Shuichi Sekiguchi and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3 pm on Court 7. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves who should win in 2 sets.
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves -> 1.151
Shuichi Sekiguchi -> 5.1
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Prediction and head to head Shuichi Sekiguchi vs. Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves
There is no head to head record between Shuichi Sekiguchi and Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Shuichi Sekiguchi
Ranked no. 274, the Japanese reached the 2nd round after beating Dragos Dima 7-5 7-66.
In the 1st round, Shuichi had a good straight sets win against Dima (7-5 7-66). During the match Sekiguchi scored 91 points vs Dima’s 82. Sekiguchi was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sekiguchi bagged 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Shuichi Sekiguchi was exceptionally efficent on serve to win 77% (36/47) of his 1st serve and 52% (23/44) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Shuichi was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Dima 3 times.
Sekiguchi has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (328-216). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sekiguchi has a 25-21 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Sekiguchi has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Sibiu Challenger
Shuichi didn’t play in the Sibiu Challenger in 2019.
Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves
Ranked no. 316 (career high), Meligeni Rodrigues Alves got to the 2nd round after defeating Ergi Kirkin 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Felipe had a good straight sets win against Kirkin (6-4 6-3). During the match Meligeni Rodrigues Alves scored 63 points vs Kirkin’s 45. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves was pretty efficent on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Meligeni Rodrigues Alves broke Kirkin 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Felipe’s best result of the year was reaching the semi-finals in the Punta Del Este Challenger.
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves has a 10-5 win-loss record in 2020, 10-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Sibiu Challenger
Meligeni Rodrigues Alves didn’t play in the Sibiu Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sekiguchi | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 19 |
| Pts | 91-82 | 63-45 |
| Total Points | 173 | 108 |
| Winners | 36 | 22 |
| %Winners | 40% | 35% |
Both Sekiguchi and Meligeni Rodrigues Alves played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sekiguchi and Meligeni Rodrigues Alves have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sekiguchi played 6 games more than Meligeni Rodrigues Alves. Shuichi scored 36 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Felipe recorded 22 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sekiguchi | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 47/91 | 31/52 |
| %1st in | 52% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 36/47 | 22/31 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 23/44 | 14/21 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 67% |
Sekiguchi scored 5 aces . Meligeni Rodrigues Alves fired 2 aces . Sekiguchi won 77% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Meligeni Rodrigues Alves won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sekiguchi | Meligeni Rodrigues Alves |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 100% | 80% |
| Conceded | 11 | 2 |
| Saved | 9 | 1 |
| % Saved | 82% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Sekiguchi broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Japanese lost his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded. Felipe broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Felipe conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sekiguchi | |||
| R1 Dima | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 91-82 | 91-82 | |
| Total points | 173 | 173 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 47/91 | 47/91 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 36/47 | 36/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/44 | 23/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Meligeni Rodrigues Alves | |||
| R1 Kirkin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 63-45 | 63-45 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/52 | 31/52 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 14/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Sibiu Challenger
- Corentin DenollyDenolly – Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy (6-3 5-7 6-0) – See score progression
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Dragos DimaDima (7-5 7-66) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Lucas MiedlerMiedler (6-4 7-61) – See score progression
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Orlando LuzLuz – Vlad Victor CorneaVictor Cornea (6-1 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Inigo CervantesCervantes – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Johannes HaerteisHaerteis – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Kacper ZukZuk (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Mathieu PerchicotPerchicot (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Quentin HalysHalys (7-63 4-6 7-62) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Orlando LuzLuz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Inigo CervantesCervantes – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Corentin DenollyDenolly (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi – Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Roberto Ortega-OlmedoOrtega-Olmedo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-1) – H2H and prediction