Jiri Lehecka and Kyrian Jacquet will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Tampere Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jiri Lehecka is the pick to win this match.
Jiri Lehecka -> 1.176
Kyrian Jacquet -> 4.95

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Prediction and head to head Jiri Lehecka vs. Kyrian Jacquet

There is no head to head record between Jiri Lehecka and Kyrian Jacquet since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Jiri Lehecka

Ranked no. 254 (career-high), Lehecka reached the semifinal after beating Antoine Hoang 6-1 6-4, Nicolas Jarry 6-4 6-4 and Otto Virtanen 6-4 6-1.

In the quarter, Lehecka had a good straight sets win against Virtanen (6-4 6-1). During the match, Lehecka scored 67 points vs Virtanen’s 47. Jiri was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Lehecka made 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jiri Lehecka was quite effective on serve to win 84% (27/32) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jiri broke Virtanen 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Lehecka started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to win 58% of the points he played.

Lehecka has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (86-50). 21-9 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Lehecka has an aggregate46-28 record in the last 5 years on clay.

The Czech’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm El Sheikh,M25 Biel and M25 Jablonec nad Nisou.

Lehecka has an overall 41-14 win-loss record in 2021, 21-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tampere Challenger

The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.

Tampere Challenger

Lehecka's Record

Kyrian Jacquet

Ranked no. 346, Jacquet got to the semifinal after beating Luca Castelnuovo 6-7⁶ 6-1 6-0, Goncalo Oliveira 2-6 6-1 3-0 ret., Dimitar Kuzmanov 3-6 6-4 7-6⁵ and Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-3 6-3.

In the quarter, Jacquet had a good straight sets win against Blancaneaux (6-3 6-3). During the match Jacquet scored 75 points vs Blancaneaux’s 55. Kyrian was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Jacquet was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Kyrian Jacquet lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Jacquet put 62% of his first serves in, winning 68% (26/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Blancaneaux 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Kyrian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and M15 Helsinki.

The French player has a compiled 30-17 win-loss record in 2021, 19-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tampere Challenger

Jacquet's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Lehecka played 3 matches while Jacquet competed in 4 matches. Jacquet started his run from the qualifications while Lehecka had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kyrian Jacquet lost 3 sets while Jiri Lehecka hasn’t conceded a set so far. Lehecka has played 6 set(s) less than Jacquet (6 vs 12). Therefore, Lehecka played 40 games less than Jacquet. Lehecka scored 79 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The French player recorded 126 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Lehecka bagged 9 aces (3 per match). Jacquet recorded 11 aces (2.8 per match). Lehecka won 74% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Jacquet won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

The Czech broke his opponents 11 times with a 41% conversion rate. The Czech dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded. Jacquet broke his opponents 22 times with a 46% conversion rate. Kyrian conceded his serve 11 times and he saved 66% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Jiri
Lehecka

1:0

Kyrian
Jacquet

Rank

26

High

23

1Clay0

Rank

239

High

191

Win Loss

Lehecka

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Jacquet

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2024 2023 2022

16 - 9

10 - 9

11-6

Hard

2-2

1-2

I Hard

1-1

4-1

Clay

7-5

Tennis Scores in Tampere Challenger

• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-4 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Nicolas KickerKicker – Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez (7-6⁶ 6-0) – See score progression
• Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (6-3 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp – Nicolas KickerKicker (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Kyrian JacquetJacquet (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Lehecka

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Jacquet