Egor Gerasimov and Jonas Forejtek will play each other in the 1st round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Egor Gerasimov who should win in 3 sets.
Egor Gerasimov -> 1.55
Jonas Forejtek -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Egor Gerasimov vs. Jonas Forejtek
There is no head to head record between Egor Gerasimov and Jonas Forejtek since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Egor Gerasimov
Ranked no. 113, the Belarussian will start his run in the Helsinki Challenger after he played his last match in Stockholm where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Fritz in the 1st round on the 9th of November.
Egor has a compiled 23-31 win-loss record in 2021, 14-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Belarussian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Montpellier.
Talking about his overall career, The Belarussian has an overall 344-234 record. He has a positive 138-80 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2014. See his history.
Jonas Forejtek
Ranked no. 315, Forejtek reached the 1st round after defeating N.Sriram Balaji 6-2 7-5 and Denis Yevseyev 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Forejtek had a good straight sets win against Yevseyev (6-2 6-3). During the match Forejtek scored 57 points vs Yevseyev’s 44. The Czech was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Forejtek struck 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jonas Forejtek was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Yevseyev 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jonas started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 58% of the points he played.
Forejtek’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Prague 2 Challenger.
Jonas has an aggregate 32-29 win-loss record in 2021, 13-7 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Helsinki Challenger
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Emilio GomezGomez (4-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis IstominIstomin – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao SousaSousa – Patrik Niklas-SalminenNiklas-Salminen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Oscar OtteOtte (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Tobias KamkeKamke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jack DraperDraper – Julian LenzLenz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jonas ForejtekForejtek – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – H2H and prediction