Sumit Nagal and Carlos Gomez-Herrera will play each other in the 2nd round of the Banja Luka Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sumit Nagal who should win in 2 sets.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.32
Carlos Gomez-Herrera -> 3.38
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Prediction and head to head Sumit Nagal vs. Carlos Gomez-Herrera
This will be the 3rd time that Sumit Nagal and Carlos Gomez-Herrera face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Nagal (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Nagal won 7-6(2) 2-6 7-6(2) in the qualifications in Buenos Aires back in February 2021.
Sumit Nagal
Ranked no. 164, Sumit got to the 2nd round after defeating Nicolas Alvarez 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Sumit had a good straight sets win against Alvarez (6-1 6-2). During the match, Nagal scored 54 points vs Alvarez’s 29. Sumit was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nagal was unable to score even 1 ace during the encounter and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Sumit Nagal was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (24/34) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Indian broke Alvarez 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Nagal has a solid record in the last 8 years having won 62% of his matches (236-147). 19-18 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Nagal has an aggregate159-84 record in the last 8 years on clay.
Nagal has an overall 20-22 win-loss record in 2021, 19-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Banja Luka Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2019. See his history.
Carlos Gomez-Herrera
Ranked no. 383, Gomez-Herrera got to the 2nd round after defeating Drazen Petrovic 6-1 6-0.
In the 1st round, Gomez-Herrera had a good straight sets win against Petrovic (6-1 6-0). During the match Gomez-Herrera scored 55 points vs Petrovic’s 15. Carlos was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Gomez-Herrera scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Carlos Gomez-Herrera was quite efficient on serve to win 95% (20/21) of his 1st serve and 89% (8/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gomez-Herrera was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Petrovic 5 times.
Carlos has a compiled 10-13 win-loss record in 2021, 9-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nagal | Gomez-Herrera |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 13 |
| Pts | 54-29 | 55-15 |
| Total Points | 83 | 70 |
| Winners | 24 | 20 |
| %Winners | 44% | 36% |
Both Nagal and Gomez-Herrera played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nagal and Gomez-Herrera have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nagal played 2 games more than Gomez-Herrera. The Indian scored 24 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard bagged 20 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nagal | Gomez-Herrera |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 34/45 | 21/30 |
| %1st in | 76% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 24/34 | 20/21 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 95% |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 8/9 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 89% |
Nagal didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gomez-Herrera blasted 1 ace . Nagal won 71% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Gomez-Herrera won 95% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 89% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nagal | Gomez-Herrera |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/5 |
| % Converted | 71% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 67% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Sumit broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Indian lost his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Spaniard broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Carlos was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Nagal | |||
| R1 Alvarez | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 54-29 | 54-29 | |
| Total points | 83 | 83 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 34/45 | 34/45 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 24/34 | 24/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Gomez-Herrera | |||
| R1 Petrovic | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 55-15 | 55-15 | |
| Total points | 70 | 70 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 21/30 | 21/30 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 20/21 | 20/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/9 | 8/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 89% | 89% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Banja Luka Challenger
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Marko TepavacTepavac (4-6 6-3 7-60) – See score progression
- Sumit NagalNagal – Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – David PoljakPoljak (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Alexey VatutinVatutin (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Mirza BasicBasic – Vit KoprivaKopriva (6-3 4-6 7-65) – See score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Nerman FaticFatic (5-7 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Jonathan MridhaMridha – Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinMartin – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Marko TopoTopo – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (4-6 7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Malek JaziriJaziri (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Martin CuevasCuevas (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (3-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (6-2 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Miljan ZekicZekic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Vladan TadicTadic (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Drazen PetrovicPetrovic (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrej MartinMartin – Jonathan MridhaMridha (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mirza BasicBasic – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Sumit NagalNagal (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Zdenek KolarKolar (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Pedja KrstinKrstin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction