Luca Van Assche and Geoffrey Blancaneaux will face off in the 1st round of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.36
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux
This will be the 6th time that Luca Van Assche and Geoffrey Blancaneaux clash against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Van Assche (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Van Assche won 6-4 7-5 in the 2nd round in the Lyon Challenger back in June 2025.
Luca Van Assche
18 - 13win/loss
192
63
LWLLLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-18 | 0-1 | 15-12 | 6-4 | 1-1 | 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. 186, Luca will start his run in the Sassuolo Challenger after he played his last match in the Lyon Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Merida Aguilar in the quarter on the 13th of June.
Luca has a composed 18-13 win-loss record in 2025, 12-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Luca’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Zagreb Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 175-138 record. He has a positive 89-58 record on clay.
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See his history.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
18 - 18win/loss
257
134
WLWWLLLLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-23 | 0-3 | 19-16 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-33 | 6-5 | 13-19 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-37 | 7-10 | 14-18 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-38 | 17-10 | 14-15 | 8-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-31 | 8-6 | 17-19 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 274, Geoffrey will start his run in the Sassuolo Challenger after he played his last match in the Lyon Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-5 to Van Assche in the 2nd round on the 11th of June.
Geoffrey has a composed 18-18 win-loss record in 2025, 16-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Brazzaville Challenger where he defeated Calvin Hemery in the final 6-3 6-4.
In terms of his career, The French player has an overall 321-271 record. He has a positive 165-136 record on clay.
Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger
Geoffrey has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (7-65 5-7 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rodrigo Pacheco MendezPacheco Mendez – Vilius GaubasGaubas (6-0 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel RinconRincon – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (7-5 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Michael GeertsGeerts (7-63 6-75 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (6-3 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Jozef KovalikKovalik (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Taro DanielDaniel (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Ryan NijboerNijboer (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Giovanni FonioFonio (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico BondioliBondioli – Sascha Gueymard WayenburgGueymard Wayenburg (6-4 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Dusan LajovicLajovic (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Elias YmerYmer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
