Michael Geerts and Diego Hidalgo will square off in the qualifications of the Pozoblanco Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 5:00 pm on PISTA 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Geerts who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Michael Geerts is the pick to win this match.
Michael Geerts -> 1.40
Diego Hidalgo -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Diego Hidalgo
This will be the 2nd time that Michael Geerts and Diego Hidalgo square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Geerts (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Geerts won 7-6(4) 6-3 in the qualifications in the Amersfoort Challenger back in July 2021.
Michael Geerts
Ranked no. 351, Michael reached the qualifications after beating Mark Vervoort 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Geerts had a good straight sets win against Vervoort (6-1 6-0). During the match, Geerts scored 51 points vs Vervoort’s 20. Michael was very aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about the service games, Geerts recorded 2 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Michael Geerts was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (15/18) of his 1st serve and 91% (10/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Belgian broke Vervoort 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
Geerts has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (219-145). 3-2 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Geerts has an aggregate116-66 record in the last 8 years on hard.
Michael’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Troisdorf.
The Belgian has a composed 18-15 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pozoblanco Challenger
The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.
Diego Hidalgo
Ranked no. 456, will start his run in the Pozoblanco Challenger after he played his last match in the Pozoblanco Challenger where he overcame 6-4 7-5 to Matarredona in the qualifications on the 18th of July.
The Ecuadorian has a compiled 11-12 win-loss record in 2021, 3-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Ecuadorian has an overall 155-99 record. He has a positive 51-36 record on hard.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Geerts | Hidalgo |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 13 | 22 |
Pts | 51-20 | 79-60 |
Total Points | 71 | 139 |
Winners | 15 | 28 |
%Winners | 29% | 35% |
Both Geerts and Hidalgo played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Geerts and Hidalgo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Geerts played 9 games less than Hidalgo. The Belgian scored 15 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, Hidalgo scored 28 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Geerts | Hidalgo |
---|---|---|
Aces | 2 | 4 |
Avg per match | 2 | 4 |
1st in | 18/29 | 33/53 |
%1st in | 62% | 62% |
1st pts | 15/18 | 28/33 |
%1st pts | 83% | 85% |
2nd pts | 10/11 | 12/20 |
%2nd pts | 91% | 60% |
Geerts recorded 2 aces . Hidalgo recorded 4 aces . Geerts won 83% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 91% of the points. On the other side, Hidalgo won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Geerts | Hidalgo |
---|---|---|
Won | 6 | 4 |
Converted | 6/13 | 4/15 |
% Converted | 46% | 27% |
Conceded | 0 | 3 |
Saved | 0 | 1 |
% Saved | NAN% | 33% |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Geerts broke his opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Michael pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Diego broke his opponent 4 times with a 27% conversion rate. Hidalgo conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
Geerts | |||
Q1 Vervoort |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
pts | 51-20 | 51-20 | |
Total points | 71 | 71 | |
Winners | 15 | 15 | |
%Winners | 29% | 29% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 2 | 2 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 18/29 | 18/29 | |
% 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
1st pts | 15/18 | 15/18 | |
% 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
2nd pts | 10/11 | 10/11 | |
% 2nd pts | 91% | 91% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 6 | 6 | |
Converted | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
Converted % | 46% | 46% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Hidalgo | |||
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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