Taro Daniel and Borna Gojo will square off in the 1st round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Borna Gojo who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Borna Gojo is the pick to win this match.
Borna Gojo -> 1.74
Taro Daniel -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Borna Gojo
There is no head to head record between Taro Daniel and Borna Gojo since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Taro Daniel
Ranked no. 120, Daniel will start his run in the Istanbul Challenger after he played his last match in Sardinia where he lost 6-3 2-6 6-4 to Arnaboldi in the qualifications the 10th of October.
Taro has a 12-13 win-loss record in 2020, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Daniel’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Burnie Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Taro has an overall 416-294 record. He has positive 119-96 record on hard.
Last year in the Istanbul Challenger
The Japanese didn’t compete in the Istanbul Challenger in 2019.
Borna Gojo
Ranked no. 256 (career high), Borna reached the 1st round after beating Cengiz Aksu 7-5 7-5 and Andrea Arnaboldi 6-76 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications against Arnaboldi, Borna recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-76 6-3 6-2). During the match Gojo scored 97 points vs Arnaboldi’s 76. The Croatian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 46 winners.
Talking about serving, Gojo struck 14 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Borna Gojo was pretty effective on serve to win 82% (46/56) of his 1st serve and 64% (21/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Croatian broke Arnaboldi 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Croatian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Croatian’s best result of the season was getting to the semi-finals in the Split Challenger.
Borna has a 20-12 win-loss record in 2020, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Istanbul Challenger
Gojo didn’t compete in the Istanbul Challenger in 2019.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Alexey VatutinVatutin (2-6 7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Viktor GalovicGalovic (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-76 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
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