Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Pol Martin Tiffon will square off in the qualifications of the Aix En Provence Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on NISSAN COURIANT. 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 Pol Martin Tiffon who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pol Martin Tiffon is the pick to win this match.
Pol Martin Tiffon -> 1.76
Pierre-Hugues Herbert -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Pierre-Hugues Herbert vs. Pol Martin Tiffon
There is no head to head record between Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Pol Martin Tiffon since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert
11 - 8win/loss
278
36
LLWLLLLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 17-18 | 5-5 | 5-8 | 5-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 27-27 | 1-5 | 8-11 | 15-8 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-31 | 3-5 | 8-11 | 19-12 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 2-4 | 5-4 | 16-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 2-5 | 10-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 225, Pierre-Hugues reached the qualifications after defeating Arthur Nagel 6-2 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Nagel (6-2 7-64). During the match, Herbert scored 78 points vs Nagel’s 66. Pierre-Hugues was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Herbert struck 4 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Pierre-Hugues Herbert lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Herbert put 59% of his first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (14/30) on the 2nd serve. Pierre-Hugues broke Nagel 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Herbert has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (237-215). 2-2 on clay in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Herbert has an aggregate 58-60 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Herbert’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the St. Brieuc Challenger.
Pierre-Hugues has an aggregate 11-8 win-loss record in 2026, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Aix En Provence Challenger
Pol Martin Tiffon
18 - 11win/loss
210
197
LLWLLLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 30-20 | 12-5 | 17-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 21-23 | 3-4 | 17-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 69-27 | 4-2 | 65-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-25 | 5-2 | 30-20 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-20 | 0-1 | 38-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 312, the Spaniard reached the qualifications after defeating Tommaso Compagnucci 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Compagnucci (6-4 6-3). During the match Martin scored 76 points vs Compagnucci’s 65. Pol was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Martin couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Pol Martin Tiffon was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Martin broke Compagnucci 4 times after converting 24% of his break points (4/17).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger where he overcame Maximus Jones in the final 6-4 3-6 6-4.
Pol has an aggregate 18-11 win-loss record in 2026, 6-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Aix En Provence Challenger
Pol has never competed in this tournament before.
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Herbert | Martin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 19 |
| Pts | 78-66 | 76-65 |
| Total Points | 144 | 141 |
| Winners | 29 | 20 |
| %Winners | 37% | 26% |
Both Herbert and Martin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Herbert and Martin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Herbert played 2 games more than Martin. Herbert scored 29 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Pol managed to score 20 winners (26%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Herbert | Martin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 43/73 | 25/53 |
| %1st in | 59% | 47% |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 20/25 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 14/30 | 16/28 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 57% |
Herbert managed to score 4 aces . Martin didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Herbert won 67% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Martin won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Herbert | Martin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/17 |
| % Converted | 50% | 24% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 57% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
The French player broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Herbert conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Martin broke his opponent 4 times with a 24% conversion rate. Pol conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Herbert | |||
| Q1 Nagel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 78-66 | 78-66 | |
| Total points | 144 | 144 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 43/73 | 43/73 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/30 | 14/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Martin | |||
| Q1 Compagnucci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 76-65 | 76-65 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/53 | 25/53 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 16/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/17 | 4/17 | |
| Converted % | 24% | 24% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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