Zizou Bergs and Igor Sijsling will play each other in the qualifications of the Rome 2 Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:00 pm on CAMPO 3. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zizou Bergs who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zizou Bergs is the pick to win this match.
Zizou Bergs -> 1.76
Igor Sijsling -> 2.02
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Prediction and head to head Zizou Bergs vs. Igor Sijsling
This will be the 2nd time that Zizou Bergs and Igor Sijsling clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sijsling (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sijsling won 7-5 7-5 in the qualifications in the St. Brieuc Challenger back in 2018.
Zizou Bergs
Ranked no. 264 (career high), Zizou reached the qualifications after defeating Duje Ajdukovic 6-2 5-7 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Belgian defeated Ajdukovic (6-2 5-7 6-4). During the match Bergs scored 92 points vs Ajdukovic’s 81. Bergs was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bergs managed to score 5 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Zizou Bergs was very efficient on serve to win 78% (39/50) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Zizou broke Ajdukovic 4 times after converting 24% of his break points (4/17).
Bergs has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 62% of his matches (92-56). 1-1 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bergs has a 23-22 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Belgian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger and the Lille Challenger.
Zizou has a 20-6 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rome 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
Igor Sijsling
Ranked no. 308, Sijsling reached the qualifications after defeating Alexey Vatutin 6-3 6-0.
In the qualifications, Sijsling had a good straight sets win against Vatutin (6-3 6-0). During the match Sijsling scored 62 points vs Vatutin’s 37. Sijsling was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Sijsling bagged 6 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Igor Sijsling was very effective on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Igor broke Vatutin 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Igor has a 5-7 win-loss record in 2021, 3-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bergs | Sijsling |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 15 |
| Pts | 92-81 | 62-37 |
| Total Points | 173 | 99 |
| Winners | 39 | 24 |
| %Winners | 42% | 39% |
Both Bergs and Sijsling played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Zizou Bergs surrendered 1 set while Igor Sijsling hasn’t dropped a set so far. Bergs has played 1 set more than Sijsling (3 vs 2). Therefore, Bergs played 15 games more than Sijsling. The Belgian scored 39 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch bagged 24 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bergs | Sijsling |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 50/75 | 31/57 |
| %1st in | 67% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 39/50 | 24/31 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 14/26 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 54% |
Bergs scored 5 aces . Sijsling recorded 6 aces . Bergs won 78% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Sijsling won 77% 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 | Bergs | Sijsling |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/17 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 24% | 45% |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Zizou broke his opponent 4 times with a 24% conversion rate. The Belgian surrendered his serve twice and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Sijsling broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Dutch conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Bergs | |||
| Q1 Ajdukovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 5-7 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 92-81 | 92-81 | |
| Total points | 173 | 173 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 50/75 | 50/75 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 39/50 | 39/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/25 | 16/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/17 | 4/17 | |
| Converted % | 24% | 24% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sijsling | |||
| Q1 Vatutin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 62-37 | 62-37 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 31/57 | 31/57 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/26 | 14/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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