoffier was very efficient on serve to win 91% (20/22) of his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Antoine broke Yunchaokete 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Antoine has a compiled 4-8 win-loss record in 2024, 4-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lugano Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Herbert | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 16 |
| Pts | 87-69 | 52-28 |
| Total Points | 156 | 80 |
| Winners | 31 | 20 |
| %Winners | 36% | 38% |
Both Herbert and Escoffier played 1 match. At the moment, Pierre-Hugues Herbert lost 1 set while Antoine Escoffier hasn’t conceded a set so far. Herbert has played 1 set more than Escoffier (3 vs 2). Therefore, Herbert played 10 games more than Escoffier. Herbert scored 31 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Antoine struck 20 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Herbert | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 6 |
| 1st in | 41/68 | 22/37 |
| %1st in | 60% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 31/41 | 20/22 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 17/27 | 12/15 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 80% |
Herbert scored 11 aces . Escoffier struck 6 aces . Herbert won 76% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Escoffier won 91% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 80% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Herbert | Escoffier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Pierre-Hugues broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Antoine broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Escoffier was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Herbert | |||
| R1 Shimizu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 87-69 | 87-69 | |
| Total points | 156 | 156 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 41/68 | 41/68 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 31/41 | 31/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/27 | 17/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Escoffier | |||
| R1 Yunchaokete |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 52-28 | 52-28 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 22/37 | 22/37 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 20/22 | 20/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/15 | 12/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 80% | 80% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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