Gastao Elias and Jiri Lehecka will play each other in the 2nd round of the Milan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jiri Lehecka who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jiri Lehecka is the pick to win this match.
Jiri Lehecka -> 1.75
Gastao Elias -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Gastao Elias vs. Jiri Lehecka
There is no head to head record between Gastao Elias and Jiri Lehecka since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Gastao Elias
Ranked no. 245, Gastao reached the 2nd round after beating Jonas Forejtek 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Forejtek (6-4 6-2). During the match, Elias scored 61 points vs Forejtek’s 43. Gastao was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Elias made 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Gastao Elias was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (22/27) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Elias broke Forejtek 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Elias has a good record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (312-242). 18-5 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Elias has an aggregate 242-165 match record in the last years on clay.
Elias’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Villena,M25 Vale do Lobo,the Oeiras 1 Challenger and the Oeiras 4 Challenger.
Elias has a compiled 27-8 win-loss record in 2021, 18-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Milan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2016. See his history.
Jiri Lehecka
Ranked no. 266, Jiri reached the 2nd round after beating Luca Vanni 6-3 7-65.
In the 1st round, Lehecka had a good straight sets win against Vanni (6-3 7-65). During the match Lehecka scored 84 points vs Vanni’s 70. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Lehecka bagged 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Jiri Lehecka lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Lehecka put 64% of his first serves in, winning 64% (36/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (13/32) on the 2nd serve. Lehecka broke Vanni 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Jiri’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm El Sheikh,M25 Biel and M25 Jablonec nad Nisou.
Lehecka has a composed 34-11 win-loss record in 2021, 14-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Elias | Lehecka |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 22 |
| Pts | 61-43 | 84-70 |
| Total Points | 104 | 154 |
| Winners | 22 | 36 |
| %Winners | 36% | 43% |
Both Elias and Lehecka played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Elias and Lehecka have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Elias played 4 games less than Lehecka. The Portuguese scored 22 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Lehecka scored 36 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Elias | Lehecka |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 4 |
| 1st in | 27/51 | 56/88 |
| %1st in | 53% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 36/56 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/32 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 41% |
Elias fired 2 aces . Lehecka managed to score 4 aces . Elias won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Lehecka won 64% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 41% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Elias | Lehecka |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 56% | 56% |
| Conceded | 6 | 9 |
| Saved | 4 | 5 |
| % Saved | 67% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 |
Elias broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Portuguese conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Jiri broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Jiri conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.
| Elias | |||
| R1 Forejtek |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 61-43 | 61-43 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/51 | 27/51 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 22/27 | 22/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Lehecka | |||
| R1 Vanni |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 84-70 | 84-70 | |
| Total points | 154 | 154 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 56/88 | 56/88 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 36/56 | 36/56 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/32 | 13/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 5/9 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 56% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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