Hugo Gaston and Oleksii Krutykh will play each other in the 2nd round of the Barcelona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. 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 Hugo Gaston who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Hugo Gaston is the pick to win this match.
Hugo Gaston -> 1.32
Oleksii Krutykh -> 3.38
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Prediction and head to head Hugo Gaston vs. Oleksii Krutykh
There is no head to head record between Hugo Gaston and Oleksii Krutykh since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Hugo Gaston
Ranked no. 111 (career-high), Gaston reached the 2nd round after defeating Andrea Collarini 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Gaston had a good straight sets win against Collarini (7-5 6-2). During the match, Gaston scored 77 points vs Collarini’s 62. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Gaston scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 5 double faults. Hugo Gaston lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gaston put 53% of his first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (16/34) on the 2nd serve. Gaston broke Collarini 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Gaston has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (129-82). 29-14 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gaston has a compiled79-40 record in the last 6 years on clay.
The French player best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Rome 1 Challenger,the Iasi Challenger, Gstaad and the Tulln Challenger.
The French player has an aggregate 35-23 win-loss record in 2021, 29-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Barcelona Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Oleksii Krutykh
Ranked no. 397, the Ukrainian got to the 2nd round after defeating Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-2 6-0 and Pablo Llamas Ruiz 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Oleksii had a good straight sets win against Llamas Ruiz (6-2 6-2). During the match Krutykh scored 58 points vs Llamas Ruiz’s 31. The Ukrainian was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Krutykh couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Oleksii Krutykh was very effective on serve to win 88% (22/25) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Ukrainian broke Llamas Ruiz 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Krutykh’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M15 Novomoskovsk.
Krutykh has a composed 40-20 win-loss record in 2021, 32-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gaston | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 30 |
| Pts | 77-62 | 129-78 |
| Total Points | 139 | 207 |
| Winners | 27 | 40 |
| %Winners | 35% | 31% |
Gaston played 1 match while Krutykh competed in 2 matches. Krutykh started his run from the qualifications while Gaston had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Gaston has played 2 set(s) less than Krutykh (2 vs 4). Therefore, Gaston played 10 games less than Krutykh. The French player scored 27 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Oleksii bagged 40 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gaston | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 2 |
| 1st in | 39/73 | 52/90 |
| %1st in | 53% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 27/39 | 40/52 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 16/34 | 26/38 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 68% |
Gaston managed to score 1 ace . Krutykh also recorded 4 aces (2 per match). Gaston won 69% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Krutykh won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gaston | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 9 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 9/22 |
| % Converted | 56% | 41% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 60% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Hugo broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Krutykh broke his opponents 9 times with a 41% conversion rate. Oleksii was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Gaston | |||
| R1 Collarini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 77-62 | 77-62 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 39/73 | 39/73 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 27/39 | 27/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/34 | 16/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Krutykh | |||||
| Q1 Gimeno-Traver |
Q3 Oliel |
R1 Llamas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-0 | 6-1 6-2 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 15 | 16 | 45 | |
| pts | 71-47 | – | 58-31 | 129-78 | |
| Total points | 118 | 0 | 89 | 207 | |
| Winners | 18 | 22 | 40 | ||
| %Winners | 25% | NAN% | 38% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 1st in | 27/50 | / | 25/40 | 52/90 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | – | 63% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 18/27 | / | 22/25 | 40/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | – | 88% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/23 | / | 10/15 | 26/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | – | 67% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | ||
| Converted | 5/16 | / | 4/6 | 9/22 | |
| Converted % | 31% | – | 67% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Saved | 3/3 | 0/ | 0/0 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | – | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Head 2 Head
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