Who Will Win: Klein Vs Halys? Prediction For ATP Efg Swiss Open Gstaad 2024

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Klein and Halys are on the Day 4 Schedule at Efg Swiss Open Gstaad 2024 on Thursday 18 July 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

Lukas Klein from Slovakia and [Q] Quentin Halys from France will face each other for the first time at the tour level. They have met before in the Brisbane qualifiers, where Klein emerged victorious with a score of 6-4, 7-6(1). Klein is currently 26 years old and ranked at world number 118, with a career-high ranking of 116 achieved in April 2024. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 6-5, with five appearances in the second round. In the Gstaad tournament, he has a record of 1-0, having reached the second round. Notable achievements in Klein’s career include breaking into the top 300 in 2020, the top 200 in 2022, and earning his highest ranking after winning his first ATP Masters 1000 match in Miami.

Klein made his ATP Tour debut in 2021 at Buenos Aires, defeating fellow compatriot Martin in the first round. He also participated in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and made his Grand Slam debut at 2022 Wimbledon. His first Grand Slam win came at the 2024 Australian Open against Kwon, and he reached the second round before losing to Zverev in a fifth-set tiebreak. In the 2024 season opener, he achieved his biggest career win by defeating the 28th-ranked Baez in Brisbane but lost to Arnaldi in the second round. Klein has a successful Challenger record of 98 wins and 77 losses, with three titles to his name, including victories at Troisdoft and Alicante in 2022 and Ortisei in 2023. Notably, he defeated Swiss No. 1 Wawrinka in the first round and hopes to reach his first ATP Tour quarterfinal, becoming the first Slovak to achieve this in Gstaad since Marian Vajda in 1988.

Quentin Halys, on the other hand, is 27 years old and currently ranked at world number 192, with a career-high ranking of 61. In 2024, he has a win-loss record of 5-3, reaching the third

round at Wimbledon. In the Gstaad tournament, he has a record of 1-0, having reached the second round. Halys had an impressive junior career, reaching a career-high rank of world number 3 and earning his first ranking point at the age of 15 in 2012. He broke into the top 200 in 2015 and the top 100 in 2022. His career-best ranking of 61 came after reaching his first ATP Tour quarterfinal at the 2023 Auckland tournament. He also reached his first ATP Tour semifinal at the 2023 Estoril event, despite having a 1-9 tour-level record on clay. Halys’ last win on clay came in 2016 at Roland Garros, defeating Chung in the first round.

Halys achieved his first win against a top 20 player by defeating de Minaur and reached the fourth round of the ATP Masters 1000 event in Miami in 2023, where he lost to the eventual champion, Medvedev. He had an impressive record of 43 wins and 10 losses in the Challenger circuit in 2022, winning titles at Pau, Lille, and Ismaning. In 2018, he defeated future world number 3 Tsitsipas en route to winning his second Challenger title at the Quimper tournament. On the ITF Junior Circuit, Halys had a singles record of 129 wins and 46 losses, along with 83 wins and 35 losses in doubles. He ended his junior career by reaching the final of the 2014 US Open boys’ singles and winning the 2014 Roland Garros boys’ doubles title with his countryman Bonzi.

In the Gstaad tournament, Halys is aiming to reach his fourth ATP Tour quarterfinal, with a current record of 1-2. His last quarterfinal appearance came in 2023 at Estoril, where he lost to the eventual champion, Ruud. Halys has risen 24 spots in the PIF ATP Live Rankings to reach world number 168 and could potentially rise further to world number 159 with a victory in the second round.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Klein will win.
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