Bjorn Fratangelo and Mikael Torpegaard will play each other in the 2nd round of the Columbus Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Bjorn Fratangelo who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Bjorn Fratangelo is the pick to win this match.
Bjorn Fratangelo -> 1.36
Mikael Torpegaard -> 3.15
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Prediction and head to head Bjorn Fratangelo vs. Mikael Torpegaard
This will be the 2nd time that Bjorn Fratangelo and Mikael Torpegaard play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fratangelo (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Fratangelo won 6-2 6-1 in the qualifications in Indian wells back in 2021.
Bjorn Fratangelo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6-7 | 4-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 16-17 | 7-8 | 6-4 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-20 | 13-10 | 12-7 | 8-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 25-20 | 15-11 | 3-6 | 3-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 158, Bjorn got to the 2nd round after beating Nicolas Mejia 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Bjorn had a good straight sets win against Mejia (6-1 6-2). During the match, Fratangelo scored 68 points vs Mejia’s 46. The American was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Fratangelo made 8 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Bjorn Fratangelo conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Fratangelo put 67% of his first serves in, winning 88% (23/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (6/13) on the 2nd serve. Bjorn broke Mejia 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Fratangelo has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 63% of his matches (346-207). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Fratangelo has an aggregate 38-20 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Fratangelo’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Traralgon Challenger.
Bjorn has an overall 5-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Mikael Torpegaard
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8-15 | 0-3 | 4-6 | 4-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-23 | 6-12 | 3-4 | 2-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-8 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2019 | 34-23 | 10-9 | 3-5 | 20-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 22-12 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 230, the Dane got to the 2nd round after beating Michael Mmoh 6-4 7-63.
In the 1st round, The Dane had a good straight sets win against Mmoh (6-4 7-63). During the match Torpegaard scored 85 points vs Mmoh’s 75. The Dane was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Torpegaard recorded 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Mikael Torpegaard was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (39/52) of his 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Dane broke Mmoh twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Torpegaard has a compiled 1-2 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2016. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Fratangelo | Torpegaard |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 23 |
| Pts | 68-46 | 85-75 |
| Total Points | 114 | 160 |
| Winners | 23 | 39 |
| %Winners | 34% | 46% |
Both Fratangelo and Torpegaard played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Fratangelo and Torpegaard have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Fratangelo played 8 games less than Torpegaard. Bjorn scored 23 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Torpegaard managed to score 39 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Fratangelo | Torpegaard |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 3 |
| 1st in | 26/39 | 52/81 |
| %1st in | 67% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 39/52 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 6/13 | 15/29 |
| %2nd pts | 46% | 52% |
Fratangelo made 8 aces . Torpegaard managed to score 3 aces . Fratangelo won 88% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points. On the other side, Torpegaard won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Fratangelo | Torpegaard |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 2/5 |
| % Converted | 50% | 40% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Fratangelo broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The American very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Mikael broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Torpegaard conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Fratangelo | |||
| R1 Mejia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 68-46 | 68-46 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/39 | 26/39 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 23/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Torpegaard | |||
| R1 Mmoh |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 85-75 | 85-75 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 52/81 | 52/81 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 39/52 | 39/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 15/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Jeff WolfWolf (6-2 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker – Stefan KozlovKozlov (4-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jack SockSock – Go SoedaSoeda (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio GomezGomez – Nicola KuhnKuhn (7-66 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jack SockSock – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Emilio GomezGomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Jurij RodionovRodionov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
