Nicholas David Ionel and Nicolae Frunza will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Sibiu Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 7. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicholas David Ionel who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nicholas David Ionel is the pick to win this match.
Nicholas David Ionel -> 1.55
Nicolae Frunza -> 2.39

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Prediction and head to head Nicholas David Ionel vs. Nicolae Frunza

This will be the 2^nd time that Nicholas David Ionel and Nicolae Frunza play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Frunza (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they played, Frunza won 6-0 3-6 7-6(4) in the 2^nd round in M15 Curtea De Arges back in 2019.

Nicholas David Ionel

Ranked no. 455, the Romanian reached the qualifications after defeating Mircea-Alexandru Jecan 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, David Ionel had a good straight sets win against Jecan (6-2 6-4). During the match, David Ionel scored 77 points vs Jecan’s 69. Nicholas was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, David Ionel struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Nicholas David Ionel conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 10 break points. Furthermore, David Ionel put 55% of his first serves in, winning 57% (26/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 68% (25/37) on the 2nd serve. Nicholas broke Jecan 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

David Ionel has a solid match record in the last 4 years having won 60% of his matches (74-50). 24-24 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, David Ionel has an overall58-40 win-loss record in the last 4 years on clay.

The Romanian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Esch/Alzette.

The Romanian has an overall 24-24 win-loss record in 2021, 24-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sibiu Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2020. See his history.

Sibiu Challenger

David Ionel's Record

Nicolae Frunza

Ranked no. 657, will start his run in the Sibiu Challenger after he played his last match in the Sibiu Challenger where he beat 6-2 7-6(8) to Krutykh in the qualifications on the 26^th of September.

Frunza has an aggregate 38-15 win-loss record in 2021, 38-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Frunza’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya.

In terms of his career, Frunza has an overall 174-107 record. He has a positive 158-92 record on clay.

Previously in the Sibiu Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2018. See his history.

Sibiu Challenger

Frunza's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both David Ionel and Frunza played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, David Ionel and Frunza have played the same amount of sets 2. However, David Ionel played 3 games less than Frunza. David Ionel scored 26 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Frunza fired 31 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

David Ionel managed to score 2 aces . Frunza blasted 5 aces . David Ionel won 57% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Frunza won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.

How they played the important points

Nicholas broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Romanian pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 10 break points. The Romanian broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Frunza conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Nicholas
David Ionel

2:1

Nicolae
Frunza

Rank

391

High

184

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Rank

883

High

442

Win Loss

David Ionel

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Frunza

2024 2023 2022

31 - 20

0 - 0

31-18

Clay

0-0

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