Alexander Blockx and Yu Hsiou Hsu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Granby Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Blockx who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Blockx is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Blockx -> 1.39
Yu Hsiou Hsu -> 2.81
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Blockx vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Blockx and Yu Hsiou Hsu face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Blockx (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Blockx won 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in the Seoul Challenger back in 2024.
Alexander Blockx
25 - 17win/loss
121
121
LWLWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-20 | 11-7 | 4-4 | 9-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-24 | 7-11 | 7-3 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-15 | 4-3 | 11-7 | 24-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-7 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128 (career-high), the Belgian got to the 2nd round after defeating Andres Martin 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Belgian had a good straight sets win against Martin (7-5 6-2). During the match, Blockx scored 65 points vs Martin’s 50. Blockx was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Blockx scored just 1 ace during the match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Alexander Blockx lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Blockx put 62% of his first serves in, winning 68% (21/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the 2nd serve. Alexander broke Martin 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Blockx has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 61% of his matches (98-63). 7-4 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Blockx has an aggregate20-20 record in the last 4 years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he defeated Liam Draxl in the final 7-5 6-1.
The Belgian has a compiled 24-17 win-loss record in 2025, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.
Yu Hsiou Hsu
24 - 19win/loss
217
158
LWWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-21 | 27-17 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-30 | 38-25 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-21 | 30-15 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-24 | 47-18 | 5-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 49-16 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 226, Yu got to the 2nd round after beating Patrick Maloney 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Maloney (7-5 6-3). During the match Hsiou scored 76 points vs Maloney’s 60. The Chinese was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Hsiou struck 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yu Hsiou Hsu was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (32/44) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Yu broke Maloney 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
The Chinese’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Timaru.
Yu has an aggregate 24-18 win-loss record in 2025, 21-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blockx | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 21 |
| Pts | 65-50 | 76-60 |
| Total Points | 115 | 136 |
| Winners | 21 | 32 |
| %Winners | 32% | 42% |
Both Blockx and Hsiou played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Blockx and Hsiou have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Blockx played 1 game less than Hsiou. The Belgian scored 21 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Yu scored 32 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blockx | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 44/62 |
| %1st in | 62% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 21/31 | 32/44 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 11/18 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 61% |
Blockx managed to score 1 ace . Hsiou also fired 5 aces . Blockx won 68% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Hsiou won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blockx | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 56% | 40% |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 33% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Alexander broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Alexander lost his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The Chinese broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Blockx | |||
| R1 Martin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 65-50 | 65-50 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 31/50 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 21/31 | 21/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Hsiou | |||
| R1 Maloney |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 76-60 | 76-60 | |
| Total points | 136 | 136 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/62 | 44/62 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 32/44 | 32/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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