Luca Van Assche and Michael Vrbensky will square off in the 1^st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT SOPRA STERIA. In the following lines 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Luca Van Assche is the pick to win this match.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.19
Michael Vrbensky -> 4.25

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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Michael Vrbensky

There is no head to head record between Luca Van Assche and Michael Vrbensky since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Luca Van Assche

Ranked no. 184, Van Assche will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match in the Prostejov Challenger where he lost 6-1 7-5 to Hsin Tseng in the 2^nd round on the 4^th of June.

Luca has a compiled 16-12 win-loss record in 2025, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Van Assche’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Zagreb Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 173-137 record. He has a positive 87-57 record on clay.

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

Michael Vrbensky

Ranked no. 472, Vrbensky reached the 1^st round after beating Timothee Lustig 6-1 6-1 and Jakub Paul 6-3 6-2.

In the qualifications, Vrbensky had a good straight sets win against Paul (6-3 6-2). During the match Vrbensky scored 60 points vs Paul’s 40. Michael was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Vrbensky recorded 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Michael Vrbensky lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Vrbensky put 45% of his first serves in, winning 68% (17/25) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (14/30) on the 2nd serve. Michael broke Paul 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vrbensky started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 62% of the points he played.

The Czech’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Opatija.

Michael has an overall 13-15 win-loss record in 2025, 12-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.

Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger

• Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (6-4 2-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Titouan DroguetDroguet (7-6³ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Sumit NagalNagal (6-4 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gauthier OnclinOnclin – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Calvin HemeryHemery – Clement TaburTabur (1-1) – H2H and prediction
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• Maxime JanvierJanvier – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Michael GeertsGeerts – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Matteo MartineauMartineau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Henri SquireSquire (0-0) – H2H and prediction