Michael Geerts and Carlos Lopez Montagud will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Murcia Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on PISTA CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Lopez Montagud who should win in 3 sets.
Carlos Lopez Montagud -> 1.72
Michael Geerts -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Carlos Lopez Montagud
This will be the 2nd time that Michael Geerts and Carlos Lopez Montagud play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Geerts (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Geerts won 6-4 6-4 in the 1st round in M15 Valldoreix back in 2019.
Michael Geerts
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-34 | 22-15 | 10-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 50-37 | 18-11 | 10-12 | 17-13 | 0-1 | 5-0 |
| 2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 336, Michael reached the qualifications after defeating Pablo Martinez Gomez 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Geerts had a good straight sets win against Martinez Gomez (6-3 6-2). During the match, Geerts scored 62 points vs Martinez Gomez’s 42. The Belgian was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Geerts fired 2 aces and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Michael Geerts was exceptionally effective on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 65% (15/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Michael broke Martinez Gomez 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Geerts has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (244-168). 1-1 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Geerts has an aggregate77-62 record in the last 9 years on clay.
Geerts has a compiled 8-10 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.
Carlos Lopez Montagud
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-27 | 0-3 | 33-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-28 | 6-5 | 27-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-16 | 0-0 | 34-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-20 | 0-0 | 47-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-24 | 1-1 | 40-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 597 (career-high), the Spaniard reached the qualifications after defeating Fermin Tenti 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Tenti (6-3 6-2). During the match Lopez scored 70 points vs Tenti’s 53. The Spaniard was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Lopez struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Carlos Lopez Montagud lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Lopez put 76% of his first serves in, winning 57% (30/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 71% (12/17) on the 2nd serve. Carlos broke Tenti 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
The Spaniard’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Palmanova.
Lopez has a compiled 15-5 win-loss record in 2022, 15-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Geerts | Lopez |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 |
| Pts | 62-42 | 70-53 |
| Total Points | 104 | 123 |
| Winners | 24 | 30 |
| %Winners | 39% | 43% |
Both Geerts and Lopez played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Geerts and Lopez have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (17). Michael scored 24 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard fired 30 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Geerts | Lopez |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 28/51 | 53/70 |
| %1st in | 55% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 30/53 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 57% |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 12/17 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 71% |
Geerts struck 2 aces . Lopez struck 2 aces . Geerts won 86% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Lopez won 57% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Geerts | Lopez |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 6 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 6/8 |
| % Converted | 60% | 75% |
| Conceded | 1 | 10 |
| Saved | 1 | 8 |
| % Saved | 100% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Geerts broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Belgian had a solid display on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Spaniard broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Geerts | |||
| Q1 Martinez | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-42 | 62-42 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 28/51 | 28/51 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 24/28 | 24/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 15/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Lopez | |||
| Q1 Tenti | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 70-53 | 70-53 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 53/70 | 53/70 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 30/53 | 30/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 57% | 57% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/17 | 12/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 8/10 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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