Taro Daniel and Bjorn Fratangelo will square off in the 2nd round of the Lyon Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT SOPRA STERIA. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taro Daniel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Taro Daniel is the pick to win this match.
Taro Daniel -> 1.61
Bjorn Fratangelo -> 2.32
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Prediction and head to head Taro Daniel vs. Bjorn Fratangelo
This will be the 3rd time that Taro Daniel and Bjorn Fratangelo face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Daniel (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Daniel won 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in the Szczecin Challenger back in 2017.
Taro Daniel
Ranked no. 113, Daniel got to the 2nd round after defeating Andrea Collarini 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Japanese had a good straight sets win against Collarini (6-3 6-2). During the match, Daniel scored 66 points vs Collarini’s 51. The Japanese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Daniel made 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Taro Daniel lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Daniel put 62% of his first serves in, winning 62% (26/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the 2nd serve. Daniel broke Collarini 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Daniel has a favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (397-272). 17-9 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Daniel has an overall 236-143 match record in the last years on clay.
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Sultan 2 Challenger, Belgrade and the Oeiras 3 Challenger.
Taro has a compiled 23-14 win-loss record in 2021, 17-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lyon Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016. See his history.
Bjorn Fratangelo
Ranked no. 198, the American reached the 2nd round after beating Michael Geerts 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Geerts (6-3 6-3). During the match Fratangelo scored 64 points vs Geerts’s 41. The American was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Fratangelo scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Bjorn Fratangelo was quite effective on serve to win 84% (27/32) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Geerts 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Bjorn’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Cleveland Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
Fratangelo has a compiled 21-8 win-loss record in 2021, 11-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Daniel | Fratangelo |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 17 | 18 |
Pts | 66-51 | 64-41 |
Total Points | 117 | 105 |
Winners | 26 | 27 |
%Winners | 39% | 42% |
Both Daniel and Fratangelo played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Daniel and Fratangelo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Daniel played 1 game less than Fratangelo. Taro scored 26 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The American managed to score 27 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Daniel | Fratangelo |
---|---|---|
Aces | 4 | 6 |
Avg per match | 4 | 6 |
1st in | 42/68 | 32/47 |
%1st in | 62% | 68% |
1st pts | 26/42 | 27/32 |
%1st pts | 62% | 84% |
2nd pts | 15/26 | 10/15 |
%2nd pts | 58% | 67% |
Daniel bagged 4 aces . Fratangelo managed to score 6 aces . Daniel won 62% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Fratangelo won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Daniel | Fratangelo |
---|---|---|
Won | 4 | 3 |
Converted | 4/5 | 3/7 |
% Converted | 80% | 43% |
Conceded | 5 | 0 |
Saved | 4 | 0 |
% Saved | 80% | NAN% |
Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Taro lost his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Bjorn broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Bjorn was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
Daniel | |||
R1 Collarini |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
pts | 66-51 | 66-51 | |
Total points | 117 | 117 | |
Winners | 26 | 26 | |
%Winners | 39% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 42/68 | 42/68 | |
% 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
1st pts | 26/42 | 26/42 | |
% 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
% 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Fratangelo | |||
R1 Geerts |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
pts | 64-41 | 64-41 | |
Total points | 105 | 105 | |
Winners | 27 | 27 | |
%Winners | 42% | 42% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 6 | 6 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 32/47 | 32/47 | |
% 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
1st pts | 27/32 | 27/32 | |
% 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
% 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Laurent LokoliLokoli (5-2 ret.) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Titouan DroguetDroguet (7-63 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Sumit NagalNagal (6-75 7-63 7-5) – See score progression
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Alexey VatutinVatutin (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (6-4 0-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Michael GeertsGeerts (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Oscar OtteOtte – Benjamin BonziBonzi (4-6 7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Maxime JanvierJanvier – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Elias YmerYmer – Constant LestienneLestienne (6-4 0-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (7-6(2) 6-2) – See score progression
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Titouan DroguetDroguet (7-6(3) 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Pedro CachinCachin (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Tristan LamasineLamasine (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oscar OtteOtte – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Fernando VerdascoVerdasco (0-0) – H2H and prediction