Tomas Machac and Maximilian Marterer will play each other in the 2nd round of the Nur-Sultan 1 Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.
Tomas Machac -> 1.66
Maximilian Marterer -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Maximilian Marterer
This will be the 2nd time that Tomas Machac and Maximilian Marterer face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Marterer (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Marterer won 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5 in the final in the Bratislava Challenger back in 2020.
Tomas Machac
Ranked no. 173 (career high), the Czech reached the 2nd round after defeating Evgeny Donskoy 6-3 3-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Czech defeated Donskoy (6-3 3-6 6-1). During the match Machac scored 88 points vs Donskoy’s 74. Machac was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Machac fired 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tomas Machac was quite effective on serve to win 75% (36/48) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Tomas broke Donskoy 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
Machac has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 68% of his matches (99-47). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Machac has a 34-14 win-loss record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
The Czech has a 5-2 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sultan 1 Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Maximilian Marterer
Ranked no. 206, the German reached the 2nd round after beating Peter Polansky 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Maximilian had a good straight sets win against Polansky (6-3 6-4). During the match Marterer scored 67 points vs Polansky’s 49. The German was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Marterer made 5 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Maximilian Marterer was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Maximilian broke Polansky 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Marterer has a 5-4 win-loss record in 2021, 4-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Machac | Marterer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 19 |
| Pts | 88-74 | 67-49 |
| Total Points | 162 | 116 |
| Winners | 36 | 26 |
| %Winners | 41% | 39% |
Both Machac and Marterer played 1 match. At the moment, Tomas Machac conceded 1 set while Maximilian Marterer hasn’t dropped a set so far. Machac has played 1 set more than Marterer (3 vs 2). Therefore, Machac played 6 games more than Marterer. Tomas scored 36 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Maximilian recorded 26 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Machac | Marterer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 5 |
| 1st in | 48/71 | 34/59 |
| %1st in | 68% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 36/48 | 26/34 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 16/25 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 64% |
Machac fired 11 aces . Marterer blasted 5 aces . Machac won 75% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Marterer won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Machac | Marterer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/14 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 29% | 60% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Czech broke his opponent 4 times with a 29% conversion rate. Tomas dropped his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Marterer broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Marterer conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Machac | |||
| R1 Donskoy | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 88-74 | 88-74 | |
| Total points | 162 | 162 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 48/71 | 48/71 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 36/48 | 36/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/14 | 4/14 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Marterer | |||
| R1 Polansky | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 67-49 | 67-49 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/59 | 34/59 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Sultan 1 Challenger
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- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Pavel KotovKotov (6-1 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kacper ZukZuk – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 4-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Denis IstominIstomin (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Tomas MachacMachac (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – H2H and prediction