Blaz Rola and Orlando Luz will face off in the 2nd round of the San Marino Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blaz Rola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaz Rola is the pick to win this match.
Blaz Rola -> 1.56
Orlando Luz -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Blaz Rola vs. Orlando Luz
There is no head to head record between Blaz Rola and Orlando Luz since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Blaz Rola
Ranked no. 174, the Slovenian got to the 2nd round after beating Zdenek Kolar 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Rola had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-3 6-3). During the match, Rola scored 68 points vs Kolar’s 48. Blaz was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Rola managed to score 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Blaz Rola was very efficient on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 70% (16/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovenian broke Kolar 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Rola has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (344-226). 15-10 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Rola has a composed 225-118 match record in the last years on clay.
The Slovenian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Split 1 Challenger.
The Slovenian has a compiled 20-19 win-loss record in 2021, 15-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the San Marino Challenger
Blaz has never competed in this tournament before.
Orlando Luz
Ranked no. 311, Orlando got to the 2nd round after defeating Oscar Jose Gutierrez 7-5 6-3, Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-1 6-75 6-2 and Malek Jaziri 6-3 4-2 ret..
In the 1st round, Luz had a good straight sets win against Jaziri (6-3 4-2 ret.). During the match Luz scored 56 points vs Jaziri’s 35. Luz was quite aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about serving, Luz scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Orlando Luz lost the serve once. Furthermore, Luz put 59% of his first serves in, winning 62% (16/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 83% (15/18) on the 2nd serve. Luz broke Jaziri 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Luz’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Wroclaw.
Orlando has an overall 32-16 win-loss record in 2021, 32-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Rola | Luz |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 64 |
| Pts | 68-48 | 238-173 |
| Total Points | 116 | 411 |
| Winners | 23 | 86 |
| %Winners | 34% | 36% |
Rola played 1 match while Luz competed in 3 matches. Luz started his run from the qualifications while Rola had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Orlando Luz dropped 1 set while Blaz Rola hasn’t lost a set so far. Rola has played 6 set(s) less than Luz (2 vs 8). Therefore, Rola played 46 games less than Luz. The Slovenian scored 23 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Orlando blasted 86 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Rola | Luz |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 27/50 | 125/199 |
| %1st in | 54% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 86/125 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 53/74 |
| %2nd pts | 70% | 72% |
Rola fired 7 aces . Luz managed to score 9 aces (3 per match). Rola won 85% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Luz won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Rola | Luz |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 12 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 12/26 |
| % Converted | 43% | 46% |
| Conceded | 2 | 13 |
| Saved | 2 | 10 |
| % Saved | 100% | 77% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
The Slovenian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Rola quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Brazilian broke his opponents 12 times with a 46% conversion rate. Orlando conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 77% of the break points that he conceded.
| Rola | |||
| R1 Kolar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-48 | 68-48 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 27/50 | 27/50 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 23/27 | 23/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | 16/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Luz | |||||
| Q1 Jose Gutierrez |
Q3 Sanchez-Izquierdo |
R1 Jaziri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | 6-1 6-75 6-2 | 6-3 4-2 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 28 | 15 | 64 | |
| pts | 77-65 | 105-73 | 56-35 | 238-173 | |
| Total points | 142 | 178 | 91 | 411 | |
| Winners | 30 | 40 | 16 | 86 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 38% | 29% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 46/74 | 53/81 | 26/44 | 125/199 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 65% | 59% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 30/46 | 40/53 | 16/26 | 86/125 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 75% | 62% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/28 | 21/28 | 15/18 | 53/74 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 75% | 83% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 5/12 | 3/6 | 12/26 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 42% | 50% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 | 1 | 13 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 4/5 | 0/1 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 80% | 0% | 166% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
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