Jiri Lehecka and Jelle Sels will fight against each other in the qualifications of the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:30 am on COURT 2. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jiri Lehecka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jiri Lehecka is the pick to win this match.
Jiri Lehecka -> 1.76
Jelle Sels -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Jiri Lehecka vs. Jelle Sels
There is no head to head record between Jiri Lehecka and Jelle Sels since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Jiri Lehecka
Ranked no. 328 (career high), the Czech reached the qualifications after beating Ivan Nedelko 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Nedelko (6-1 6-3). During the match Lehecka scored 64 points vs Nedelko’s 42. The Czech was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Lehecka fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Jiri Lehecka lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Lehecka put 68% of his first serves in, winning 81% (26/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. Jiri broke Nedelko 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Lehecka has a winning win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 59% of his matches (57-39). 2-1 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Lehecka has a 9-7 match record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
The Czech’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm El Sheikh.
Lehecka has a 12-3 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Petersburg 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Jelle Sels
Ranked no. 336, Sels got to the qualifications after defeating Andrey Kuznetsov 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Jelle had a good straight sets win against Kuznetsov (6-4 6-3). During the match Sels scored 77 points vs Kuznetsov’s 61. Sels was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Sels scored 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jelle Sels lost the serve 4 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Sels put 61% of his first serves in, winning 60% (21/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Sels broke Kuznetsov 7 times after converting 37% of his break points (7/19).
Jelle has a 6-4 win-loss record in 2021, 5-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Lehecka | Sels |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 |
| Pts | 64-42 | 77-61 |
| Total Points | 106 | 138 |
| Winners | 26 | 21 |
| %Winners | 41% | 27% |
Both Lehecka and Sels played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Lehecka and Sels have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Lehecka played 3 games less than Sels. Lehecka scored 26 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch struck 21 winners (27%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Lehecka | Sels |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 3 |
| 1st in | 32/47 | 35/57 |
| %1st in | 68% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 21/35 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 6/15 | 10/22 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 45% |
Lehecka scored 5 aces . Sels scored 3 aces . Lehecka won 81% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Sels won 60% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Lehecka | Sels |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 7/19 |
| % Converted | 56% | 37% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 20% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Lehecka broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Lehecka dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Sels broke his opponent 7 times with a 37% conversion rate. Jelle conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 20% of the break points that he conceded.
| Lehecka | |||
| Q1 Nedelko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 64-42 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 32/47 | 32/47 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/15 | 6/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sels | |||
| Q1 Kuznetsov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 77-61 | 77-61 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/57 | 35/57 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 21/35 | 21/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/19 | 7/19 | |
| Converted % | 37% | 37% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 1/5 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 20% | 20% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
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