Luca Van Assche and Timofey Skatov will play each other in the qualifications of the French Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on Court SUZANNE-LENGLEN. 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 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 -> 1.53
Timofey Skatov -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Timofey Skatov
There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Timofey Skatov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Luca Van Assche
14 - 10win/loss
186
63
LWWLWWLWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-14 | 0-1 | 14-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 179, Luca got to the qualifications after defeating Adrian Mannarino 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, Van Assche had a good straight sets win against Mannarino (6-3 7-5). During the match, Van Assche scored 69 points vs Mannarino’s 60. Van Assche was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Van Assche scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Luca Van Assche lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Van Assche put 70% of his first serves in, winning 68% (30/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Luca broke Mannarino 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Van Assche has a winning match record in the last 6 years having won 56% of his matches (171-135). 8-5 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Van Assche has a composed85-55 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
The French player best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Zagreb Challenger.
Van Assche has a compiled 14-10 win-loss record in 2025, 8-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the French Open
Timofey Skatov
15 - 13win/loss
215
123
LWLLWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-17 | 6-7 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-23 | 5-7 | 29-14 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 6-4 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-32 | 4-3 | 30-27 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 0-2 | 33-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 191, Skatov reached the qualifications after defeating Alibek Kachmazov 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Kachmazov (6-3 6-4). During the match Skatov scored 65 points vs Kachmazov’s 55. Timofey was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Skatov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Timofey Skatov lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Skatov put 63% of his first serves in, winning 64% (23/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the 2nd serve. Skatov broke Kachmazov 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Timofey has a compiled 15-13 win-loss record in 2025, 9-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the French Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Van Assche | Skatov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 19 |
| Pts | 69-60 | 65-55 |
| Total Points | 129 | 120 |
| Winners | 30 | 23 |
| %Winners | 43% | 35% |
Both Van Assche and Skatov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Van Assche and Skatov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Van Assche played 2 games more than Skatov. The French player scored 30 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Timofey bagged 23 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Van Assche | Skatov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 44/63 | 36/57 |
| %1st in | 70% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 30/44 | 23/36 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 57% |
Van Assche managed to score 1 ace . Skatov also struck 1 ace . Van Assche won 68% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Skatov won 64% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Van Assche | Skatov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 56% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 7 |
| Saved | 4 | 5 |
| % Saved | 67% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The French player broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The French player lost his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Skatov conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Van Assche | |||
| Q1 Mannarino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 69-60 | 69-60 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 44/63 | 44/63 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 8/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Skatov | |||
| Q1 Kachmazov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 65-55 | 65-55 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/57 | 36/57 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 23/36 | 23/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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