Otto Virtanen and Luca Van Assche will face off in the quarter of the Brest Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Luca Van Assche who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Luca Van Assche is the pick to win this match.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.75
Otto Virtanen -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Otto Virtanen vs. Luca Van Assche
This will be the 3rd time that Otto Virtanen and Luca Van Assche square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Virtanen won 6-3 7-6(3) in the 1st round in the Banja Luka Challenger back in 2022.
Otto Virtanen
38 - 26win/loss
91
91
LWWLWWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-28 | 9-11 | 5-7 | 24-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 114, Virtanen reached the quarter after defeating Arthur Gea 3-6 7-5 6-3 and Matteo Martineau 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Otto had a good straight sets win against Martineau (6-3 6-2). During the match, Virtanen scored 69 points vs Martineau’s 50. Otto was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Virtanen made 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Otto Virtanen was very effective on serve to win 77% (33/43) of his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Finn broke Martineau 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Otto has lost 1 set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.
Virtanen has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (200-134). 19-5 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Virtanen has an aggregate114-46 match record in the last 8 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Pau Challenger where he beat Leandro Riedi in the final 7-5 7-5 and the Lugano Challenger where he beat Daniel Masur in the final 6-7(4) 6-4 7-6(3).
Virtanen has an overall 38-26 win-loss record in 2024, 19-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
Luca Van Assche
33 - 32win/loss
128
63
LLLLWWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-36 | 15-15 | 8-10 | 8-9 | 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. 117, the French player reached the quarter after beating Emilio Nava 6-3 7-5 and Damir Dzumhur 7-5 7-5.
In the 2nd round, Van had a good straight sets win against Dzumhur (7-5 7-5). During the match Van scored 80 points vs Dzumhur’s 68. Luca was pretty aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Van managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Luca Van Assche was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (33/41) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The French player broke Dzumhur 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Van hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Van’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger,the Heilbronn Challenger and the Roanne Challenger.
The French player has a compiled 33-32 win-loss record in 2024, 8-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Virtanen | Van |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 47 | 45 |
| Pts | 167-144 | 152-128 |
| Total Points | 311 | 280 |
| Winners | 68 | 74 |
| %Winners | 41% | 49% |
Both Virtanen and Van played 2 matches. At the moment, Otto Virtanen dropped 1 set while Luca Van Assche hasn’t conceded a set so far. Virtanen has played 1 set more than Van (5 vs 4). Therefore, Virtanen played 2 games more than Van. Virtanen scored 68 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Van managed to score 74 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Virtanen | Van |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 7.5 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 94/165 | 94/129 |
| %1st in | 57% | 73% |
| 1st pts | 68/94 | 74/94 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 35/71 | 18/35 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 51% |
Virtanen made 15 aces (7.5 per match). Van fired 5 aces (2.5 per match). Virtanen won 72% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Van won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Virtanen | Van |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 7 |
| Converted | 9/19 | 7/13 |
| % Converted | 47% | 54% |
| Conceded | 15 | 4 |
| Saved | 10 | 2 |
| % Saved | 67% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 2 |
The Finn broke his opponents 9 times with a 47% conversion rate. Otto dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Van broke his opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Luca conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Virtanen | ||||
| R1 Gea |
R2 Martineau |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 7-5 6-3 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 17 | 47 | |
| pts | 98-94 | 69-50 | 167-144 | |
| Total points | 192 | 119 | 311 | |
| Winners | 35 | 33 | 68 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 48% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 10 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 51/100 | 43/65 | 94/165 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 66% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 35/51 | 33/43 | 68/94 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 77% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/49 | 12/22 | 35/71 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 55% | 49% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 3/9 | 9/19 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 33% | 47% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 6 | 15 | |
| Saved | 4/9 | 6/6 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 44% | 100% | 72% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Van | ||||
| R1 Nava |
R2 Dzumhur |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 24 | 45 | |
| pts | 72-60 | 80-68 | 152-128 | |
| Total points | 132 | 148 | 280 | |
| Winners | 41 | 33 | 74 | |
| %Winners | 57% | 41% | 49% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 53/67 | 41/62 | 94/129 | |
| % 1st in | 79% | 66% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 41/53 | 33/41 | 74/94 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 80% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 12/21 | 18/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 57% | 51% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/9 | 7/13 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 44% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 33% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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