Jiri Vesely and Norbert Gombos will face off in the 2nd round of the Marbella Challenger for the 9th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jiri Vesely who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jiri Vesely is the pick to win this match.
Jiri Vesely -> 1.43
Norbert Gombos -> 2.83
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Prediction and head to head Jiri Vesely vs. Norbert Gombos
This will be the 9th time that Jiri Vesely and Norbert Gombos play each other. The head to head is 7-1 for Vesely (see full H2H stats), 5-1 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Vesely won 6-4 6-4 in the final in the Captif Challenger back in 2021.
Jiri Vesely
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-16 | 0-4 | 6-8 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-15 | 5-3 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 20-19 | 12-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-27 | 4-5 | 8-12 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 9-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 77, Vesely reached the 2nd round after beating Andrey Kuznetsov 6-72 7-63 6-1.
In the 1st round against Kuznetsov, The Czech recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 7-63 6-1). During the match, Vesely scored 102 points vs Kuznetsov’s 83. The Czech was very aggressive to blast 58 winners.
Regarding the service games, Vesely scored 10 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Jiri Vesely was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (58/75) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Czech broke Kuznetsov 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Vesely has a favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (316-225). 1-1 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Vesely has a composed 143-91 match record in the last years on clay.
Vesely’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Dubai.
Jiri has an overall 12-8 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Marbella Challenger
Norbert Gombos
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-11 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-23 | 2-4 | 11-10 | 4-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-28 | 7-3 | 28-17 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-30 | 0-9 | 13-10 | 12-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-11 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 112, the Slovakian got to the 2nd round after beating Carlos Gimeno Valero 6-4 6-1.
In the 1st round, Gombos had a good straight sets win against Gimeno Valero (6-4 6-1). During the match Gombos scored 68 points vs Gimeno Valero’s 44. Gombos was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Gombos scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Norbert Gombos was quite effective on serve to win 89% (24/27) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Norbert broke Gimeno Valero 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
The Slovakian has a compiled 5-6 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Marbella Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018 and 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vesely | Gombos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 17 |
| Pts | 102-83 | 68-44 |
| Total Points | 185 | 112 |
| Winners | 58 | 24 |
| %Winners | 57% | 35% |
Both Vesely and Gombos played 1 match. At the moment, Jiri Vesely surrendered 1 set while Norbert Gombos hasn’t lost a set so far. Vesely has played 1 set more than Gombos (3 vs 2). Therefore, Vesely played 16 games more than Gombos. Jiri scored 58 winners (57% of the total points). On the other side, Gombos managed to score 24 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vesely | Gombos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 1 |
| 1st in | 75/92 | 27/44 |
| %1st in | 82% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 58/75 | 24/27 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 89% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 10/17 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 59% |
Vesely recorded 10 aces . Gombos blasted 1 ace . Vesely won 77% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Gombos won 89% 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 | Vesely | Gombos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 67% | 40% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 33% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Jiri broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Vesely lost his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The Slovakian broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Slovakian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Vesely | |||
| R1 Kuznetsov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-72 7-63 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 33 | 33 | |
| pts | 102-83 | 102-83 | |
| Total points | 185 | 185 | |
| Winners | 58 | 58 | |
| %Winners | 57% | 57% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 75/92 | 75/92 | |
| % 1st in | 82% | 82% | |
| 1st pts | 58/75 | 58/75 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Gombos | |||
| R1 Gimeno |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-44 | 68-44 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 27/44 | 27/44 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 24/27 | 24/27 | |
| % 1st pts | 89% | 89% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Lukas KleinKlein (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Pedro CachinCachin – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
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- Elias YmerYmer – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Norbert GombosGombos – Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-3 7-61) – See score progression
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Jiri LeheckaLehecka (2-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-2 6-75 6-3) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (6-72 7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Mario Vilella MartinezVilella Martinez (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Carlos TabernerTaberner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo AndujarAndujar – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Norbert GombosGombos – Jiri VeselyVesely (1-7) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Federico GaioGaio (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elias YmerYmer – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Alex MolcanMolcan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-0) – H2H and prediction
