Lucas Pouille and Alex Molcan will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Open 13 Provence for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucas Pouille who should win in 2 sets.
Lucas Pouille -> 1.38
Alex Molcan -> 3.15
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Prediction and head to head Lucas Pouille vs. Alex Molcan
There is no head to head record between Lucas Pouille and Alex Molcan since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Lucas Pouille
Ranked no. 81, the French player will start his run in Marseille after he played his last match in Montpellier where he lost 7-6(6) 6-2 to Bonzi in the 1st round on the 23rd of February.
Lucas has a 1-3 win-loss record in 2021, 1-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Lucas has an overall 291-195 record. He has a positive 63-43 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Marseille
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2017 and 2018. See his history.
Alex Molcan
Ranked no. 286, the Slovakian reached the 1st round after beating Antoine Hoang 6-3 3-6 7-66 and Ernests Gulbis 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Gulbis (6-2 6-4). During the match Molcan scored 61 points vs Gulbis’s 41. The Slovakian was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Molcan scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Alex Molcan was pretty efficient on serve to win 88% (28/32) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alex broke Gulbis 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Slovakian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Slovakian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Gran Canaria 1 Challenger.
The Slovakian has a 12-5 win-loss record in 2021, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Marseille
- Hugo GastonGaston – Dennis NovakNovak (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 4-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (7-63 6-75 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Feliciano LopezLopez (5-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kei NishikoriNishikori – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matthew EbdenEbden – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PouillePouille – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Constant LestienneLestienne (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Petros TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GastonGaston – Jannik SinnerSinner (0-0) – H2H and prediction