Sebastian Baez and Filip Horansky will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Bratislava Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Baez who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sebastian Baez is the pick to win this match.
Sebastian Baez -> 1.33
Filip Horansky -> 3.32

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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Baez vs. Filip Horansky

There is no head to head record between Sebastian Baez and Filip Horansky since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Sebastian Baez

Ranked no. 185, Sebastian got to the semifinal after defeating Renzo Olivo 1-6 6-1 6-3, Frederico Ferreira Silva 6-3 5-7 6-4 and Matthias Bachinger 7-66 7-60.

In the quarter, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Bachinger (7-66 7-60). During the match, Baez scored 104 points vs Bachinger’s 93. Sebastian was extremely aggressive to blast 51 winners.

Regarding the service games, Baez made 3 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Sebastian Baez was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (51/71) 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.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Baez started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has dropped 2 set in this event to conquer 53% of the points he played.

Baez has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 69% of his matches (131-58). 25-5 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Baez has an aggregate115-48 record in the last 6 years on clay.

Sebastian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Concepcion Challenger,the Santiago Challenger and the Zagreb Challenger.

The Argentine has a compiled 25-5 win-loss record in 2021, 25-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Bratislava Challenger

The Argentine has never competed in this tournament before.

Bratislava Challenger
Baez's Record

Filip Horansky

Ranked no. 187, Horansky reached the semifinal after beating Maximilian Marterer 6-2 6-4, Norbert Gombos 6-2 6-2 and Cem Ilkel 6-3 6-4.

In the quarter, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Ilkel (6-3 6-4). During the match Horansky scored 68 points vs Ilkel’s 53. Horansky was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Horansky scored 3 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Filip Horansky was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (27/35) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Slovakian broke Ilkel 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Filip started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Horansky’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Quimper Challenger.

Horansky has a composed 13-14 win-loss record in 2021, 8-8 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Bratislava Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2014. See his history.

Bratislava Challenger
Horansky's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

S.Baez
F.Horansky
!
6h:18
6h:18
Time on court​
3h:24
3h:24
1h:56
1h:56
Last match​
1h:23
1h:23
3
3
Match played
3
3
80
80
Games Played​
53
53
8
8
Set played​​
6
6
287
287
Total points​
184
184
95.7
95.7
Avg point​
61.3
61.3
129
129
Winners
83
83
43
43
Avg Winners​
27.7
27.7
45%
45%
Ratio winners
45%
45%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
9
9
1.3
1.3
Avg Aces
3
3
3
3
Double Faults
1
1
1
1
Avg Double Faults
0.3
0.3
129/198
129/198
1st won total​
83/109
83/109
65%
65%
1st won %
!
76%
76%
26/61
26/61
2nd won total​
28/44
28/44
43%
43%
2nd won %
!
64%
64%
-- Break Points --
14/31
14/31
BP won
11/22
11/22
4.7/10.3
4.7/10.3
Avg BP won
3.7/7.3
3.7/7.3
45%
45%
Won
50%
50%
25
25
Conceded
6
6
8.3
8.3
Avg Conceded
2
2
11
11
Broken
1
1
3.7
3.7
Avg Broken
!
0.3
0.3
14
14
Saved
5
5
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Baez Horansky
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 8 6
Tot Games 80 53
Pts 287-258 184-138
Total Points 545 322
Winners 129 83
%Winners 45% 45%

Both Baez and Horansky played 3 matches. At the moment, Sebastian Baez dropped 2 sets while Filip Horansky hasn’t dropped a set so far. Baez has played 2 sets more than Horansky (8 vs 6). Therefore, Baez played 27 games more than Horansky. Sebastian scored 129 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovakian scored 83 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve Baez Horansky
Aces 4 9
Avg per match 1.3 3
1st in 198/259 109/153
%1st in 76% 71%
1st pts 129/198 83/109
%1st pts 65% 76%
2nd pts 26/61 28/44
%2nd pts 43% 64%

Baez blasted 4 aces (1.3 per match). Horansky bagged 9 aces (3 per match). Baez won 65% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Horansky won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Baez Horansky
Won 14 11
Converted 14/31 11/22
% Converted 45% 50%
Conceded 25 6
Saved 14 5
% Saved 56% 83%
Times Broken 11 1

Baez broke his opponents 14 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Argentine dropped his serve 11 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. The Slovakian broke his opponents 11 times with a 50% conversion rate. Horansky conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Baez
R1
Olivo		 R2
Ferreira Silva		 1/4
Bachinger		 Total
Score 1-6 6-1 6-3 6-3 5-7 6-4 7-66 7-60
Tot Set 3 3 2 8
Tot Games 23 31 26 80
pts 77-61 106-104 104-93 287-258
Total points 138 210 197 545
Winners 29 49 51 129
%Winners 38% 46% 49% 45%
SERVE
Aces 0 1 3 4
Double Faults 1 2 0 3
1st in 43/57 84/111 71/91 198/259
% 1st in 75% 76% 78% 76%
1st pts 29/43 49/84 51/71 129/198
% 1st pts 67% 58% 72% 65%
2nd pts 6/14 8/27 12/20 26/61
% 2nd pts 43% 30% 60% 43%
Breaks
Won 6 8 0 14
Converted 6/14 8/11 0/6 14/31
Converted % 43% 73% 0% 45%
Conceded 5 16 4 25
Saved 1/5 9/16 4/4 14
Saved % 20% 56% 100% 59%
Times Broken 4 7 0 11
Horansky
R1
Marterer		 R2
Gombos		 1/4
Ilkel		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4 6-2 6-2 6-3 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 18 16 19 53
pts 62-49 54-36 68-53 184-138
Total points 111 90 121 322
Winners 29 27 27 83
%Winners 47% 50% 40% 45%
SERVE
Aces 1 5 3 9
Double Faults 1 0 0 1
1st in 39/58 35/48 35/47 109/153
% 1st in 67% 73% 74% 71%
1st pts 29/39 27/35 27/35 83/109
% 1st pts 74% 77% 77% 76%
2nd pts 12/19 8/13 8/12 28/44
% 2nd pts 63% 62% 67% 64%
Breaks
Won 3 4 4 11
Converted 3/6 4/5 4/11 11/22
Converted % 50% 80% 36% 50%
Conceded 3 1 2 6
Saved 3/3 1/1 1/2 5
Saved % 100% 100% 50% 83%
Times Broken 0 0 1 1

Tennis Scores in Bratislava Challenger

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