Akira Santillan and Alex Barrena will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Salzburg Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Barrena who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Barrena is the pick to win this match.
Alex Barrena -> 1.87
Akira Santillan -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Akira Santillan vs. Alex Barrena
There is no head to head record between Akira Santillan and Alex Barrena since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Akira Santillan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-33 | 11-13 | 21-14 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-28 | 28-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 20-15 | 2-5 | 12-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-6 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 402, Akira reached the 1st round after defeating Jason Taylor 6-1 6-1 and Vladyslav Orlov 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Orlov (6-3 6-1). During the match, Santillan scored 60 points vs Orlov’s 36. Akira was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Santillan managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Akira Santillan was very effective on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Santillan broke Orlov 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 63% of the points he played.
Santillan has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (263-196). 18-10 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Santillan has an overall 67-59 match record in the last years on clay.
Akira’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Portimao.
Santillan has an overall 25-20 win-loss record in 2023, 18-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Salzburg Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Barrena
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-16 | 0-0 | 17-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-30 | 0-0 | 51-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-19 | 2-1 | 26-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-24 | 1-5 | 10-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-7 | 0-2 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 447, the Argentine reached the 1st round after defeating Matthias Ujvary 6-2 6-3 and Peter Gojowczyk 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Barrena had a good straight sets win against Gojowczyk (6-3 6-3). During the match Barrena scored 71 points vs Gojowczyk’s 45. Barrena was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Barrena bagged 4 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alex Barrena was quite efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of his 1st serve and 83% (10/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Barrena broke Gojowczyk 3 times after converting 20% of his break points (3/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Barrena started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 62% of the points he played.
Alex’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M15 Warmbad Villach.
The Argentine has a compiled 32-15 win-loss record in 2023, 32-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Santillan | Barrena |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 35 |
| Pts | 121-70 | 128-78 |
| Total Points | 191 | 206 |
| Winners | 55 | 47 |
| %Winners | 45% | 37% |
Both Santillan and Barrena played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Santillan and Barrena have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Santillan played 5 games less than Barrena. Akira scored 55 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Alex fired 47 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Santillan | Barrena |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 4.5 | 3 |
| 1st in | 72/98 | 58/82 |
| %1st in | 73% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 55/72 | 47/58 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 20/24 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 83% |
Santillan recorded 9 aces (4.5 per match). Barrena blasted 6 aces (3 per match). Santillan won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Barrena won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 83% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Santillan | Barrena |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 8 |
| Converted | 10/20 | 8/22 |
| % Converted | 50% | 36% |
| Conceded | 9 | 2 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 89% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Akira broke his opponents 10 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Australian surrendered his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. Alex broke his opponents 8 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Santillan | ||||
| Q1 Taylor |
Q3 Orlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 16 | 30 | |
| pts | 61-34 | 60-36 | 121-70 | |
| Total points | 95 | 96 | 191 | |
| Winners | 29 | 26 | 55 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 43% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 36/50 | 36/48 | 72/98 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 75% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 26/36 | 55/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 72% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/14 | 9/12 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 75% | 58% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/8 | 10/20 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 63% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 5/6 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 83% | 92% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Barrena | ||||
| Q1 Ujvary |
Q3 Gojowczyk |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 18 | 35 | |
| pts | 57-33 | 71-45 | 128-78 | |
| Total points | 90 | 116 | 206 | |
| Winners | 20 | 27 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 38% | 37% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/39 | 31/43 | 58/82 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 72% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 27/31 | 47/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 87% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/12 | 10/12 | 20/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 83% | 83% | 83% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 3/15 | 8/22 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 20% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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