Roberto Carballes Baena and Damir Dzumhur will square off in the final of the Belgrade Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roberto Carballes Baena who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roberto Carballes Baena is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Carballes Baena -> 1.80
Damir Dzumhur -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Damir Dzumhur
This will be the 2nd time that Roberto Carballes Baena and Damir Dzumhur square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Carballes Baena (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Carballes Baena won 6-1 7-6(4) in the 2nd round in Bastad back in 2019.
Roberto Carballes Baena
Ranked no. 105, Roberto got to the final after beating Arthur Rinderknech 6-4 7-64, Marco Trungelliti 6-2 6-4, Blaz Rola 7-67 6-1 and Liam Broady 3-6 6-2 6-3.
In the semifinal against Broady, Carballes Baena recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-2 6-3). During the match Carballes Baena scored 91 points vs Broady’s 75. Carballes Baena was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Regarding the service games, Carballes Baena wasn’t able to score even 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Roberto Carballes Baena lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Carballes Baena put 75% of his first serves in, winning 61% (37/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Broady 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Carballes Baena started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 1 set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Carballes Baena has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (399-269). 8-6 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Carballes Baena has a 359-220 match record in the last years on clay.
Roberto’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Belgrade Challenger.
Carballes Baena has a 9-8 win-loss record in 2021, 8-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Belgrade Challenger
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Damir Dzumhur
Ranked no. 127, Damir reached the final after defeating Pedja Krstin 4-6 6-2 6-3, Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-3, Taro Daniel 6-4 6-4 and Jozef Kovalik 3-6 6-3 6-3.
In the semifinal against Kovalik, Damir recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-3). During the match Dzumhur scored 101 points vs Kovalik’s 96. Damir was pretty aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Talking about serving, Dzumhur was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Damir Dzumhur lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Dzumhur put 73% of his first serves in, winning 71% (48/68) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (9/25) on the 2nd serve. The Bosnian broke Kovalik 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Bosnian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Dzumhur’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Belgrade Challenger.
Dzumhur has a 10-8 win-loss record in 2021, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Carballes Baena | Dzumhur |
---|---|---|
Match played | 4 | 4 |
Tot Set | 9 | 10 |
Tot Games | 87 | 93 |
Pts | 314-252 | 347-306 |
Total Points | 566 | 653 |
Winners | 141 | 140 |
%Winners | 45% | 40% |
Both Carballes Baena and Dzumhur played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Roberto Carballes Baena surrendered 1 set, while Damir Dzumhur conceded 2 sets. Carballes Baena has played 1 set(s) less than Dzumhur (9 vs 10). Therefore, Carballes Baena played 6 games less than Dzumhur. Carballes Baena scored 141 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Dzumhur managed to score 140 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Carballes Baena | Dzumhur |
---|---|---|
Aces | 2 | 13 |
Avg per match | 0.5 | 3.3 |
1st in | 227/281 | 207/317 |
%1st in | 81% | 65% |
1st pts | 141/227 | 140/207 |
%1st pts | 62% | 68% |
2nd pts | 32/54 | 51/110 |
%2nd pts | 59% | 46% |
Carballes Baena bagged 2 aces (0.5 per match). Dzumhur struck 13 aces (3.3 per match). Carballes Baena won 62% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Dzumhur won 68% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Carballes Baena | Dzumhur |
---|---|---|
Won | 20 | 19 |
Converted | 20/40 | 19/45 |
% Converted | 50% | 42% |
Conceded | 29 | 28 |
Saved | 17 | 17 |
% Saved | 59% | 61% |
Times Broken | 12 | 11 |
Roberto broke his opponents 20 times with a 50% conversion rate. Roberto surrendered his serve 12 times and he saved 59% of the break points that he conceded. Dzumhur broke his opponents 19 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Bosnian conceded his serve 11 times and he saved 61% of the break points that he conceded.
Carballes Baena | ||||||
R1 Rinderknech |
R2 Trungelliti |
1/4 Rola |
1/2 Broady |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 7-64 | 6-2 6-4 | 7-67 6-1 | 3-6 6-2 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
Tot Games | 23 | 18 | 20 | 26 | 87 | |
pts | 84-74 | 66-45 | 73-58 | 91-75 | 314-252 | |
Total points | 158 | 111 | 131 | 166 | 566 | |
Winners | 41 | 31 | 32 | 37 | 141 | |
%Winners | 49% | 47% | 44% | 41% | 45% | |
SERVE | ||||||
Aces | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
1st in | 62/76 | 51/59 | 53/65 | 61/81 | 227/281 | |
% 1st in | 82% | 86% | 82% | 75% | 81% | |
1st pts | 41/62 | 31/51 | 32/53 | 37/61 | 141/227 | |
% 1st pts | 66% | 61% | 60% | 61% | 62% | |
2nd pts | 9/14 | 3/8 | 7/12 | 13/20 | 32/54 | |
% 2nd pts | 64% | 38% | 58% | 65% | 59% | |
Breaks | ||||||
Won | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 20 | |
Converted | 3/8 | 6/10 | 5/8 | 6/14 | 20/40 | |
Converted % | 38% | 60% | 63% | 43% | 50% | |
Conceded | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 29 | |
Saved | 4/6 | 5/8 | 3/6 | 5/9 | 17 | |
Saved % | 67% | 63% | 50% | 56% | 59% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
Dzumhur | ||||||
R1 Krstin |
R2 Kohlschreiber |
1/4 Daniel |
1/2 Kovalik |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 4-6 6-2 6-3 | 6-4 6-3 | 6-4 6-4 | 3-6 6-3 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |
Tot Games | 27 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 93 | |
pts | 99-86 | 70-56 | 77-68 | 101-96 | 347-306 | |
Total points | 185 | 126 | 145 | 197 | 653 | |
Winners | 37 | 33 | 22 | 48 | 140 | |
%Winners | 37% | 47% | 29% | 48% | 40% | |
SERVE | ||||||
Aces | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 13 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | |
1st in | 56/95 | 47/68 | 36/61 | 68/93 | 207/317 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 69% | 59% | 73% | 65% | |
1st pts | 37/56 | 33/47 | 22/36 | 48/68 | 140/207 | |
% 1st pts | 66% | 70% | 61% | 71% | 68% | |
2nd pts | 20/39 | 9/21 | 13/25 | 9/25 | 51/110 | |
% 2nd pts | 51% | 43% | 52% | 36% | 46% | |
Breaks | ||||||
Won | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 19 | |
Converted | 5/12 | 4/6 | 5/14 | 5/13 | 19/45 | |
Converted % | 42% | 67% | 36% | 38% | 42% | |
Conceded | 10 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 28 | |
Saved | 7/10 | 1/3 | 2/5 | 7/10 | 17 | |
Saved % | 70% | 33% | 40% | 70% | 53% | |
Times Broken | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
Head 2 Head
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