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Jenson Brooksby #99United States2Timo Legout #351France0

Sets 6-2 · 6-4Wed 21 Oct 2026, 19:45 Predictions gradedSecond RoundHard

Predictions4–267%

Edges0–20%

Player Profiles

Ranking advantageJenson Brooksby · 252 places

Jenson Brooksby

United States

Brooksby, 25, is the right-hander in this matchup. He returned in 2025 after left- and right-wrist surgeries in 2023; those surgeries are career background rather than a current tournament development.

Current ranking: #99
Peak ranking: #33 · 2022
Current age: 25
Preferred surface: Hard
Hand: Right handed
Height: 193 cm

Timo Legout

France

French right-hander who reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 406 on 29 May 2023. The supplied structured data lists him at No. 535; ITF lists clay as his preferred surface.

Current ranking: #351
Peak ranking: #406 · 2023
Current age: 24
Preferred surface: Hard
Hand: Right handed
Height: 178 cm

Quick Take

Pre-match view

Context last updated 21 Oct 2026, 06:38 · Europe/Bucharest

Legout has won 13 of his last 15 first sets on hard, Brooksby only six of 14, and the opener is where this second round diverges most.

Brooksby's ranking, 252 places higher, and his wins over Munar, Sonego and Baez still make him the likelier match winner, but 1.3 asks for 76.9% and does not fit. The Legout prices at 2.9 for the first set and 3.25 for the match do.

Context

Brooksby's first match of the late-season North American Challenger swing went to three sets after he lost the opener to a player ranked No. 349, and the Legout match follows two days later. The reversal is the useful part of the record: he had lost his previous match in Shanghai on 9 October and had not won since late September, so the Fort Worth opener broke a short losing run. The limitation is that one scrappy three-setter against a lower-ranked opponent says little about a full week's durability, and Legout also played his first round, so rest is even.
- Brooksby beat Mitchell Krueger 3-6 6-3 6-2 in the Fort Worth first round .
- Krueger was ranked No. 349, some 250 places below Brooksby's No. 99.
- The Brooksby-Legout match is listed as the Fort Worth round of 16 on Court V5 .
ConfirmedSources checked 21 Oct 2026, 06:36 · Europe/BucharestTennis.com Challenger Fort Worth match pagewww.tennis.com · 21 Oct 2026
Three weeks before this match Legout won five matches from qualifying at the second San Diego Challenger, including a quarterfinal over No. 200 Tristan Boyer, and stood two match points from a first Challenger final while ranked outside the top 350. That week is the strongest current evidence that his level sits above his ranking, which is exactly the question a second-round match against a No. 99 opponent poses. The counterweight is route quality: several of the wins came against opponents ranked 400 and below, and every one of those five matches went to a deciding set or an extra game, so the volume of matches and the quality of opposition point in different directions.
- Legout qualified and reached the semifinals of the second San Diego Challenger in late September 2026.
- Marcondes won that semifinal 6-7(5) 7-5 7-5 in two hours 48 minutes after saving two match points.
- Legout beat No. 200 Tristan Boyer in the quarterfinals of the same event.
ConfirmedSources checked 21 Oct 2026, 06:36 · Europe/Bucharest
Legout's fast starts have come mostly at Challenger and ITF level, so the record describes his opening-set level rather than his overall standing in the draw.
Brooksby has won only six of 14 first sets in the same window and lost the opener to No. 349 Krueger this week, so the opening set is where Legout's chance is clearest. The caveat is opposition: much of the 13-2 record came at Challenger and ITF level against players ranked well below Brooksby, who has faced No. 13 Davidovich Fokina and No. 51 Munar in that span.
- Legout first sets across 15 hard-court matches, 9 August to 19 October 2026: 13 wins, 2 losses, 5.87 games won and 3.13 lost per set.
- Legout second sets in the same 15 matches: 10 wins, 5 losses.
The 6-3 6-1 is the cleanest scoreline in Legout's recent record, but the treatment break came at 0-3 in the second set and Winter won only one more game afterwards, so the match stopped being a fair test of Legout's level roughly halfway through. That matters here because it removes the most recent full-length evidence a reader would otherwise use, leaving the San Diego run three weeks earlier as the main guide to his form. Winter played on to the end, so there is no retirement to discount and no fitness question attached to Legout himself.
- Winter called for treatment on a leg at 0-3, 0-40 down in the second set of the Fort Worth first round .
- Legout won the match 6-3 6-1 and advanced to the second round.
- Winter completed the match; there was no retirement or walkover.
ReportedSources checked 21 Oct 2026, 06:36 · Europe/BucharestFlashscore Brooksby-Legout match pagewww.flashscore.in · 21 Oct 2026

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Result1 of 1 landed

Signal quality Medium · Uncertainty band Lean · Not priced
The read
Brooksby has beaten much stronger hard-court opponents, while Legout's recent wins have come mostly against lower-ranked players.
- Brooksby is ranked No. 99; Legout is No. 351.
- Brooksby is 8-7 on hard with wins over No. 51 Munar, No. 89 Sonego and No. 49 Baez.
- Legout is 11-4 on hard but lost to No. 889 Velcz in his last ITF event.
- Brooksby won 51.1% of total points on hard; Legout won 53.5% against weaker opposition.
BetBugs · Match WinnerwonJenson BrooksbyEstimated chance58%

Games0 of 1 landed

Signal quality Medium · Uncertainty band Slight lean · Not priced
The read
The line sits on both players' recent hard-court averages, and Legout's strong return game points to enough breaks to push the total over.
- SetEvidence total games average: Brooksby 21.3, Legout 21.6.
- Brooksby's set1 and set2 game averages are 9.6 and 10.6; Legout's are 9.0 and 9.5.
- Legout returns 45.3% of points and breaks 47.5% of the time.
BetBugs · Total GameslostOver 21.5Estimated chance55%

Sets1 of 2 landed

Signal quality Medium · Uncertainty band Slight lean · Not priced
The read
Straight-set results are the most common outcome for both players on hard this window.
- Brooksby's hard matches averaged 2.14 sets; Legout's averaged 2.33.
- Brooksby won 2-0 in 6 of 14; Legout won 2-0 in 9 of 15.
- Legout's Fort Worth opener was a 2-0 win.
BetBugs · Total SetswonUnder 2.5Estimated chance57%
Signal quality Medium · Uncertainty band Slight lean · Market price 2.90
The read
Legout has started matches strongly on hard, while Brooksby has often given up the opening set.
- Legout has won 13 of 15 first sets on hard.
- Legout averages 5.87 games won and 3.13 lost in first sets.
- Brooksby has won 6 of 14 first sets and lost the opener to Krueger.
- Brooksby's first-set opponents included No. 13 Davidovich Fokina and No. 51 Munar.
BetBugs · Set 1 WinnerlostTimo LegoutEstimated chance54%

Match stats1 of 1 landed

Signal quality Medium · Uncertainty band Strong lean · Not priced
The read
Most recent hard-court sets for both players have been decided without a tiebreak.
- Only 2 of Brooksby's 14 hard matches and 3 of Legout's 15 had a tiebreak.
- Brooksby's first sets produced no tiebreaks in 14 hard matches.
- Legout's first sets produced 2 tiebreaks in 15; his second sets 1.
BetBugs · Tiebreak in MatchwonNoEstimated chance70%
Signal quality Medium · Uncertainty band Slight lean · Not priced
The read
Legout's double-fault rate is the main driver, and the combined average is above the line.
- Legout averages 2.8 double faults per hard match; Brooksby averages 1.1.
- Legout has 42 double faults in 15 hard matches; Brooksby has 16.
- Combined recent average is 3.9 double faults per match.
BetBugs · Total Double Faultsnot gradableOver 3.5Estimated chance57%
Signal quality Medium · Uncertainty band Slight lean · Not priced
The read
Brooksby supplies most of the ace count, and the combined recent average is above the line.
- Brooksby averages 3.1 aces per hard match; Legout averages 0.7.
- Brooksby has 46 aces in 15 hard matches; Legout has 11.
- Combined recent average is 3.8 aces per match.
BetBugs · Total Acesnot gradableOver 3.5Estimated chance56%

Previous match context available

Jenson Brooksby

8W 7L

3-6 6-3 6-2#349Mitchell Krueger

6-1 6-3#13Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

7-5 6-4#51Jaume Antoni Munar Clar

6-4 7-6(4)#128Nikoloz Basilashvili

5-7 7-5 6-2#89Lorenzo Sonego

7-5 7-5#49Sebastian Baez

6-3 7-6(4) 4-6 1-6 6-2#56Jaime Faria

6-4 7-6(6)#39Stefanos Tsitsipas

6-3 6-2#145Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard

6-3 6-2#56Jaime Faria

6-3 7-5#4Ben Shelton

6-3 6-4#97Adam Walton

6-1 7-5#92Chak Lam Coleman Wong

6-3 6-4#401Edward Winter

6-4 6-4#94Corentin Moutet

Timo Legout

11W 4L

6-3 6-1#401Edward Winter

0-6 6-3 6-2#889Zsombor Velcz

6-7(5) 7-5 7-5#266Igor Ribeiro Marcondes

2-6 7-5 7-5#200Tristan Boyer

6-3 6-3#218Colton Smith

7-5 6-7(5) 6-2#319Daniel Milavsky

6-3 6-1#544Daniil Ostapenkov

6-2 6-0#766Darian King

7-6(6) 6-2#572Bryce Nakashima

6-1 6-4#220Henry Searle

6-3 6-4#544Daniil Ostapenkov

6-1 6-4#762Evan Bynoe

3-6 6-4 6-1#458Garrett Johns

6-2 6-3#336Aidan Mayo

6-2 6-4#462Evan Zhu

Stat Battle

Last 15 match performance, compared side by side.

JBJenson BrooksbyBrooksby

Last 15

4–4

9 core stats · 1 even

Timo LegoutLegoutTL

Dead-even recent form — the edges are in serve.

Serve · 3–1 · 1 even

1st Serve In68.2%—68.2%

1st Serve Won70.3%+4.1pp66.2%

2nd Serve Won52.7%+0.9pp53.6%

Aces / Match3.1+2.40.7

Double Faults / Match1.11.7 fewer2.8

Return · 0–1

Return Pts Won38.6%+6.7pp45.3%

Pressure · 1–1

Break Pts Converted38.2%+9.3pp47.5%

Break Pts Saved60.2%+2.0pp58.2%

Points · 0–1

Total Pts Won51.1%+2.4pp53.5%

Serve · 3–1 · 1 even

68.2%1st Serve In—68.2%

70.3%1st Serve Won+4.1pp66.2%

52.7%2nd Serve Won+0.9pp53.6%

3.1Aces / Match+2.40.7

1.1Double Faults / Match1.7 fewer2.8

Return · 0–1

38.6%Return Pts Won+6.7pp45.3%

Pressure · 1–1

38.2%Break Pts Converted+9.3pp47.5%

60.2%Break Pts Saved+2.0pp58.2%

Points · 0–1

51.1%Total Pts Won+2.4pp53.5%