Pedro Martinez Portero and Tomas Machac will fight against each other in the quarter of the Alicante Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pedro Martinez Portero who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pedro Martinez Portero is the pick to win this match.
Pedro Martinez Portero -> 1.5
Tomas Machac -> 2.59
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Prediction and head to head Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Tomas Machac
There is no head to head record between Pedro Martinez Portero and Tomas Machac since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Pedro Martinez Portero
Ranked no. 97 (career high), Pedro reached the quarter after beating Marco Trungelliti 6-4 3-0 ret. and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-4 6-0.
In the 2nd round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Garcia-Lopez (6-4 6-0). During the match Martinez Portero scored 63 points vs Garcia-Lopez’s 38. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Martinez Portero recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Pedro Martinez Portero was exceptionally efficent on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pedro broke Garcia-Lopez 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Martinez Portero has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 65% of his matches (302-162). 22-6 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Martinez Portero has a 253-123 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
Martinez Portero has a 28-11 win-loss record in 2020, 22-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Alicante Challenger
Pedro surrendered in the final to Pablo Andujar.
Tomas Machac
Ranked no. 218 (career high), Tomas reached the quarter after beating Peter Polansky 6-1 6-1 and Liam Broady 6-3 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Broady (6-3 6-2). During the match Machac scored 63 points vs Broady’s 49. Tomas was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Machac struck 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Tomas Machac lost the serve twice and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Machac put 51% of his first serves in, winning 58% (18/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Tomas broke Broady 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Machac hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Machac’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Koblenz Challenger.
Machac has a 19-8 win-loss record in 2020, 12-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Alicante Challenger
Tomas didn’t compete in the Alicante Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Martinez Portero | Machac |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 31 |
| Pts | 63-38 | 117-79 |
| Total Points | 101 | 196 |
| Winners | 27 | 39 |
| %Winners | 43% | 33% |
Martinez Portero played 1 match while Machac competed in 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Martinez Portero has played 2 set(s) less than Machac (2 vs 4). Therefore, Martinez Portero played 15 games less than Machac. Martinez Portero scored 27 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Machac managed to score 39 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Martinez Portero | Machac |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 2 |
| 1st in | 34/46 | 56/99 |
| %1st in | 74% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 39/56 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 24/43 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 56% |
Martinez Portero scored 3 aces . Machac managed to score 4 aces (2 per match). Martinez Portero won 79% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Machac won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Martinez Portero | Machac |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 11 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 11/19 |
| % Converted | 57% | 58% |
| Conceded | 1 | 14 |
| Saved | 1 | 12 |
| % Saved | 100% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Pedro broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Pedro quite strong on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Tomas broke his opponents 11 times with a 58% conversion rate. Machac conceded his serve twice and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Martinez Portero | ||||
| R1 Trungelliti |
R2 Garcia-Lopez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 3-0 ret. | 6-4 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 16 | 29 | |
| pts | 44-31 | 63-38 | 107-69 | |
| Total points | 75 | 101 | 176 | |
| Winners | 10 | 27 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 23% | 43% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 18/31 | 34/46 | 52/77 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 74% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 10/18 | 27/34 | 37/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 79% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 7/12 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 58% | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 4/7 | 9/15 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 57% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Machac | ||||
| R1 Polansky |
R2 Broady |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 17 | 31 | |
| pts | 54-30 | 63-49 | 117-79 | |
| Total points | 84 | 112 | 196 | |
| Winners | 21 | 18 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 29% | 33% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 25/38 | 31/61 | 56/99 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 51% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 18/31 | 39/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 58% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/13 | 17/30 | 24/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 57% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 6/8 | 11/19 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 75% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 14 | 14 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 12/14 | 12 | |
| Saved % | – | 86% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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