Alexander Ritschard and Nikoloz Basilashvili will square off in the 1st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 12. 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 Alexander Ritschard who should win in 2 sets.
Alexander Ritschard -> 1.41
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 2.76
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Ritschard vs. Nikoloz Basilashvili
There is no head to head record between Alexander Ritschard and Nikoloz Basilashvili since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alexander Ritschard
28 - 13win/loss
175
152
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-14 | 7-3 | 16-6 | 5-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-13 | 11-5 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 152 (career-high), Ritschard will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match in the Heilbronn Challenger where he lost 6-1 6-7(5) 6-3 to Nagal in the final on the 9th of June.
Alexander has an overall 28-12 win-loss record in 2024, 16-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Savannah Challenger where he beat Andres Andrade in the final 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Alexander has an overall 315-208 record. He has a positive 172-94 record on clay.
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history.
Nikoloz Basilashvili
28 - 17win/loss
446
16
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-20 | 5-5 | 19-11 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 4-19 | 1-8 | 0-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-31 | 3-11 | 5-9 | 4-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-27 | 18-11 | 8-8 | 3-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-14 | 4-6 | 0-4 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 504, the Georgean reached the 1st round after defeating Gastao Elias 6-3 3-6 6-1 and Carlos Taberner 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Georgean had a good straight sets win against Taberner (6-3 6-4). During the match Basilashvili scored 62 points vs Taberner’s 49. The Georgean was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Basilashvili scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Nikoloz Basilashvili was quite effective on serve to win 81% (30/37) of his 1st serve and 52% (11/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Basilashvili broke Taberner 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nikoloz started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Nikoloz’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Murcia Challenger.
Nikoloz has a composed 27-17 win-loss record in 2024, 16-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Basilashvili has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger
- Hugo GastonGaston – Daniel RinconRincon (6-0 7-69) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Clement TaburTabur – Gauthier OnclinOnclin (6-2 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Mae MaligeMalige (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Manuel GuinardGuinard (4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Alexander RitschardRitschard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David Jorda SanchisJorda Sanchis – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Quentin HalysHalys (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Calvin HemeryHemery – Mathias BourgueBourgue (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Tristan BoyerBoyer (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PoullainPoullain – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Carlos TabernerTaberner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Clement TaburTabur (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – (0-0) – H2H and prediction