Alex Michelsen and Bu Yunchaokete will face off in the quarter of the Moselle Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 8:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. 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 Alex Michelsen who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Michelsen is the pick to win this match.
Alex Michelsen -> 1.57
Bu Yunchaokete -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Alex Michelsen vs. Bu Yunchaokete

This will be the 2^nd time that Alex Michelsen and Bu Yunchaokete clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Michelsen (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Michelsen won 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in Shanghai back in October 2024.

Alex Michelsen

Ranked no. 44, Alex reached the quarter after beating Harold Mayot 6-3 6-1 and Richard Gasquet 6-7(4) 7-6(3) 7-6(8).

In the 2^nd round against Gasquet, Michelsen recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7⁴ 7-6³ 7-6⁸). During the match, Michelsen scored 127 points vs Gasquet’s 122. Michelsen was quite aggressive to blast 71 winners.

Regarding the service games, Michelsen fired 13 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Alex Michelsen was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (71/98) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alex broke Gasquet once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American has lost 1 set in this event to win 53% of the points he played.

Michelsen has a solid record in the last 3 years having won 64% of his matches (125-69). 4-3 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Michelsen has a composed32-11 match record in the last 3 years on indoor hard courts.

Alex’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Newport and Salem.

Michelsen has an aggregate 41-32 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Metz

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Bu Yunchaokete

Ranked no. 72, Yunchaokete reached the quarter after beating Adrian Mannarino 7-6(4) 6-4 and Jesper De Jong 6-4 7-6(1).

In the 2^nd round, Yunchaokete had a good straight sets win against De Jong (6-4 7-6¹

). During the match Yunchaokete scored 74 points vs De Jong’s 61. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Yunchaokete made 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Bu Yunchaokete was pretty efficient on serve to win 78% (31/40) of his 1st serve and 81% (17/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Chinese broke De Jong once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Bu hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Wuxi Challenger where he beat Egor Gerasimov in the final 6-4 6-1 and the Granby Challenger where he defeated Terence Atmane in the final 6-3 6-7(7) 6-4.

The Chinese has an overall 50-25 win-loss record in 2024, 6-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Michelsen	Yunchaokete
Match played	2	2
Tot Set	5	4
Tot Games	55	46
Pts	194-172	143-121
Total Points	366	264
Winners	106	63
%Winners	55%	44%

Both Michelsen and Yunchaokete played 2 matches. At the moment, Alex Michelsen conceded 1 set while Bu Yunchaokete hasn’t lost a set so far. Michelsen has played 1 set more than Yunchaokete (5 vs 4). Therefore, Michelsen played 9 games more than Yunchaokete. Michelsen scored 106 winners (55% of the total points). On the other side, Bu scored 63 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Michelsen	Yunchaokete
Aces	20	15
Avg per match	10	7.5
1st in	145/192	83/127
%1st in	76%	65%
1st pts	106/145	63/83
%1st pts	73%	76%
2nd pts	23/47	34/44
%2nd pts	49%	77%

Michelsen blasted 20 aces (10 per match). Yunchaokete managed to score 15 aces (7.5 per match). Michelsen won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Yunchaokete won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 77% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Michelsen	Yunchaokete
Won	5	2
Converted	5/11	2/7
% Converted	45%	29%
Conceded	12	3
Saved	11	3
% Saved	92%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

The American broke his opponents 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Michelsen dropped his serve once and he saved 92% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponents twice with a 29% conversion rate. Bu was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Michelsen
	R1 Mayot	R2 Gasquet	Total
Score	6-3 6-1	6-74 7-63 7-68
Tot Set	2	3	5
Tot Games	16	39	55
pts	67-50	127-122	194-172
Total points	117	249	366
Winners	35	71	106
%Winners	52%	56%	55%
SERVE
Aces	7	13	20
Double Faults	2	2	4
1st in	47/68	98/124	145/192
% 1st in	69%	79%	76%
1st pts	35/47	71/98	106/145
% 1st pts	74%	72%	73%
2nd pts	9/21	14/26	23/47
% 2nd pts	43%	54%	49%
Breaks
Won	4	1	5
Converted	4/5	1/6	5/11
Converted %	80%	17%	45%
Conceded	9	3	12
Saved	9/9	2/3	11
Saved %	100%	67%	84%
Times Broken	0	1	1

Yunchaokete
	R1 Mannarino	R2 De	Total
Score	7-64 6-4	6-4 7-61
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	23	23	46
pts	69-60	74-61	143-121
Total points	129	135	264
Winners	32	31	63
%Winners	46%	42%	44%
SERVE
Aces	8	7	15
Double Faults	0	1	1
1st in	43/66	40/61	83/127
% 1st in	65%	66%	65%
1st pts	32/43	31/40	63/83
% 1st pts	74%	78%	76%
2nd pts	17/23	17/21	34/44
% 2nd pts	74%	81%	77%
Breaks
Won	1	1	2
Converted	1/1	1/6	2/7
Converted %	100%	17%	29%
Conceded	3	0	3
Saved	3/3	0/0	3
Saved %	100%	–	50%
Times Broken	0	0	0

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