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.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tomas Machac is the pick to win this match.
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.

Sultan 1 Challenger
Machac's Record

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).

Sultan 1 Challenger
Marterer's Record

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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