Alex Molcan and Taro Daniel will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 2:30 pm on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Taro Daniel who should win in 3 sets.
Taro Daniel -> 1.76
Alex Molcan -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Alex Molcan vs. Taro Daniel
There is no head to head record between Alex Molcan and Taro Daniel since this will be the first time that they will play 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. 73, Alex got to the qualifications after defeating Mohamed Safwat 7-62 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Safwat (7-62 6-3). During the match, Molcan scored 82 points vs Safwat’s 70. The Slovakian was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Molcan struck 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Alex Molcan was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (33/42) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Molcan broke Safwat twice after converting 17% of his break points (2/12).
Molcan has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 63% of his matches (204-120). 5-3 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Molcan has a composed54-27 record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Slovakian has an overall 5-4 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Alex has never competed in this tournament before.
Taro Daniel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12-31 | 10-19 | 1-8 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-33 | 16-16 | 5-11 | 9-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-30 | 34-16 | 7-10 | 2-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 43-29 | 27-17 | 12-7 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-25 | 5-7 | 21-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 110, Daniel got to the qualifications after beating Elias Ymer 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Daniel had a good straight sets win against Ymer (6-1 6-4). During the match Daniel scored 64 points vs Ymer’s 43. The Japanese was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Daniel scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Taro Daniel was quite effective on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 59% (13/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Daniel broke Ymer 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Daniel has a composed 9-3 win-loss record in 2022, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Molcan | Daniel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 |
| Pts | 82-70 | 64-43 |
| Total Points | 152 | 107 |
| Winners | 33 | 25 |
| %Winners | 40% | 39% |
Both Molcan and Daniel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Molcan and Daniel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Molcan played 5 games more than Daniel. Alex scored 33 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 25 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Molcan | Daniel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 42/68 | 31/53 |
| %1st in | 62% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 33/42 | 25/31 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 16/26 | 13/22 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 59% |
Molcan recorded 7 aces . Daniel bagged 3 aces . Molcan won 79% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Daniel 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 | Molcan | Daniel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/12 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 17% | 40% |
| Conceded | 2 | 1 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Molcan broke his opponent twice with a 17% conversion rate. Alex pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. The Japanese broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Japanese conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Molcan | |||
| Q1 Safwat | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 82-70 | 82-70 | |
| Total points | 152 | 152 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 42/68 | 42/68 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 33/42 | 33/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/26 | 16/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/12 | 2/12 | |
| Converted % | 17% | 17% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Daniel | |||
| Q1 Ymer | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-43 | 64-43 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 31/53 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 25/31 | 25/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/22 | 13/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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