Richard Gasquet and Tomas Machac will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Orleans Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 7:00 pm on CENTRAL ARENA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.

(image) As per the initial odds, Tomas Machac is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Machac -> 1.54
Richard Gasquet -> 2.4

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Prediction and head to head Richard Gasquet vs. Tomas Machac

This will be the 2^nd time that Richard Gasquet and Tomas Machac play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Machac (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Machac won 7-6(3) 6-2 in the Rubber 1 in Davis Cup, Finals, Group C back in 2021.

Richard Gasquet

Ranked no. 64, the French player got to the semifinal after defeating Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-2 6-4, Elias Ymer 7-5 3-6 6-1 and Arthur Fery 7-5 4-6 6-3.

In the quarter, The French player defeated Fery (7-5 4-6 6-3). During the match, Gasquet scored 95 points vs Fery’s 89. Gasquet was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Talking about the service games, Gasquet fired 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Richard Gasquet was quite efficient on Serve to win 73% (43/59) of his 1st serve and 51% (20/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The French player broke Fery 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Richard has surrendered 2 set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.

Gasquet has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (291-193). 7-4 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Gasquet has a composed 86-51 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the current season was winning the title in Auckland where he beat Cameron Norrie in the final 4-6 6-4 6-4.

Gasquet has an aggregate 26-26 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Orleans Challenger

Tomas Machac

Ranked no. 118, the Czech got to the semifinal after beating Maxime Cressy 7-6⁹ 6-4, Constant Lestienne 6-2 7-6⁵ and Benjamin Bonzi 7-6⁵ 6-1.

In the quarter, Machac had a good straight sets win against Bonzi (7-6⁵ 6-1). During the match Machac scored 74 points vs Bonzi’s 62. The Czech was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Machac managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Tomas Machac lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Machac put 60% of his first serves in, winning 60% (29/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the 2nd serve. Tomas broke Bonzi 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Machac hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Machac’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Prostejov Challenger and the Cassis Challenger.

Tomas has an aggregate 39-23 win-loss record in 2023, 5-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Orleans Challenger

The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Gasquet and Machac played 3 matches. At the moment, Richard Gasquet dropped 2 sets while Tomas Machac hasn’t dropped a set so far. Gasquet has played 2 sets more than Machac (8 vs 6). Therefore, Gasquet played 13 games more than Machac. Richard scored 107 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Machac struck 95 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Gasquet blasted 11 aces (3.7 per match). Machac blasted 9 aces (3 per match). Gasquet won 80% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Machac won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Richard broke his opponents 10 times with a 67% conversion rate. Richard surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Tomas broke his opponents 9 times with a 56% conversion rate. Tomas conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.