Alexander Blockx and Arthur Bouquier will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Lille Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Alexander Blockx who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Blockx is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Blockx -> 1.3
Arthur Bouquier -> 3.14
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Blockx vs. Arthur Bouquier
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Blockx and Arthur Bouquier fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Blockx (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Blockx won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in the Captif Challenger back in 2025.
Alexander Blockx
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37-17 | 16-8 | 16-6 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 46-28 | 15-9 | 4-4 | 23-11 | 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. 104, Alexander got to the 2nd round after defeating Roman Safiullin 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Safiullin (6-2 6-2). During the match, Blockx scored 60 points vs Safiullin’s 41. The Belgian was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Blockx fired 5 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults. Alexander Blockx was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (23/32) 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. Blockx broke Safiullin 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Blockx has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (129-77). 2-1 on indoor hard courts in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Blockx has an overall66-28 match record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Canberra Challenger where he overcame Rafael Jodar in the final 6-4 6-4.
Blockx has an aggregate 9-3 win-loss record in 2026, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lille Challenger
Arthur Bouquier
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 21-22 | 0-4 | 2-4 | 18-11 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2024 | 47-16 | 13-4 | 0-0 | 26-11 | 0-0 | 8-1 |
| 2023 | 30-23 | 18-13 | 0-1 | 8-7 | 1-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 26-15 | 0-0 | 12-9 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 358, Arthur got to the 2nd round after beating Kimmer Coppejans 7-5 0-6 7-5.
In the 1st round, Bouquier defeated Coppejans (7-5 0-6 7-5).During the match Bouquier scored less points (4) than Coppejans. In fact, the world no. 104 won 107 points vs Coppejans’s. That means that Bouquier was more focused during the important points. Bouquier was quite aggressive to blast 57 winners.
About the serving games, Bouquier scored 15 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Arthur Bouquier lost the serve 5 times and he saved 18 break points. Furthermore, Bouquier put 68% of his first serves in, winning 68% (57/84) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (12/39) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Coppejans 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Arthur has a composed 3-3 win-loss record in 2026, 3-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lille Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2025. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Blockx | Bouquier |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 30 |
| Pts | 60-41 | 107-111 |
| Total Points | 101 | 218 |
| Winners | 23 | 57 |
| %Winners | 38% | 53% |
Both Blockx and Bouquier played 1 match. At the moment, Arthur Bouquier conceded 1 set while Alexander Blockx hasn’t conceded a set so far. Blockx has played 1 set(s) less than Bouquier (2 vs 3). Therefore, Blockx played 14 games less than Bouquier. Alexander scored 23 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Arthur recorded 57 winners (53%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Blockx | Bouquier |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 15 |
| 1st in | 32/46 | 84/123 |
| %1st in | 70% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 23/32 | 57/84 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 68% |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 12/39 |
| %2nd pts | 71% | 31% |
Blockx managed to score 5 aces . Bouquier made 15 aces . Blockx won 72% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 71% of the points. On the other side, Bouquier won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 31% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Blockx | Bouquier |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 44% |
| Conceded | 0 | 23 |
| Saved | 0 | 18 |
| % Saved | 0% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Blockx broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Blockx pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Arthur broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Bouquier conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Blockx | |||
| R1 Safiullin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-41 | 60-41 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/46 | 32/46 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 23/32 | 23/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Bouquier | |||
| R1 Coppejans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 0-6 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 107-111 | 107-111 | |
| Total points | 218 | 218 | |
| Winners | 57 | 57 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 84/123 | 84/123 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 57/84 | 57/84 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/39 | 12/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 31% | 31% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 23 | 23 | |
| Saved | 18/23 | 18 | |
| Saved % | 78% | 78% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
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