Michael Geerts and Liam Gavrielides will play each other in the qualifications of the Braunschweig Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 11. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Geerts who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Michael Geerts is the pick to win this match.
Michael Geerts -> 1.69
Liam Gavrielides -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Liam Gavrielides
This will be the 2nd time that Michael Geerts and Liam Gavrielides clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Geerts (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Geerts won 7-6(7) 3-6 6-4 in the qualifications in the Koblenz Challenger back in January 2024.
Michael Geerts
25 - 22win/loss
337
212
LWWLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-32 | 17-10 | 10-12 | 12-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 313, Michael reached the qualifications after defeating Constantin Bittoun Kouzmine 6-4 6-4 and Liam Gavrielides .
In the qualifications, Geerts had a good straight sets win against Bittoun Kouzmine (6-4 6-4). During the match, Geerts scored 65 points vs Bittoun Kouzmine’s 56. Geerts was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Geerts struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Michael Geerts was very efficient on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Michael broke Bittoun Kouzmine 3 times after converting 25% of his break points (3/12).
Geerts has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (302-230). 9-11 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Geerts has a compiled 110-94 record in the last years on clay.
Geerts’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Martos.
The Belgian has an aggregate 24-22 win-loss record in 2024, 9-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Braunschweig Challenger
Liam Gavrielides
28 - 23win/loss
550
550
LLWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-29 | 6-6 | 26-17 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-27 | 6-3 | 29-21 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 7-13 | 0-0 | 5-9 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 622, Liam reached the qualifications after beating Hazem Naow 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Liam had a good straight sets win against Naow (6-1 6-4). During the match Gavrielides scored 60 points vs Naow’s 41. The German was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Gavrielides made 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Liam Gavrielides was very efficient on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Liam broke Naow 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
The German’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Villena and M15 Antalya.
Gavrielides has a compiled 28-22 win-loss record in 2024, 20-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Braunschweig Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Geerts | Gavrielides |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 17 |
| Pts | 65-56 | 60-41 |
| Total Points | 121 | 101 |
| Winners | 24 | 25 |
| %Winners | 37% | 42% |
Both Geerts and Gavrielides played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Geerts and Gavrielides have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Geerts played 3 games more than Gavrielides. The Belgian scored 24 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Gavrielides struck 25 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Geerts | Gavrielides |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 8 |
| 1st in | 30/51 | 35/53 |
| %1st in | 59% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 25/35 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 10/18 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 56% |
Geerts blasted 4 aces . Gavrielides managed to score 8 aces . Geerts won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Gavrielides won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Geerts | Gavrielides |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/12 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 25% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Geerts broke his opponent 3 times with a 25% conversion rate. Michael lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Liam broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The German conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Geerts | |||
| Q1 Bittoun |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 65-56 | 65-56 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/51 | 30/51 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 24/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 3/12 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gavrielides | |||
| Q1 Naow |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 60-41 | 60-41 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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