Roberto Carballes Baena and Alex Rybakov will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Murcia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Roberto Carballes Baena who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Roberto Carballes Baena is the pick to win this match.
Roberto Carballes Baena -> 1.16
Alex Rybakov -> 5.00
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Prediction and head to head Roberto Carballes Baena vs. Alex Rybakov
There is no head to head record between Roberto Carballes Baena and Alex Rybakov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Roberto Carballes Baena
Ranked no. 88, the Spaniard got to the 2nd round after defeating Pablo Llamas Ruiz 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Carballes Baena had a good straight sets win against Llamas Ruiz (6-3 6-2). During the match, Carballes Baena scored 64 points vs Llamas Ruiz’s 44. Carballes Baena was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Carballes Baena made 7 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Roberto Carballes Baena was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Roberto broke Llamas Ruiz 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Carballes Baena has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (424-286). 30-19 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Carballes Baena has an aggregate 381-233 match record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the current season was winning the title in the Belgrade Challenger where he overcame Damir Dzumhur in the final 6-4 7-5.
Carballes Baena has an overall 34-25 win-loss record in 2021, 30-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2019. See his history.
Alex Rybakov
Ranked no. 350, the American reached the 2nd round after defeating Davide Galoppini 6-1 7-5, Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-3 6-1 and Daniel Rincon 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Rybakov had a good straight sets win against Rincon (6-3 6-2). During the match Rybakov scored 60 points vs Rincon’s 43. The American was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Rybakov wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Alex Rybakov was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (29/40) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alex broke Rincon 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Alex’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Porec,M25 Most,M25 Decatur and M25 Prostejov.
The American has a composed 39-24 win-loss record in 2021, 35-21 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Carballes Baena | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 52 |
| Pts | 64-44 | 177-123 |
| Total Points | 108 | 300 |
| Winners | 26 | 74 |
| %Winners | 41% | 42% |
Carballes Baena played 1 match while Rybakov competed in 3 matches. Rybakov started his run from the qualifications while Carballes Baena had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Carballes Baena has played 4 set(s) less than Rybakov (2 vs 6). Therefore, Carballes Baena played 35 games less than Rybakov. The Spaniard scored 26 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Rybakov blasted 74 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Carballes Baena | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 0.7 |
| 1st in | 33/48 | 106/153 |
| %1st in | 69% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 74/106 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 28/47 |
| %2nd pts | 73% | 60% |
Carballes Baena scored 7 aces . Rybakov scored 2 aces (0.7 per match). Carballes Baena won 79% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Rybakov won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Carballes Baena | Rybakov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 14 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 14/23 |
| % Converted | 38% | 61% |
| Conceded | 0 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 7 |
| % Saved | NAN% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Roberto broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Carballes Baena pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The American broke his opponents 14 times with a 61% conversion rate. Alex conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Carballes Baena | |||
| R1 Llamas Ruiz |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-44 | 64-44 | |
| Total points | 108 | 108 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 33/48 | 33/48 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 26/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 11/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Rybakov | |||||
| Q1 Galoppini |
Q3 Sanchez |
R1 Rincon |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | 6-3 6-1 | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 16 | 17 | 52 | |
| pts | 61-42 | 56-38 | 60-43 | 177-123 | |
| Total points | 103 | 94 | 103 | 300 | |
| Winners | 24 | 21 | 29 | 74 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 38% | 48% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 30/51 | 36/47 | 40/55 | 106/153 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 77% | 73% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 21/36 | 29/40 | 74/106 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 58% | 73% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 6/11 | 8/15 | 28/47 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 55% | 53% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 6/9 | 4/7 | 14/23 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 67% | 57% | 61% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 50% | 75% | 192% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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