Jesper De Jong and Carlos Sanchez Jover will square off in the 1st round of the Murcia Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on PISTA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jesper De Jong who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jesper De Jong is the pick to win this match.
Jesper De Jong -> 1.24
Carlos Sanchez Jover -> 3.74
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Prediction and head to head Jesper De Jong vs. Carlos Sanchez Jover
This will be the 2nd time that Jesper De Jong and Carlos Sanchez Jover face off. The head to head is 1-0 for De Jong (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, De Jong won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in the Girona Challenger back in March 2023.
Jesper De Jong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 48-25 | 12-5 | 33-15 | 2-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-23 | 19-4 | 30-14 | 0-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-28 | 12-7 | 10-13 | 2-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-29 | 2-6 | 27-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 251, the Dutch got to the 1st round after beating Jorge Martinez Martinez 6-0 6-1 and Pablo Martinez Gomez 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, De Jong had a good straight sets win against Martinez Gomez (6-3 6-2). During the match, De Jong scored 69 points vs Martinez Gomez’s 46. The Dutch was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, De Jong bagged 2 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Jesper De Jong was pretty efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 82% (14/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Dutch broke Martinez Gomez 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jesper started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 64% of the points he played.
De Jong has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (176-106). 13-5 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, De Jong has an overall95-54 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
De Jong’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Tigre 2 Challenger and M25 Quinta Do Lago.
Jesper has an aggregate 23-7 win-loss record in 2023, 13-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Carlos Sanchez Jover
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 49-27 | 1-1 | 48-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-31 | 7-4 | 44-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-29 | 4-9 | 30-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 52-28 | 4-3 | 48-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 1-3 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 433, Carlos reached the 1st round after beating David Jorda Sanchis 6-2 6-2 and Alvaro Lopez San Martin 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Carlos had a good straight sets win against Lopez San Martin (6-1 6-4). During the match Sanchez Jover scored 65 points vs Lopez San Martin’s 47. Sanchez Jover was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Sanchez Jover scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Carlos Sanchez Jover lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Sanchez Jover put 70% of his first serves in, winning 60% (24/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the 2nd serve. Carlos broke Lopez San Martin 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sanchez Jover started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Carlos has a composed 15-9 win-loss record in 2023, 11-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | De Jong | Sanchez Jover |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 33 |
| Pts | 127-71 | 124-87 |
| Total Points | 198 | 211 |
| Winners | 46 | 44 |
| %Winners | 36% | 35% |
Both De Jong and Sanchez Jover played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, De Jong and Sanchez Jover have played the same amount of sets 4. However, De Jong played 3 games less than Sanchez Jover. De Jong scored 46 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard blasted 44 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | De Jong | Sanchez Jover |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 3.5 | 1 |
| 1st in | 59/85 | 66/107 |
| %1st in | 69% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 46/59 | 44/66 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 21/26 | 26/41 |
| %2nd pts | 81% | 63% |
De Jong bagged 7 aces (3.5 per match). Sanchez Jover scored 2 aces (1 per match). De Jong won 78% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 81% of the points. On the other side, Sanchez Jover won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | De Jong | Sanchez Jover |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 8 | 9 |
| Converted | 8/14 | 9/14 |
| % Converted | 57% | 64% |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
De Jong broke his opponents 8 times with a 57% conversion rate. Jesper extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Sanchez Jover broke his opponents 9 times with a 64% conversion rate. Carlos conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| De Jong | ||||
| Q1 Martinez Martinez |
Q3 Martinez Gomez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 17 | 30 | |
| pts | 58-25 | 69-46 | 127-71 | |
| Total points | 83 | 115 | 198 | |
| Winners | 22 | 24 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 35% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/36 | 32/49 | 59/85 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 65% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 24/32 | 46/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 75% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/9 | 14/17 | 21/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 82% | 81% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 3/7 | 8/14 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 43% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sanchez Jover | ||||
| Q1 Jorda Sanchis |
Q3 Lopez San Martin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 | 33 | |
| pts | 59-40 | 65-47 | 124-87 | |
| Total points | 99 | 112 | 211 | |
| Winners | 20 | 24 | 44 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 37% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 26/50 | 40/57 | 66/107 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 70% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 20/26 | 24/40 | 44/66 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 60% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 11/17 | 26/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 65% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/8 | 9/14 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 63% | 64% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 4/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 67% | 84% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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