Alex Molcan and Pablo Andujar will play each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on Court 17. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Molcan who should win in 5 sets.
Alex Molcan -> 1.68
Pablo Andujar -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Alex Molcan vs. Pablo Andujar
There is no head to head record between Alex Molcan and Pablo Andujar since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Alex Molcan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-15 | 7-3 | 38-10 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 13-17 | 3-5 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-27 | 10-8 | 13-13 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-24 | 7-8 | 18-9 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 65-24 | 8-3 | 42-14 | 13-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 74 (career-high), the Slovakian reached the 2nd round after defeating Roman Safiullin 6-3 7-69 5-7 7-66.
In the 1st round, Molcan had a good straight sets win against Safiullin (6-3 7-69 5-7 7-66). During the match, Molcan scored 156 points vs Safiullin’s 148. The Slovakian was extremely aggressive to blast 81 winners.
Talking about the service games, Molcan fired 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Alex Molcan was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (81/111) of his 1st serve and 58% (22/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Molcan broke Safiullin 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Molcan has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (202-117). 3-1 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Molcan has an aggregate52-25 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Molcan has a composed 3-1 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.
Pablo Andujar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-10 | 1-3 | 0-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-24 | 4-5 | 14-14 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-21 | 3-6 | 12-12 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-15 | 2-6 | 10-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 35-22 | 8-8 | 27-9 | 0-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 83, the Spaniard reached the 2nd round after beating Damir Dzumhur 6-1 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, Andujar had a good straight sets win against Dzumhur (6-1 7-5 6-1). During the match Andujar scored 93 points vs Dzumhur’s 60. Andujar was exceptionally aggressive to blast 48 winners.
About the serving games, Andujar wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Pablo Andujar was very efficient on serve to win 77% (48/62) of his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pablo broke Dzumhur 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
The Spaniard has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2012, 2014 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Molcan | Andujar |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 47 | 26 |
| Pts | 156-148 | 93-60 |
| Total Points | 304 | 153 |
| Winners | 81 | 48 |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% |
Both Molcan and Andujar played 1 match. At the moment, Alex Molcan lost 1 set while Pablo Andujar hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Molcan has played 1 set more than Andujar (4 vs 3). Therefore, Molcan played 21 games more than Andujar. The Slovakian scored 81 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, Andujar struck 48 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Molcan | Andujar |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 0 |
| 1st in | 111/149 | 62/73 |
| %1st in | 74% | 85% |
| 1st pts | 81/111 | 48/62 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 22/38 | 7/11 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 64% |
Molcan made 4 aces . Andujar didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Molcan won 73% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Andujar won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Molcan | Andujar |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/8 | 6/7 |
| % Converted | 38% | 86% |
| Conceded | 6 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Alex broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Slovakian dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Spaniard broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. The Spaniard was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Molcan | |||
| R1 Safiullin | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-69 5-7 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 47 | 47 | |
| pts | 156-148 | 156-148 | |
| Total points | 304 | 304 | |
| Winners | 81 | 81 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 111/149 | 111/149 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 81/111 | 81/111 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/38 | 22/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Andujar | |||
| R1 Dzumhur | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 93-60 | 93-60 | |
| Total points | 153 | 153 | |
| Winners | 48 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 62/73 | 62/73 | |
| % 1st in | 85% | 85% | |
| 1st pts | 48/62 | 48/62 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 7/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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