Norbert Gombos and Shintaro Mochizuki will square off in the 2nd round of the Prague 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Norbert Gombos who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Norbert Gombos is the pick to win this match.
Norbert Gombos -> 1.666
Shintaro Mochizuki -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Norbert Gombos vs. Shintaro Mochizuki
There is no head to head record between Norbert Gombos and Shintaro Mochizuki since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Norbert Gombos
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-23 | 13-3 | 10-13 | 0-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-23 | 2-4 | 11-10 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-28 | 7-3 | 28-17 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-30 | 0-9 | 13-10 | 12-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-11 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 133, Norbert reached the 2nd round after beating Rudolf Molleker 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Gombos had a good straight sets win against Molleker (6-4 6-4). During the match, Gombos scored 69 points vs Molleker’s 62. Gombos was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gombos managed to score 7 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Norbert Gombos conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Gombos put 70% of his first serves in, winning 69% (34/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the 2nd serve. Norbert broke Molleker twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Gombos has positive record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (324-267). 6-2 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Gombos has an aggregate 131-101 match record in the last years on clay.
Norbert’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Split Challenger.
Gombos has a compiled 10-7 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Prague 2 Challenger
Shintaro Mochizuki
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-32 | 17-21 | 7-5 | 0-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-33 | 22-16 | 13-8 | 2-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-34 | 18-17 | 13-12 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-30 | 11-10 | 18-11 | 5-7 | 1-1 | 0-1 |
| 2020 | 20-14 | 14-12 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 213 (career-high), Shintaro got to the 2nd round after beating Michael Vrbensky 7-5 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Vrbensky (7-5 6-3). During the match Mochizuki scored 66 points vs Vrbensky’s 52. Shintaro was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Mochizuki scored 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Shintaro Mochizuki was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Shintaro broke Vrbensky 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Barletta Challenger where he overcame Santiago Rodriguez Taverna in the final 6-1 6-4.
Shintaro has an aggregate 23-14 win-loss record in 2023, 10-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gombos | Mochizuki |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 21 |
| Pts | 69-62 | 66-52 |
| Total Points | 131 | 118 |
| Winners | 34 | 24 |
| %Winners | 49% | 36% |
Both Gombos and Mochizuki played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gombos and Mochizuki have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gombos played 1 game less than Mochizuki. Norbert scored 34 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese blasted 24 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gombos | Mochizuki |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 49/70 | 32/56 |
| %1st in | 70% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 34/49 | 24/32 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 14/24 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 58% |
Gombos fired 7 aces . Mochizuki struck 3 aces . Gombos won 69% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Mochizuki won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gombos | Mochizuki |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 29% | 44% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Norbert broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. The Slovakian had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Shintaro broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Mochizuki conceded his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gombos | |||
| R1 Molleker |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 69-62 | 69-62 | |
| Total points | 131 | 131 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 49/70 | 49/70 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 34/49 | 34/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Mochizuki | |||
| R1 Vrbensky |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 66-52 | 66-52 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 32/56 | 32/56 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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