Tomas Machac and Otto Virtanen will square off in the 2nd round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tomas Machac is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Machac -> 1.68
Otto Virtanen -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Otto Virtanen
This will be the 2nd time that Tomas Machac and Otto Virtanen play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Virtanen (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Virtanen won 2-6 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in the Liberec Challenger back in August 2022.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-19 | 15-9 | 2-5 | 3-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-24 | 22-11 | 9-5 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-10 | 16-11 | 18-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-19 | 24-6 | 5-2 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 28-19 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 12-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 |
Ranked no. 112, Tomas got to the 2nd round after beating Alibek Kachmazov 7-64 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Kachmazov (7-64 6-4). During the match, Machac scored 73 points vs Kachmazov’s 62. The Czech was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about the service games, Machac managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Tomas Machac was quite efficient on serve to win 78% (32/41) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Czech broke Kachmazov 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Machac has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 68% of his matches (164-78). 14-8 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Machac has a compiled59-28 record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
Machac’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Traralgon Challenger and the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger.
Machac has a compiled 43-17 win-loss record in 2022, 14-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-24 | 4-9 | 5-9 | 12-6 | 6-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 43-28 | 9-11 | 5-7 | 24-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 182 (career-high), the Finn got to the 2nd round after defeating Aleksi Lofman 6-1 7-5.
In the 1st round, Virtanen had a good straight sets win against Lofman (6-1 7-5). During the match Virtanen scored 62 points vs Lofman’s 35. Otto was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Virtanen struck 9 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Otto Virtanen was extremely efficient on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 76% (16/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Virtanen broke Lofman 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
The Finn’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Vilnius,M15 Kouvola and the Bergamo Challenger.
Otto has an overall 46-30 win-loss record in 2022, 25-12 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Machac | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 19 |
| Pts | 73-62 | 62-35 |
| Total Points | 135 | 97 |
| Winners | 32 | 24 |
| %Winners | 44% | 39% |
Both Machac and Virtanen played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Machac and Virtanen have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Machac played 4 games more than Virtanen. Machac scored 32 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Otto struck 24 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Machac | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 9 |
| 1st in | 41/65 | 27/48 |
| %1st in | 63% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 32/41 | 24/27 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 16/21 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 76% |
Machac struck 3 aces . Virtanen scored 9 aces . Machac won 78% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Virtanen won 89% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 76% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Machac | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 60% | 60% |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Machac broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Czech lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Otto broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Virtanen was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Machac | |||
| R1 Kachmazov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 73-62 | 73-62 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 41/65 | 41/65 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 32/41 | 32/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Virtanen | |||
| R1 Lofman |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 62-35 | 62-35 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 27/48 | 27/48 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 24/27 | 24/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/21 | 16/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 76% | 76% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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