Lucas Catarina and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo will square off in the qualifications of the Oeiras 4 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucas Catarina who should win in 3 sets.
Lucas Catarina -> 1.81
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo -> 1.952
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Prediction and head to head Lucas Catarina vs. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
This will be the 3rd time that Lucas Catarina and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Sanchez-Izquierdo (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Sanchez-Izquierdo won 6-4 6-3 in the 1st round in M25 Angers back in 2019.
Lucas Catarina
Ranked no. 347, the Monegasque reached the qualifications after beating Ronald Slobodchikov 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, Catarina had a good straight sets win against Slobodchikov (6-1 6-3). During the match, Catarina scored 64 points vs Slobodchikov’s 42. Lucas was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about the service games, Catarina was unable to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Lucas Catarina was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (17/23) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Lucas broke Slobodchikov 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).
Catarina has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (140-81). 5-2 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Catarina has an overall17-17 record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Monegasque’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M25 Angers.
Lucas has an aggregate 28-11 win-loss record in 2021, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Oeiras 4 Challenger
Lucas has never competed in this tournament before.
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
Ranked no. 362, will start his run in the Oeiras 4 Challenger after he played his last match in the Oeiras 4 Challenger where he defeated 6-1 6-4 to Gomes in the qualifications on the 23rd of May.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 12-10 win-loss record in 2021, 12-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Spaniard’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 La Nucia.
In terms of his career, Sanchez-Izquierdo has an overall 153-91 record. He has a positive 148-82 record on clay.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Catarina | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 17 |
| Pts | 64-42 | 61-42 |
| Total Points | 106 | 103 |
| Winners | 17 | 24 |
| %Winners | 27% | 39% |
Both Catarina and Sanchez-Izquierdo played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Catarina and Sanchez-Izquierdo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Catarina played 1 game less than Sanchez-Izquierdo. The Monegasque scored 17 winners (27% of the total points). On the other side, Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 24 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Catarina | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 23/47 | 40/53 |
| %1st in | 49% | 75% |
| 1st pts | 17/23 | 24/40 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 7/13 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 54% |
Catarina didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Sanchez-Izquierdo also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Catarina won 74% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Sanchez-Izquierdo won 60% of the points on 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 | Catarina | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 75% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 33% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Catarina broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Monegasque dropped his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The Spaniard broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Nikolas conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded.
| Catarina | |||
| Q1 Slobodchikov | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 64-42 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 27% | 27% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 23/47 | 23/47 | |
| % 1st in | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 17/23 | 17/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sanchez-Izquierdo | |||
| 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 % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
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