Blaz Rola and Gastao Elias will square off in the 2nd round of the Bendigo Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blaz Rola who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaz Rola is the pick to win this match.
Blaz Rola -> 1.833
Gastao Elias -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Blaz Rola vs. Gastao Elias
This will be the 3rd time that Blaz Rola and Gastao Elias fight against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Rola (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Rola won 6-1 6-4 in the 3rd round in the Tampere Challenger back in 2019.
Blaz Rola
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2023 | 25-11 | 9-1 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 1-5 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 23-27 | 5-5 | 15-13 | 3-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 10-12 | 4-5 | 5-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2019 | 40-26 | 18-12 | 17-10 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 181, Rola will start his run in the Bendigo Challenger after he played his last match in the Champaign Challenger where he lost 3-6 6-4 6-4 to Shelton in the 1st round on the 16th of November.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
Talking about his overall career, The Slovenian has an overall 412-280 record. He has a positive 87-78 record on hard.
Previously in the Bendigo Challenger
Rola has never competed in this tournament before.
Gastao Elias
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 23-13 | 7-4 | 9-7 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 21-18 | 10-8 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 23-24 | 4-3 | 18-17 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 37-18 | 13-5 | 24-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 16-7 | 14-3 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 217, Gastao got to the 2nd round after beating Kody Pearson 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Pearson (6-2 6-1). During the match Elias scored 60 points vs Pearson’s 35. The Portuguese was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Elias bagged 3 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Gastao Elias was very effective on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gastao broke Pearson 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The Portuguese has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Bendigo Challenger
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Mirza BasicBasic (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo MenaMena – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (7-67 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Daniel MasurMasur (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Nicolas KickerKicker (6-71 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Cem IlkelIlkel (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason JungJung – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (7-66 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Quentin HalysHalys – Michael MmohMmoh (7-65 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gastao EliasElias – Blaz RolaRola (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Hugo GrenierGrenier (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo MenaMena – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Alexandre MullerMuller (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Mathias BourgueBourgue (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Jason JungJung (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Jaroslav PospisilPospisil (0-0) – H2H and prediction