Marcos Giron and Roberto Marcora will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Indian Wells Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on COURT 15. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marcos Giron who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marcos Giron is the pick to win this match.
Marcos Giron -> 1.53
Roberto Marcora -> 2.37
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Prediction and head to head Marcos Giron vs. Roberto Marcora
There is no head to head record between Marcos Giron and Roberto Marcora since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Marcos Giron
Ranked no. 104, Giron reached the 3rd round after defeating Ryan Peniston 6-2 7-64.
In the 2nd round, The American had a good straight sets win against Peniston (6-2 7-64). During the match Giron scored 74 points vs Peniston’s 59. Giron was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Giron blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marcos Giron lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Giron put 64% of his first serves in, winning 66% (31/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Peniston 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Giron has a unfavourable record in the last 9 years having won 36% of his matches (1209-678). 7-5 on hard in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Giron has a 248-157 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Giron’s best result of the current year was getting to the semi-finals in the Bendigo Challenger.
Giron has a 8-6 win-loss record in 2020, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Indian Wells Challenger
The American lost in the 1st round 7-5 6-3 to Christopher Eubanks.
Roberto Marcora
Ranked no. 163, Marcora reached the 3rd round after defeating Gage Brymer 6-4 6-3 and Romain Arneodo 4-6 6-1 7-68.
In the 2nd round against Arneodo, The Italian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 7-68). During the match Marcora scored 105 points vs Arneodo’s 87. Roberto was extremely aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about serving, Marcora blasted 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Roberto Marcora was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (46/62) of his 1st serve and 63% (20/32) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Italian broke Arneodo 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Roberto has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Marcora has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (373-220). 10-4 on hard in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Marcora has a 368-231 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Marcora’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Cherbourg Challenger.
The Italian has a 16-6 win-loss record in 2020, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Indian Wells Challenger
Marcora didn’t compete in the Indian Wells Challenger in 2019.
Live score
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Giron | Marcora |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 2 |
Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
Tot Games | 21 | 49 |
Pts | 74-59 | 170-136 |
Total Points | 133 | 306 |
Winners | 31 | 73 |
%Winners | 42% | 43% |
Giron played 1 match while Marcora competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Roberto Marcora conceded 1 set while Marcos Giron hasn’t lost a set so far. Giron has played 3 sets less than Marcora (2 vs 5). Therefore, Giron played 28 games less than Marcora. Marcos scored 31 winners (42% on total points). On the other side, Marcora blasted 73 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Giron | Marcora |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 16 |
Avg per match | 4 | 8 |
1st in | 47/74 | 97/153 |
%1st in | 64% | 63% |
1st pts | 31/47 | 73/97 |
%1st pts | 66% | 75% |
2nd pts | 15/27 | 33/56 |
%2nd pts | 56% | 59% |
Giron blasted 4 aces . Marcora blasted 16 aces (8 per match). Giron won 66% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Marcora won 75% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Giron | Marcora |
---|---|---|
Won | 4 | 6 |
Converted | 4/5 | 6/11 |
% Converted | 80% | 55% |
Conceded | 7 | 10 |
Saved | 5 | 7 |
% Saved | 71% | 70% |
Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Giron broke his opponent 4 times with 80% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Roberto broke his opponents 6 times with 55% conversion rate. Marcora conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.
Giron | |||
R2 Peniston |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 7-64 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
pts | 74-59 | 74-59 | |
Total points | 133 | 133 | |
Winners | 31 | 31 | |
%Winners | 42% | 42% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 47/74 | 47/74 | |
% 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
1st pts | 31/47 | 31/47 | |
% 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
2nd pts | 15/27 | 15/27 | |
% 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 100 |
Marcora | ||||
R1 Brymer |
R2 Arneodo |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-3 | 4-6 6-1 7-68 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 30 | 49 | |
pts | 65-49 | 105-87 | 170-136 | |
Total points | 114 | 192 | 306 | |
Winners | 27 | 46 | 73 | |
%Winners | 42% | 44% | 43% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 6 | 10 | 16 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
1st in | 35/59 | 62/94 | 97/153 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 66% | 63% | |
1st pts | 27/35 | 46/62 | 73/97 | |
% 1st pts | 77% | 74% | 75% | |
2nd pts | 13/24 | 20/32 | 33/56 | |
% 2nd pts | 54% | 63% | 59% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Converted | 3/6 | 3/5 | 6/11 | |
Converted % | 50% | 60% | 55% | |
Conceded | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
Saved | 2/3 | 5/7 | 7 | |
Saved % | 67% | 71% | 138% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 50 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells Challenger
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-1 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Sem VerbeekVerbeek (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Raymond SarmientoSarmiento – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Romain ArneodoArneodo (4-6 6-1 7-68) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Mischa ZverevZverev (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Marcos GironGiron – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-2 7-64) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-5 7-66) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Noah RubinRubin – Lucas PouillePouille (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Michael MmohMmoh (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (7-64 6-0) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Ugo HumbertHumbert (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Steve JohnsonJohnson – Taro DanielDaniel (0-0) – See H2H details
- Denis KudlaKudla – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Marcos GironGiron (0-0) – See H2H details
- Raymond SarmientoSarmiento – Noah RubinRubin (1-0) – See H2H details
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jack SockSock – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (0-0) – See H2H details
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (1-0) – See H2H details
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-1) – See H2H details