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H2H, PREDICTION Tomas Machac vs Maximilian Marterer | Bratislava Challenger odds, preview, pick

PREVIEW. Bratislava Challenger. Machac and Marterer will square off in the final of the Bratislava Challenger. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their upcoming match

Mark Hall

15 November 2020

Tomas Machac and Maximilian Marterer will square off in the final of the Bratislava Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Maximilian Marterer who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maximilian Marterer is the pick to win this match.
Maximilian Marterer -> 1.82
Tomas Machac -> 1.99

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Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Maximilian Marterer

There is no head to head record between Tomas Machac and Maximilian Marterer since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Tomas Machac

Ranked no. 215, Tomas got to the final after defeating Michal Novansky 6-0 6-1, Mats Rosenkranz 6-3 7-6⁶, Brayden Schnur 6-4 6-4, Kamil Majchrzak 7-5 6-7⁵ 6-1, Matteo Viola 6-2 6-4 and Lukas Klein 7-6⁵ 6-2.

In the semifinal, Machac had a good straight sets win against Klein (7-6⁵ 6-2). During the match Machac scored 60 points vs Klein’s 53. The Czech was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Machac recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Tomas Machac was pretty effective on serve to win 83% (35/42) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tomas was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Klein twice.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Machac has lost 1 set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.

Machac has a solid record in the last 4 years having won 68% of his matches (92-44). 13-3 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Machac has a 31-12 win-loss record in the last 4 years on indoor hard courts.

Machac’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Koblenz Challenger.

Tomas has a 25-10 win-loss record in 2020, 13-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Bratislava Challenger

Tomas didn’t play in the Bratislava Challenger in 2019.

Maximilian Marterer

Ranked no. 242, Maximilian reached the final after beating Julian Lenz 7-5 6-4, Blaz Rola 7-6⁴ 6-2, Sergiy Stakhovsky w/o and Antoine Hoang 6-3 6-4.

In the semifinal, Maximilian had a good straight sets win against Hoang (6-3 6-4). During the match Marterer scored 64 points vs Hoang’s 49. The German was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Marterer managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Maximilian Marterer was quite efficent on serve to win 77% (30/39) of his 1st serve and 75% (12/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maximilian broke Hoang twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Maximilian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

Maximilian’s best result of the season was reaching the semi-finals in the Bratislava Challenger.

Maximilian has a 18-13 win-loss record in 2020, 7-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Machac	Marterer
Match played	6	3
Tot Set	13	6
Tot Games	126	62
Pts	424-339	201-154
Total Points	763	355
Winners	206	102
%Winners	49%	51%

Machac played 6 matches while Marterer competed in 3 matches. Machac started his run from the qualifications while Marterer had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Tomas Machac surrendered 1 set while Maximilian Marterer hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Machac has played 7 sets more than Marterer (13 vs 6). Therefore, Machac played 64 games more than Marterer. The Czech scored 206 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, The German managed to score 102 winners (51%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Machac	Marterer
Aces	42	31
Avg per match	7	10.3
1st in	261/369	126/169
%1st in	71%	75%
1st pts	206/261	102/126
%1st pts	79%	81%
2nd pts	60/108	32/43
%2nd pts	56%	74%

Machac scored 42 aces (7 per match). Marterer fired 31 aces (10.3 per match). Machac won 79% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Marterer won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Machac	Marterer
Won	21	6
Converted	21/47	6/15
% Converted	45%	40%
Conceded	13	3
Saved	9	3
% Saved	69%	100%
Times Broken	4	0

The Czech broke his opponents 21 times with a 45% conversion rate. Tomas conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded. The German broke his opponents 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. The German was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

	Q1 Novansky	Q3 Rosenkranz	R1 Schnur	R2 Majchrzak	1/4 Viola	1/2 Klein	Total
Machac
Score	6-0 6-1	6-3 7-6⁶	6-4 6-4	7-5 6-7⁵ 6-1	6-2 6-4	7-6⁵ 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	3	2	2	13
Tot Games	13	22	20	32	18	21	126
pts	53-19	76-64	62-56	110-102	63-45	60-53	424-339
Total points	72	140	118	212	108	113	763
Winners	19	39	32	51	30	35	206
%Winners	36%	51%	52%	46%	48%	58%	49%
SERVE
Aces	2	7	11	16	4	2	42
Double Faults	1	1	1	3	0	1	7
1st in	22/27	48/69	43/55	68/104	38/53	42/61	261/369
% 1st in	81%	70%	78%	65%	72%	69%	71%
1st pts	19/22	39/48	32/43	51/68	30/38	35/42	206/261
% 1st pts	86%	81%	74%	75%	79%	83%	79%
2nd pts	2/5	13/21	9/12	15/36	9/15	12/19	60/108
% 2nd pts	40%	62%	75%	42%	60%	63%	56%
Breaks
Won	7	1	2	6	3	2	21
Converted	7/12	1/6	2/6	6/14	3/7	2/2	21/47
Converted %	58%	17%	33%	43%	43%	100%	45%
Conceded	1	2	0	7	2	1	13
Saved	0/1	2/2	0/0	4/7	2/2	1/1	9
Saved %	0%	100%	–	57%	100%	100%	60%
Times Broken	1	0	0	3	0	0	4

	R1 Lenz	R2 Rola	1/4 Stakhovsky	1/2 Hoang	Total
Marterer
Score	7-5 6-4	7-6⁴ 6-2	w/o	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	1	2	7
Tot Games	22	21	0	19	62
pts	68-54	69-51	–	64-49	201-154
Total points	122	120	0	113	355
Winners	36	36		30	102
%Winners	53%	52%	NAN%	47%	51%
SERVE
Aces	15	8	0	8	31
Double Faults	0	1		1	2
1st in	46/57	41/57	/	39/55	126/169
% 1st in	81%	72%	NAN%	71%	75%
1st pts	36/46	36/41	/	30/39	102/126
% 1st pts	78%	88%	NAN%	77%	81%
2nd pts	9/11	11/16	/	12/16	32/43
% 2nd pts	82%	69%	NAN%	75%	74%
Breaks
Won	2	2		2	6
Converted	2/5	2/4	/	2/6	6/15
Converted %	40%	50%	NAN%	33%	40%
Conceded	2	1		0	3
Saved	2/2	1/1	0/	0/0	3
Saved %	100%	100%	–	–	33%
Times Broken	0	0		0	0