Roberto Carballes Baena and Blaz Rola will fight against each other in the quarter of the Belgrade Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roberto Carballes Baena who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roberto Carballes Baena is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Carballes Baena -> 1.80
Blaz Rola -> 1.90
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Prediction and head to head Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Blaz Rola
This will be the 2nd time that Roberto Carballes Baena and Blaz Rola play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rola (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Rola won 7-6(3) 0-6 6-2 in the quarter in the Liberec Challenger back in 2014.
Roberto Carballes Baena
Ranked no. 105, Roberto got to the quarter after defeating Arthur Rinderknech 6-4 7-64 and Marco Trungelliti 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Carballes Baena had a good straight sets win against Trungelliti (6-2 6-4). During the match Carballes Baena scored 66 points vs Trungelliti’s 45. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Carballes Baena wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Roberto Carballes Baena lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Carballes Baena put 86% of his first serves in, winning 61% (31/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (3/8) on the 2nd serve. Carballes Baena broke Trungelliti 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Carballes Baena has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (397-269). 6-6 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Carballes Baena has a 357-220 record in the last years on clay.
Roberto has a 7-8 win-loss record in 2021, 6-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Belgrade Challenger
Carballes Baena has never competed in this tournament before.
Blaz Rola
Ranked no. 147, Blaz reached the quarter after defeating Alessandro Giannessi 6-4 2-0 ret. and Benjamin Bonzi 6-2 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Blaz had a good straight sets win against Bonzi (6-2 6-2). During the match Rola scored 62 points vs Bonzi’s 45. Blaz was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Rola recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Blaz Rola was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovenian broke Bonzi 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Rola’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Split 1 Challenger.
The Slovenian has a 12-9 win-loss record in 2021, 7-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Carballes Baena | Rola |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 41 | 28 |
| Pts | 150-119 | 111-81 |
| Total Points | 269 | 192 |
| Winners | 72 | 48 |
| %Winners | 48% | 43% |
Both Carballes Baena and Rola played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Carballes Baena has played 1 set(s) less than Rola (4 vs 5). However, it’s interesting to notice that Carballes Baena played 13 games more than Rola. The Spaniard scored 72 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Blaz fired 48 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Carballes Baena | Rola |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 2 |
| 1st in | 113/135 | 65/104 |
| %1st in | 84% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 72/113 | 48/65 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 12/22 | 21/39 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 54% |
Carballes Baena didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Rola scored 4 aces (2 per match). Carballes Baena won 64% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Rola won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Carballes Baena | Rola |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 7 |
| Converted | 9/18 | 7/12 |
| % Converted | 50% | 58% |
| Conceded | 14 | 12 |
| Saved | 9 | 11 |
| % Saved | 64% | 92% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
Roberto broke his opponents 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. Carballes Baena dropped his serve 5 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. Blaz broke his opponents 7 times with a 58% conversion rate. Blaz conceded his serve once and he saved 92% of the break points that he conceded.
| Carballes Baena | ||||
| R1 Rinderknech |
R2 Trungelliti |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-64 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 18 | 41 | |
| pts | 84-74 | 66-45 | 150-119 | |
| Total points | 158 | 111 | 269 | |
| Winners | 41 | 31 | 72 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 47% | 48% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 62/76 | 51/59 | 113/135 | |
| % 1st in | 82% | 86% | 84% | |
| 1st pts | 41/62 | 31/51 | 72/113 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 61% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 3/8 | 12/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 38% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 6/10 | 9/18 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 60% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 8 | 14 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 5/8 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 63% | 65% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Rola | ||||
| R1 Giannessi |
R2 Bonzi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 2-0 ret. | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 16 | 28 | |
| pts | 49-36 | 62-45 | 111-81 | |
| Total points | 85 | 107 | 192 | |
| Winners | 22 | 26 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 42% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 35/55 | 65/104 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 64% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 26/35 | 48/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 12/20 | 21/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 60% | 54% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/8 | 7/12 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 50% | 58% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 | 12 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 5/5 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 100% | 93% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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