Gastao Elias and Cezar Cretu will play each other in the 1st round of the Zadar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. 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 Gastao Elias who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gastao Elias is the pick to win this match.
Gastao Elias -> 1.3
Cezar Cretu -> 3.4
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Prediction and head to head Gastao Elias vs. Cezar Cretu
There is no head to head record between Gastao Elias and Cezar Cretu since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Gastao Elias
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-15 | 7-4 | 11-9 | 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. 198, the Portuguese will start his run in the Zadar Challenger after he played his last match in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 2 Challenger where he lost 6-2 0-6 7-5 to Skatov in the 2nd round on the 16th of March.
Elias has an overall 6-5 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Gastao has an overall 366-300 record. He has a positive 273-193 record on clay.
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Elias has never competed in this tournament before.
Cezar Cretu
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| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-22 | 13-9 | 42-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-19 | 0-3 | 41-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 14-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 551 (career-high), the Romanian got to the 1st round after defeating Dragos Nicolae Madaras 6-2 4-6 7-66 and Ergi Kirkin 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Cretu had a good straight sets win against Kirkin (7-5 6-3). During the match Cretu scored 77 points vs Kirkin’s 65. The Romanian was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Cretu wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Cezar Cretu lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Cretu put 63% of his first serves in, winning 61% (27/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (14/26) on the 2nd serve. The Romanian broke Kirkin 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cezar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Cretu’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya.
Cezar has an aggregate 19-5 win-loss record in 2022, 19-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrej MartinMartin – Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gastao EliasElias – Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Lukas RosolRosol (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (3-5) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
