Ernests Gulbis and Roberto Marcora will play each other in the 2nd round of the Marbella Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roberto Marcora who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roberto Marcora is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Marcora -> 1.76
Ernests Gulbis -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Ernests Gulbis vs. Roberto Marcora
This will be the 2nd time that Ernests Gulbis and Roberto Marcora clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Marcora (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Marcora won 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Singapore back in February 2021.
Ernests Gulbis
Ranked no. 189, Gulbis reached the 2nd round after beating Evgeny Donskoy 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Ernests had a good straight sets win against Donskoy (6-2 6-2). During the match Gulbis scored 61 points vs Donskoy’s 40. The Latvian was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gulbis scored 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ernests Gulbis was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Latvian broke Donskoy 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Gulbis has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (220-195). 1-0 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Gulbis has a 69-65 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Latvian has a 4-6 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Marbella Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Roberto Marcora
Ranked no. 190, Roberto reached the 2nd round after defeating Marc Polmans 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Polmans (6-3 6-1). During the match Marcora scored 51 points vs Polmans’s 29. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Marcora scored 3 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Roberto Marcora was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 82% (14/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Roberto was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Polmans 4 times.
The Italian has a 4-8 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gulbis | Marcora |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 61-40 | 51-29 |
| Total Points | 101 | 80 |
| Winners | 24 | 19 |
| %Winners | 39% | 37% |
Both Gulbis and Marcora played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Gulbis and Marcora have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Ernests scored 24 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Roberto made 19 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gulbis | Marcora |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 3 |
| 1st in | 31/56 | 24/41 |
| %1st in | 55% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 19/24 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/17 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 82% |
Gulbis bagged 8 aces . Marcora managed to score 3 aces . Gulbis won 77% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Marcora won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 82% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gulbis | Marcora |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 67% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Ernests broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Gulbis pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. Marcora broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Italian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Gulbis | |||
| R1 Donskoy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-40 | 61-40 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 31/56 | 31/56 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Marcora | |||
| R1 Polmans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 51-29 | 51-29 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 24/41 | 24/41 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 19/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/17 | 14/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 82% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Marbella Challenger
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Norbert GombosGombos (6-4 6-74 6-3) – See score progression
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Lukas RosolRosol (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Elias YmerYmer – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Sebastian OfnerOfner (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero (7-610 7-65) – See score progression
- Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-64 6-0) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Leo BorgBorg (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Gianluca MagerMager – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Martin KlizanKlizan – Maxime CressyCressy (6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Pedro SousaSousa – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (6-72 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (1-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Marc PolmansPolmans (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Sebastian OfnerOfner (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Pedro SousaSousa (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Martin KlizanKlizan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Ernests GulbisGulbis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
