Gilbert Klier Junior and Jakub Paul will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Mexico City Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on CANCHA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Gilbert Klier Junior who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Gilbert Klier Junior is the pick to win this match.
Gilbert Klier Junior -> 1.57
Jakub Paul -> 2.25

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Prediction and head to head Gilbert Klier Junior vs. Jakub Paul

There is no head to head record between Gilbert Klier Junior and Jakub Paul since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Gilbert Klier Junior

Ranked no. 406,he will start his run in the Mexico City Challenger after he played his last match in the Mexico City Challenger where he beat 6-4 6-2 to Reinberg in the qualifications on the 3^rd of April.

The Brazilian has an overall 7-5 win-loss record in 2022, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Brazilian has an overall 49-33 record. He has a positive 24-18 record on clay.

Previously in the Mexico City Challenger

Gilbert has never competed in this tournament before.

Jakub Paul

Ranked no. 454, Jakub got to the qualifications after beating Alonso Alejandro Delgado 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications, Jakub had a good straight sets win against Alejandro Delgado (6-2 6-2). During the match Paul scored 70 points vs Alejandro Delgado’s 48. Jakub was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Paul wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 7 double faults. Jakub Paul lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Paul put 64% of his first serves in, winning 72% (26/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Alejandro Delgado 6 times after converting 33% of his break points (6/18).

Paul’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.

Paul has a composed 6-8 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Klier Junior	Paul
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	18	16
Pts	73-50	70-48
Total Points	123	118
Winners	21	26
%Winners	29%	37%

Both Klier Junior and Paul played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Klier Junior and Paul have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Klier Junior played 2 games more than Paul. Klier Junior scored 21 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, The Swiss scored 26 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Klier Junior	Paul
Aces	2	0
Avg per match	2	0
1st in	27/52	36/56
%1st in	52%	64%
1st pts	21/27	26/36
%1st pts	78%	72%
2nd pts	17/25	8/20
%2nd pts	68%	40%

Klier Junior blasted 2 aces . Paul didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Klier Junior won 78% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Paul won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 40% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Klier Junior	Paul
Won	4	6
Converted	4/12	6/18
% Converted	33%	33%
Conceded	3	4
Saved	2	2
% Saved	67%	50%
Times Broken	1	2

The Brazilian broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Gilbert surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Paul broke his opponent 6 times with a 33% conversion rate. Jakub conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Klier Junior
	Total
Score
Tot Set	0
Tot Games	0
pts	0-0
Total points	0
Winners	0
%Winners	0%
SERVE
Aces	0
Double Faults	0
1st in	0/0
% 1st in	0%
1st pts	0/0
% 1st pts	%
2nd pts	0/0
% 2nd pts	0%
Breaks
Won	0
Converted	0/0
Converted %	0%
Conceded	0
Saved	0
Saved %	0%
Times Broken	0

Paul
	Q1 Alejandro	Total
Score	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	70-48	70-48
Total points	118	118
Winners	26	26
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	36/56	36/56
% 1st in	64%	64%
1st pts	26/36	26/36
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	8/20	8/20
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/18	6/18
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	0%
Times Broken	2	2

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