Jiri Lehecka and Kyrian Jacquet will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Tampere Challenger for the 1st 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)

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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)

J.Lehecka
K.Jacquet
4h:03
4h:03
Time on court​
!
7h:16
7h:16
1h:15
1h:15
Last match​
1h:32
1h:32
3
3
Match played
!
5
5
54
54
Games Played​
125
125
6
6
Set played​​
15
15
207
207
Total points​
357
357
69
69
Avg point​
71.4
71.4
79
79
Winners
126
126
26.3
26.3
Avg Winners​
25.2
25.2
38%
38%
Ratio winners
35%
35%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
11
11
3
3
Avg Aces
2.2
2.2
6
6
Double Faults
17
17
2
2
Avg Double Faults
3.4
3.4
79/107
79/107
1st won total​
126/189
126/189
!
74%
74%
1st won %
67%
67%
43/71
43/71
2nd won total​
60/113
60/113
!
61%
61%
2nd won %
53%
53%
-- Break Points --
11/27
11/27
BP won
22/48
22/48
3.7/9
3.7/9
Avg BP won
4.4/9.6
4.4/9.6
41%
41%
Won
46%
46%
14
14
Conceded
32
32
4.7
4.7
Avg Conceded
6.4
6.4
3
3
Broken
11
11
1
1
Avg Broken
2.2
2.2
11
11
Saved
21
21
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Lehecka Jacquet
Match played 3 4
Tot Set 6 12
Tot Games 54 94
Pts 207-149 357-297
Total Points 356 654
Winners 79 126
%Winners 38% 35%

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

Serve Lehecka Jacquet
Aces 9 11
Avg per match 3 2.8
1st in 107/178 189/302
%1st in 60% 63%
1st pts 79/107 126/189
%1st pts 74% 67%
2nd pts 43/71 60/113
%2nd pts 61% 53%

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

Breaks Lehecka Jacquet
Won 11 22
Converted 11/27 22/48
% Converted 41% 46%
Conceded 14 32
Saved 11 21
% Saved 79% 66%
Times Broken 3 11

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.

Lehecka
R1
Hoang		 R2
Jarry		 1/4
Virtanen		 Total
Score 6-1 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-4 6-1
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 17 20 17 54
pts 72-50 68-52 67-47 207-149
Total points 122 120 114 356
Winners 26 26 27 79
%Winners 36% 38% 40% 38%
SERVE
Aces 4 3 2 9
Double Faults 2 1 3 6
1st in 41/63 34/52 32/63 107/178
% 1st in 65% 65% 51% 60%
1st pts 26/41 26/34 27/32 79/107
% 1st pts 63% 76% 84% 74%
2nd pts 14/22 13/18 16/31 43/71
% 2nd pts 64% 72% 52% 61%
Breaks
Won 5 3 3 11
Converted 5/13 3/8 3/6 11/27
Converted % 38% 38% 50% 41%
Conceded 8 3 3 14
Saved 6/8 2/3 3/3 11
Saved % 75% 67% 100% 81%
Times Broken 2 1 0 3
Jacquet
Q1
Castelnuovo		 Q3
Kicker		 R1
Oliveira		 R2
Kuzmanov		 1/4
Blancaneaux		 Total
Score 6-76 6-1 6-0 6-4 6-74 6-2 2-6 6-1 3-0 ret. 3-6 6-4 7-65 6-3 6-3
Tot Set 3 3 3 3 2 14
Tot Games 26 31 18 32 18 125
pts 113-80 – 60-54 109-108 75-55 357-297
Total points 193 0 114 217 130 654
Winners 39 26 35 26 126
%Winners 35% NAN% 43% 32% 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 5 0 3 3 0 11
Double Faults 3 3 7 4 17
1st in 53/78 / 43/63 55/100 38/61 189/302
% 1st in 68% – 68% 55% 62% 63%
1st pts 39/53 / 26/43 35/55 26/38 126/189
% 1st pts 74% – 60% 64% 68% 67%
2nd pts 17/25 / 10/20 21/45 12/23 60/113
% 2nd pts 68% – 50% 47% 52% 53%
Breaks
Won 6 4 7 5 22
Converted 6/17 / 4/5 7/15 5/11 22/48
Converted % 35% – 80% 47% 45% 46%
Conceded 2 9 14 7 32
Saved 2/2 0/ 7/9 7/14 5/7 21
Saved % 100% – 78% 50% 71% 100%
Times Broken 0 2 7 2 11

Tennis Scores in Tampere Challenger

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