Valentin Royer and Ignacio Buse will square off in the 1st round of the Barcelona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Valentin Royer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Valentin Royer is the pick to win this match.
Valentin Royer -> 1.46
Ignacio Buse -> 2.59
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Prediction and head to head Valentin Royer vs. Ignacio Buse
There is no head to head record between Valentin Royer and Ignacio Buse since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Valentin Royer
13 - 7win/loss
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LWWWWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-12 | 2-1 | 18-5 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 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. 292, Valentin will start his run in the Barcelona Challenger after he won the title in M25 Santa Margherita Di Pula after beating 6-3 6-3 Serdarusic in the final.
Royer has an aggregate 13-7 win-loss record in 2024, 5-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The French player best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
The French player won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Royer has an overall 173-93 record. He has a positive 77-37 record on clay.
Previously in the Barcelona Challenger
Valentin has never competed in this tournament before.
Ignacio Buse
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-12 | 3-3 | 18-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-19 | 7-3 | 28-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-8 | 4-2 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 444, Buse reached the 1st round after defeating Felix Gill 6-3 3-6 6-2 and Pol Martin Tiffon 7-61 6-2.
In the qualifications, Buse had a good straight sets win against Martin Tiffon (7-61 6-2). During the match Buse scored 67 points vs Martin Tiffon’s 48. Ignacio was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Buse was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Ignacio Buse lost the serve 5 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Buse put 69% of his first serves in, winning 62% (23/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (6/17) on the 2nd serve. Buse broke Martin Tiffon 7 times after converting 88% of his break points (7/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ignacio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Buse’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Tarragona.
Ignacio has an aggregate 11-7 win-loss record in 2024, 8-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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