Luca Van Assche and Benjamin Bonzi will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Roanne Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 4:30 pm on CENTRAL A. VACHERESSE. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Benjamin Bonzi who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Benjamin Bonzi is the pick to win this match.
Benjamin Bonzi -> 1.86
Luca Van Assche -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Benjamin Bonzi

This will be the 4^th time that Luca Van Assche and Benjamin Bonzi square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Bonzi (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Van Assche won 0-6 7-5 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Cary Challenger back in August 2024.

Luca Van Assche

Ranked no. 121, the French player reached the semifinal after defeating Titouan Droguet 7-6(4) 6-3, Jurij Rodionov 6-2 6-1 and Cameron Norrie 1-6 7-5 6-3.

In the quarter against Norrie, The French player recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 7-5 6-3). During the match, Van Assche scored 96 points vs Norrie’s 91. Van Assche was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.

Regarding the service games, Van Assche blasted 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Luca Van Assche was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (41/57) of his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The French player broke Norrie 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The French player has surrendered 1 set in this competition to win 53% of the points he played.

Van Assche has a winning win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 56% of his matches (151-117). 4-3 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Van Assche has a composed50-37 record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.

Luca’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger and the Heilbronn Challenger.

Van Assche has a composed 29-30 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Roanne Challenger

Benjamin Bonzi

Ranked no. 176, Bonzi reached the semifinal after defeating Jakub Nicod 6-2 7-6(4)

, Clement Chidekh 6-4 6-4 and Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-7(11) 6-4 6-4.

In the quarter against Herbert, Bonzi recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7¹¹ 6-4 6-4). During the match Bonzi scored 113 points vs Herbert’s 106. Benjamin was very aggressive to blast 52 winners.

Talking about serving, Bonzi blasted 10 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Benjamin Bonzi was very effective on serve to win 75% (52/69) of his 1st serve and 63% (26/41) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Benjamin broke Herbert 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The French player has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was conquering the title the Winnipeg Challenger where he overcame Sho Shimabukuro in the final 5-7 6-1 6-4.

Bonzi has a composed 32-31 win-loss record in 2024, 6-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Van Assche	Bonzi
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	7	7
Tot Games	65	74
Pts	224-196	251-221
Total Points	420	472
Winners	95	112
%Winners	42%	45%

Both Van Assche and Bonzi played 3 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Luca Van Assche lost 1 set, while Benjamin Bonzi surrendered 1 set. Talking about their workload, Van Assche and Bonzi have played the same amount of sets 7. However, Van Assche played 9 games less than Bonzi. Luca scored 95 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Benjamin recorded 112 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Van Assche	Bonzi
Aces	11	29
Avg per match	3.7	9.7
1st in	140/206	148/231
%1st in	68%	64%
1st pts	95/140	112/148
%1st pts	68%	76%
2nd pts	42/66	51/83
%2nd pts	64%	61%

Van Assche blasted 11 aces (3.7 per match). Bonzi recorded 29 aces (9.7 per match). Van Assche won 68% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Bonzi won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Van Assche	Bonzi
Won	10	9
Converted	10/29	9/19
% Converted	34%	47%
Conceded	15	7
Saved	10	4
% Saved	67%	57%
Times Broken	5	3

Luca broke his opponents 10 times with a 34% conversion rate. Van Assche lost his serve 5 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Benjamin broke his opponents 9 times with a 47% conversion rate. Bonzi conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.

Van Assche
	R1 Droguet	R2 Rodionov	1/4 Norrie	Total
Score	7-64 6-3	6-2 6-1	1-6 7-5 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	3	7
Tot Games	22	15	28	65
pts	72-70	56-35	96-91	224-196
Total points	142	91	187	420
Winners	35	19	41	95
%Winners	49%	34%	43%	42%
SERVE
Aces	5	2	4	11
Double Faults	0	0	5	5
1st in	57/81	26/41	57/84	140/206
% 1st in	70%	63%	68%	68%
1st pts	35/57	19/26	41/57	95/140
% 1st pts	61%	73%	72%	68%
2nd pts	19/24	9/15	14/27	42/66
% 2nd pts	79%	60%	52%	64%
Breaks
Won	2	5	3	10
Converted	2/7	5/13	3/9	10/29
Converted %	29%	38%	33%	34%
Conceded	4	1	10	15
Saved	3/4	0/1	7/10	10
Saved %	75%	0%	70%	48%
Times Broken	1	1	3	5

Bonzi
	R1 Nicod	R2 Chidekh	1/4 Herbert	Total
Score	6-2 7-64	6-4 6-4	6-711 6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	3	7
Tot Games	21	20	33	74
pts	72-55	66-60	113-106	251-221
Total points	127	126	219	472
Winners	33	27	52	112
%Winners	46%	41%	46%	45%
SERVE
Aces	10	9	10	29
Double Faults	1	1	0	2
1st in	41/54	38/67	69/110	148/231
% 1st in	76%	57%	63%	64%
1st pts	33/41	27/38	52/69	112/148
% 1st pts	80%	71%	75%	76%
2nd pts	10/13	15/29	26/41	51/83
% 2nd pts	77%	52%	63%	61%
Breaks
Won	2	4	3	9
Converted	2/5	4/8	3/6	9/19
Converted %	40%	50%	50%	47%
Conceded	0	6	1	7
Saved	0/0	4/6	0/1	4
Saved %	–	67%	0%	22%
Times Broken	0	2	1	3

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