Mark Lajal and Geoffrey Blancaneaux will face off in the 1st round of the Lyon Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 6. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 2 sets.
Mark Lajal -> 1.33
Geoffrey Blancaneaux -> 2.98
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Geoffrey Blancaneaux
This will be the 2nd time that Mark Lajal and Geoffrey Blancaneaux face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lajal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Lajal won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in the Captif Challenger back in 2024.
Mark Lajal
44 - 24win/loss
146
145
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45-25 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 14-8 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 149, Lajal will start his run in the Lyon Challenger after he played his last match in Athens where he lost 7-6(1) 7-5 to Struff in the qualifications on the 1st of November.
Lajal has a composed 44-24 win-loss record in 2025, 13-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Bloomfield Hills Challenger where he beat Andres Martin in the final 6-7(7) 7-5 7-6(9).
Talking about his overall career, Mark has an overall 179-114 record. He has a positive 53-35 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Lajal has never competed in this tournament before.
Geoffrey Blancaneaux
30 - 33win/loss
248
134
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-34 | 0-5 | 23-21 | 7-7 | 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. 254, Geoffrey reached the 1st round after beating Gregoire Barrere 6-4 6-1 and Arthur Bouquier 5-7 7-6(4) 6-2.
In the qualifications against Bouquier, Blancaneaux recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-64 6-2). During the match Blancaneaux scored 116 points vs Bouquier’s 102. Geoffrey was exceptionally aggressive to blast 65 winners.
Talking about serving, Blancaneaux bagged 8 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Geoffrey Blancaneaux lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Blancaneaux put 70% of his first serves in, winning 76% (65/85) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (15/36) on the 2nd serve. Geoffrey broke Bouquier 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Blancaneaux started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Brazzaville Challenger where he beat Calvin Hemery in the final 6-3 6-4.
Geoffrey has a compiled 30-33 win-loss record in 2025, 7-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger
- Laslo DjereDjere – Ugo BlanchetBlanchet (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur FeryFery – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Arthur GeaGea (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca Van AsscheVan Assche – Gauthier OnclinOnclin (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tom ParisParis – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomasz BerkietaBerkieta – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur FeryFery – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Billy HarrisHarris (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Francesco PassaroPassaro (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Dan AddedAdded (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Titouan DroguetDroguet – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (0-4) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate – (0-0) – H2H and prediction