Bernard Tomic and Toby Samuel will face off in the qualifications of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Toby Samuel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Toby Samuel is the pick to win this match.
Toby Samuel -> 1.87
Bernard Tomic -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Bernard Tomic vs. Toby Samuel
There is no head to head record between Bernard Tomic and Toby Samuel since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Bernard Tomic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-23 | 29-17 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-27 | 35-19 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-12 | 24-7 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 9-12 | 4-4 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 296, the Australian got to the qualifications after defeating Calum Puttergill 6-1 7-64.
In the qualifications, Tomic had a good straight sets win against Puttergill (6-1 7-64). During the match, Tomic scored 73 points vs Puttergill’s 57. Tomic was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tomic blasted 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Bernard Tomic was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (20/27) of his 1st serve and 53% (20/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Tomic broke Puttergill 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Tomic has good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (222-182). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Tomic has a compiled 19-22 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Tomic’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Doha.
The Australian has a composed 31-19 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Tomic has never competed in this tournament before.
Toby Samuel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-14 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 8-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-5 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 5-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 428 (career-high), Toby reached the qualifications after beating Bryce Nakashima 6-3 7-64.
In the qualifications, Toby had a good straight sets win against Nakashima (6-3 7-64). During the match Samuel scored 83 points vs Nakashima’s 76. Samuel was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Samuel recorded 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Toby Samuel was very efficient on serve to win 72% (26/36) of his 1st serve and 61% (22/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Samuel broke Nakashima twice after converting 13% of his break points (2/15).
Toby’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Nottingham and M25 Aldershot.
Toby has a composed 18-9 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tomic | Samuel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 22 |
| Pts | 73-57 | 83-76 |
| Total Points | 130 | 159 |
| Winners | 20 | 26 |
| %Winners | 27% | 31% |
Both Tomic and Samuel played 1 match. 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, Tomic and Samuel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tomic played 2 games less than Samuel. Tomic scored 20 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, The Brit managed to score 26 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tomic | Samuel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 4 |
| 1st in | 27/65 | 36/72 |
| %1st in | 42% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 26/36 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 20/38 | 22/36 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 61% |
Tomic recorded 8 aces . Samuel bagged 4 aces . Tomic won 74% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Samuel won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tomic | Samuel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 2/15 |
| % Converted | 50% | 13% |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 40% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Bernard broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Tomic surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. Toby broke his opponent twice with a 13% conversion rate. Toby conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tomic | |||
| Q1 Puttergill |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 73-57 | 73-57 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 27/65 | 27/65 | |
| % 1st in | 42% | 42% | |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 20/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/38 | 20/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Samuel | |||
| Q1 Nakashima |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 83-76 | 83-76 | |
| Total points | 159 | 159 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 36/72 | 36/72 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 26/36 | 26/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/36 | 22/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/15 | 2/15 | |
| Converted % | 13% | 13% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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