Luca Van Assche and Alex Marti Pujolras will play each other in the qualifications of the European Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Van Assche who should win in 2 sets.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.047
Alex Marti Pujolras -> 8.3
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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Alex Marti Pujolras
There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Alex Marti Pujolras since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Luca Van Assche
31 - 31win/loss
128
63
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-38 | 15-15 | 8-10 | 10-11 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 1-7 | 15-11 | 15-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-31 | 0-1 | 40-20 | 15-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 3-2 | 8-7 | 15-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 119, Luca reached the qualifications after defeating Jelle Sels 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Sels (6-2 6-4). During the match, Van Assche scored 63 points vs Sels’s 43. The French player was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Van Assche fired 3 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Luca Van Assche was extremely efficient on serve to win 84% (27/32) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Van Assche broke Sels 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Van Assche has a winning match record in the last 5 years having won 56% of his matches (152-118). 5-4 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Van Assche has an aggregate51-38 win-loss record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
The French player best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger,the Heilbronn Challenger and the Roanne Challenger.
Luca has an overall 30-31 win-loss record in 2024, 5-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Antwerp
Alex Marti Pujolras
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-27 | 0-0 | 51-26 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-32 | 0-0 | 43-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 0-1 | 44-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 51-28 | 0-1 | 51-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 378, Alex got to the qualifications after defeating Filip Cristian Jianu 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Marti Pujolras had a good straight sets win against Cristian Jianu (6-4 7-5). During the match Marti Pujolras scored 74 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 67. Marti Pujolras was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Marti Pujolras struck 6 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alex Marti Pujolras lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Marti Pujolras put 53% of his first serves in, winning 70% (28/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the 2nd serve. Alex broke Cristian Jianu 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Alex’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Badalona,M25 The Hague,M25+H Bacau and M25 Pitesti.
Alex has an aggregate 46-24 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Van Assche | Marti Pujolras |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 22 |
| Pts | 63-43 | 74-67 |
| Total Points | 106 | 141 |
| Winners | 27 | 28 |
| %Winners | 43% | 38% |
Both Van Assche and Marti Pujolras played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Van Assche and Marti Pujolras have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Van Assche played 4 games less than Marti Pujolras. Van Assche scored 27 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Marti Pujolras scored 28 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Van Assche | Marti Pujolras |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 32/45 | 40/76 |
| %1st in | 71% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 28/40 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 20/36 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 56% |
Van Assche managed to score 3 aces . Marti Pujolras fired 6 aces . Van Assche won 84% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Marti Pujolras won 70% 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 | Van Assche | Marti Pujolras |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/11 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 27% | 57% |
| Conceded | 0 | 8 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Luca broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. The French player had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Alex broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Alex conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Van Assche | |||
| Q1 Sels | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 63-43 | 63-43 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/45 | 32/45 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 27/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Marti Pujolras | |||
| Q1 Cristian Jianu | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 74-67 | 74-67 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 40/76 | 40/76 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 28/40 | 28/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/36 | 20/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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