Mikael Torpegaard and Alex Molcan will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Oeiras 3 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am 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 Alex Molcan who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Molcan is the pick to win this match.
Alex Molcan -> 1.39
Mikael Torpegaard -> 2.9
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Prediction and head to head Mikael Torpegaard vs. Alex Molcan
There is no head to head record between Mikael Torpegaard and Alex Molcan since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Mikael Torpegaard
Ranked no. 190,he will start his run in the Oeiras 3 Challenger after he played his last match in the Oeiras 3 Challenger where he defeated 1-6 6-4 6-3 to Faria in the qualifications on the 16th of May.
Mikael has a 5-8 win-loss record in 2021, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Dane has an overall 130-74 record. He has a positive 44-18 record on clay.
Previously in the Oeiras 3 Challenger
Mikael has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Molcan
Ranked no. 260 (career high), Molcan got to the qualifications after beating Francisco Cabral 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Molcan had a good straight sets win against Cabral (6-1 6-1). During the match Molcan scored 60 points vs Cabral’s 31. Molcan was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Molcan scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Molcan was very effective on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alex broke Cabral 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Molcan’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Gran Canaria 1 Challenger.
Alex has a 22-11 win-loss record in 2021, 17-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Torpegaard | Molcan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 14 |
| Pts | 87-90 | 60-31 |
| Total Points | 177 | 91 |
| Winners | 31 | 27 |
| %Winners | 36% | 45% |
Both Torpegaard and Molcan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mikael Torpegaard conceded 1 set while Alex Molcan hasn’t conceded a set so far. Torpegaard has played 1 set more than Molcan (3 vs 2). Therefore, Torpegaard played 12 games more than Molcan. The Dane scored 31 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovakian recorded 27 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Torpegaard | Molcan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 1 |
| 1st in | 44/71 | 34/46 |
| %1st in | 62% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 31/44 | 27/34 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 10/27 | 7/12 |
| %2nd pts | 37% | 58% |
Torpegaard scored 4 aces . Molcan bagged 1 ace . Torpegaard won 70% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 37% of the points. On the other side, Molcan won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Torpegaard | Molcan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/18 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 22% | 56% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 20% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 0 |
Mikael broke his opponent 4 times with a 22% conversion rate. The Dane lost his serve 4 times and he saved 20% of the break points that he conceded. Alex broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Molcan was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Torpegaard | ||
| Total | ||
|---|---|---|
| Score | ||
| Tot Set | 0 | |
| Tot Games | 0 | |
| pts | 0-0 | |
| Total points | 0 | |
| Winners | 0 | |
| %Winners | – | |
| SERVE | ||
| Aces | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | |
| 1st in | 0/0 | |
| % 1st in | NAN% | |
| 1st pts | 0/0 | |
| % 1st pts | NAN% | |
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | NAN% | |
| Breaks | ||
| Won | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/0 | |
| Converted % | NAN% | |
| Conceded | 0 | |
| Saved | 0 | |
| Saved % | NAN% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | |
| Molcan | |||
| Q1 Cabral |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 60-31 | 60-31 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/46 | 34/46 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 27/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 7/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | INF% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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