Alex Molcan and Nicola Kuhn will clash against each other in the quarter of the Barcelona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday 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 Alex Molcan who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alex Molcan is the pick to win this match.
Alex Molcan -> 1.27
Nicola Kuhn -> 3.76
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Prediction and head to head Alex Molcan vs. Nicola Kuhn
There is no head to head record between Alex Molcan and Nicola Kuhn since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Alex Molcan
Ranked no. 116 (career-high), Molcan got to the quarter after defeating Alejandro Moro Canas 6-1 6-3 and Timofey Skatov 6-1 7-66.
In the 2nd round, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Skatov (6-1 7-66). During the match, Molcan scored 78 points vs Skatov’s 65. The Slovakian was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Regarding the service games, Molcan blasted 3 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Alex Molcan lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Molcan put 53% of his first serves in, winning 82% (36/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (16/39) on the 2nd serve. Alex broke Skatov 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Molcan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Molcan has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (187-112). 41-13 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Molcan has an aggregate119-66 record in the last 8 years on clay.
His best result of the season was winning the title in the Liberec Challenger where he overcame Tomas Machac in the final 6-0 6-1.
Alex has a compiled 53-20 win-loss record in 2021, 41-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Barcelona Challenger
Molcan has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicola Kuhn
Ranked no. 257, the Spaniard got to the quarter after beating Pedja Krstin 6-4 6-4 and Nikola Milojevic 7-5 6-2.
In the 2nd round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Milojevic (7-5 6-2). During the match Kuhn scored 70 points vs Milojevic’s 54. Kuhn was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuhn scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Nicola Kuhn was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Nicola broke Milojevic 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kuhn started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Nicola’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Szczecin Challenger.
Kuhn has a composed 19-23 win-loss record in 2021, 13-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Barcelona Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Molcan | Kuhn |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 40 |
| Pts | 146-109 | 135-101 |
| Total Points | 255 | 236 |
| Winners | 56 | 47 |
| %Winners | 38% | 35% |
Both Molcan and Kuhn played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Molcan and Kuhn have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Molcan played 4 games less than Kuhn. Molcan scored 56 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard struck 47 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Molcan | Kuhn |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 1.5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 71/128 | 60/106 |
| %1st in | 55% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 56/71 | 47/60 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 26/57 | 33/46 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 72% |
Molcan fired 3 aces (1.5 per match). Kuhn fired 8 aces (4 per match). Molcan won 79% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Kuhn won 78% of the points on 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 | Molcan | Kuhn |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 6 |
| Converted | 9/23 | 6/13 |
| % Converted | 39% | 46% |
| Conceded | 11 | 4 |
| Saved | 8 | 3 |
| % Saved | 73% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 |
Alex broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. The Slovakian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. Kuhn broke his opponents 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Kuhn conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Molcan | ||||
| R1 Moro |
R2 Skatov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | 6-1 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 20 | 36 | |
| pts | 68-44 | 78-65 | 146-109 | |
| Total points | 112 | 143 | 255 | |
| Winners | 20 | 36 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 46% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 27/45 | 44/83 | 71/128 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 53% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 20/27 | 36/44 | 56/71 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 82% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 16/39 | 26/57 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 41% | 46% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 6/14 | 3/9 | 9/23 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 33% | 39% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 6/7 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 86% | 68% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Kuhn | ||||
| R1 Krstin |
R2 Milojevic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | 40 | |
| pts | 65-47 | 70-54 | 135-101 | |
| Total points | 112 | 124 | 236 | |
| Winners | 22 | 25 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 36% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 25/48 | 35/58 | 60/106 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 60% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 22/25 | 25/35 | 47/60 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 71% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/23 | 15/23 | 33/46 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 65% | 72% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 4/8 | 6/13 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 50% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 75% | 38% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
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