Liam Draxl and Alexis Galarneau will fight against each other in the quarter of the Granby Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 5:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Liam Draxl who should win in 3 sets.
Liam Draxl -> 1.5
Alexis Galarneau -> 2.45
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Prediction and head to head Liam Draxl vs. Alexis Galarneau
This will be the 3rd time that Liam Draxl and Alexis Galarneau play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Draxl (see full H2H stats
), but they have never played each other on hard.The last time that they competed against each other, Draxl won 6-4 4-6 6-2 in the semifinal in the Oeiras 3 Challenger back in January 2025.
Liam Draxl
40 - 17win/loss
129
113
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49-29 | 20-13 | 10-5 | 19-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 51-24 | 21-10 | 17-12 | 13-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-9 | 23-5 | 0-0 | 13-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-16 | 16-10 | 3-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-14 | 16-9 | 12-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 121 (career-high), the Canadian got to the quarter after defeating Alfredo Perez 3-6 7-5 6-2 and Kris Van Wyk 6-0 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Liam had a good straight sets win against Van Wyk (6-0 6-1). During the match, Draxl scored 55 points vs Van Wyk’s 26. Draxl was pretty aggressive to blast 14 winners.
Talking about the service games, Draxl scored just 1 ace in the match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Liam Draxl was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (14/19) of his 1st serve and 79% (11/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Draxl broke Van Wyk 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Liam has conceded 1 set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Draxl has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 67% of his matches (200-98). 14-5 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Draxl has an overall102-49 record in the last 8 years on hard.
His best result of the season was winning the title the Winnipeg Challenger where he overcame Alexander Blockx in the final 1-6 6-3 6-4.
Liam has an overall 39-17 win-loss record in 2025, 14-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Alexis Galarneau
26 - 21win/loss
205
153
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-32 | 24-18 | 1-3 | 11-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-26 | 15-12 | 8-6 | 12-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-26 | 20-18 | 3-5 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-28 | 12-7 | 9-9 | 18-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-20 | 13-9 | 5-6 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 204, the Canadian reached the quarter after beating Aidan Mayo 6-3 6-4 and Omar Jasika 6-1 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Galarneau had a good straight sets win against Jasika (6-1 6-1). During the match Galarneau scored 58 points vs Jasika’s 29. Galarneau was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Galarneau managed to score 3 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alexis Galarneau was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Canadian broke Jasika 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Galarneau hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Alexis’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger,the Oeiras 3 Challenger,the Pune Challenger and the Cuernavaca Challenger.
Alexis has a compiled 26-20 win-loss record in 2025, 18-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Draxl | Galarneau |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 42 | 33 |
| Pts | 148-106 | 128-84 |
| Total Points | 254 | 212 |
| Winners | 53 | 46 |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% |
Both Draxl and Galarneau played 2 matches. At the moment, Liam Draxl conceded 1 set while Alexis Galarneau hasn’t lost a set so far. Draxl has played 1 set more than Galarneau (5 vs 4). Therefore, Draxl played 9 games more than Galarneau. Liam scored 53 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Alexis recorded 46 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Draxl | Galarneau |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3.5 |
| 1st in | 75/121 | 58/93 |
| %1st in | 62% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 53/75 | 46/58 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 27/46 | 25/35 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 71% |
Draxl scored 8 aces (4 per match). Galarneau recorded 7 aces (3.5 per match). Draxl won 71% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Galarneau won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Draxl | Galarneau |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 11 | 7 |
| Converted | 11/19 | 7/20 |
| % Converted | 58% | 35% |
| Conceded | 12 | 1 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Liam broke his opponents 11 times with a 58% conversion rate. Liam surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Galarneau broke his opponents 7 times with a 35% conversion rate. Galarneau was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Draxl | ||||
| R1 Perez | R2 Van | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 7-5 6-2 | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 13 | 42 | |
| pts | 93-80 | 55-26 | 148-106 | |
| Total points | 173 | 81 | 254 | |
| Winners | 39 | 14 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 25% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 56/88 | 19/33 | 75/121 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 58% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 39/56 | 14/19 | 53/75 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 74% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/32 | 11/14 | 27/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 79% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 6/9 | 11/19 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 67% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 2 | 12 | |
| Saved | 6/10 | 2/2 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 100% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Galarneau | ||||
| R1 Mayo | R2 Jasika | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 14 | 33 | |
| pts | 70-55 | 58-29 | 128-84 | |
| Total points | 125 | 87 | 212 | |
| Winners | 26 | 20 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 34% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/54 | 25/39 | 58/93 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 64% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 20/25 | 46/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 80% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/21 | 10/14 | 25/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| Converted | 2/11 | 5/9 | 7/20 | |
| Converted % | 18% | 56% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
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