Tomas Machac and Akira Santillan will face off in the 3rd round of the Traralgon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tomas Machac is the pick to win this match.
Tomas Machac -> 1.45
Akira Santillan -> 2.75
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
To be able to watch live streaming bet365, a funded account is required or you need to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours. 18+ BeGambleAware.
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Â
Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Akira Santillan
There is no head to head record between Tomas Machac and Akira Santillan since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-19 | 16-9 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-10 | 16-11 | 18-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-19 | 24-6 | 5-2 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 28-19 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 12-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 |
| 2020 | 27-12 | 0-0 | 12-6 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 143, Machac got to the 3rd round after defeating Harold Mayot 6-2 4-6 4-1 ret..
In the 2nd round, Tomas defeated Mayot (6-2 4-6 4-1 ret.). During the match, Machac scored 90 points vs Mayot’s 76. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, Machac fired 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Tomas Machac lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Machac put 73% of his first serves in, winning 67% (39/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Tomas broke Mayot 5 times after converting 29% of his break points (5/17).
Machac has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 67% of his matches (122-61). 1-0 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Machac has a composed12-6 win-loss record in the last 6 years on hard.
Tomas has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Traralgon Challenger
Tomas has never competed in this tournament before.
Akira Santillan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-33 | 11-13 | 21-14 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-28 | 28-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 20-15 | 2-5 | 12-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-6 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 335, the Australian got to the 3rd round after defeating Lukas Rosol 7-5 6-4 and Juan Pablo Ficovich 6-0 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Santillan had a good straight sets win against Pablo Ficovich (6-0 6-1). During the match Santillan scored 49 points vs Pablo Ficovich’s 19. Santillan was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Santillan blasted 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Akira Santillan was pretty efficient on serve to win 85% (22/26) of his 1st serve and 60% (6/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Akira broke Pablo Ficovich 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Akira started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 62% of the points he played.
The Australian has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Machac | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 35 |
| Pts | 90-76 | 117-72 |
| Total Points | 166 | 189 |
| Winners | 39 | 48 |
| %Winners | 43% | 41% |
Machac played 1 match while Santillan competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Tomas Machac lost 1 set while Akira Santillan hasn’t dropped a set so far. Talking about their workload, Machac and Santillan have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Machac played 12 games less than Santillan. Tomas scored 39 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Santillan struck 48 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Machac | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 4 |
| 1st in | 58/80 | 59/93 |
| %1st in | 73% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 39/58 | 48/59 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 20/34 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 59% |
Machac recorded 3 aces . Santillan made 8 aces (4 per match). Machac won 67% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Santillan won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Machac | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 9 |
| Converted | 5/17 | 9/13 |
| % Converted | 29% | 69% |
| Conceded | 6 | 4 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 67% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Tomas broke his opponent 5 times with a 29% conversion rate. Tomas surrendered his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponents 9 times with a 69% conversion rate. Akira conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Machac | |||
| R2 Mayot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 4-6 4-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 90-76 | 90-76 | |
| Total points | 166 | 166 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 58/80 | 58/80 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 39/58 | 39/58 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/17 | 5/17 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Santillan | ||||
| R1 Rosol |
R2 Pablo Ficovich |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 13 | 35 | |
| pts | 68-53 | 49-19 | 117-72 | |
| Total points | 121 | 68 | 189 | |
| Winners | 26 | 22 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 45% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 33/57 | 26/36 | 59/93 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 72% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 26/33 | 22/26 | 48/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 85% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 6/10 | 20/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 60% | 59% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 5/6 | 9/13 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 83% | 69% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 0/0 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
WLLLWWWLLL
LLWLLLWWLL Tennis Scores in Traralgon Challenger
- Akira SantillanSantillan – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Tomas MachacMachac – Harold MayotMayot (6-2 4-6 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Robin HaaseHaase (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Pedro CachinCachin (6-79 7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-1 6-0) – See score progression
- Nicola KuhnKuhn – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Blake EllisEllis (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Filip HoranskyHoransky – Brandon WalkinWalkin (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik (7-5 6-74 6-3) – See score progression
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Manuel GuinardGuinard (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Dane SweenySweeny (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Go SoedaSoeda – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Filip HoranskyHoransky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicola KuhnKuhn (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Akira SantillanSantillan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
