Eduard Esteve Lobato and Oriol Roca Batalla will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Madrid Challenger for the 14th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on 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 Eduard Esteve Lobato who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Eduard Esteve Lobato is the pick to win this match.
Eduard Esteve Lobato -> 1.73
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Eduard Esteve Lobato vs. Oriol Roca Batalla
This will be the 14th time that Eduard Esteve Lobato and Oriol Roca Batalla play each other. The head to head is 9-4 for Roca Batalla (see full H2H stats), 8-4 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Esteve Lobato won 3-6 6-1 7-5 in the semifinal in M25 Frankfurt am Main back in 2021.
Eduard Esteve Lobato
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2023 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 20-18 | 0-0 | 20-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 40-20 | 0-0 | 40-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 11-9 | 1-1 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2019 | 38-20 | 0-0 | 38-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 282, Esteve Lobato reached the qualifications after defeating Martin Cuevas 6-2 3-6 7-62.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard defeated Cuevas (6-2 3-6 7-62). During the match, Esteve Lobato scored 94 points vs Cuevas’s 80. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Regarding the service games, Esteve Lobato struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Eduard Esteve Lobato was very effective on serve to win 77% (43/56) of his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Spaniard broke Cuevas 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Esteve Lobato has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of his matches (156-84). 11-5 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Esteve Lobato has a compiled 155-83 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Esteve Lobato’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Weston.
Eduard has a compiled 11-5 win-loss record in 2022, 11-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Madrid Challenger
Eduard has never competed in this tournament before.
Oriol Roca Batalla
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 32-31 | 5-7 | 27-22 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 50-38 | 8-4 | 42-34 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 50-26 | 0-0 | 50-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 25-21 | 0-1 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 11-10 | 0-1 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 320, Oriol got to the qualifications after defeating Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Oriol had a good straight sets win against Sanchez Jover (6-1 6-4). During the match Roca Batalla scored 75 points vs Sanchez Jover’s 55. Roca Batalla was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Roca Batalla made 7 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Oriol Roca Batalla was exceptionally effective on serve to win 79% (31/39) of his 1st serve and 55% (11/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Spaniard broke Sanchez Jover 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Oriol’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Cairo and M25 Porec.
Oriol has a compiled 17-5 win-loss record in 2022, 17-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Esteve Lobato | Roca Batalla |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
Tot Games | 30 | 17 |
Pts | 94-80 | 75-55 |
Total Points | 174 | 130 |
Winners | 43 | 31 |
%Winners | 46% | 41% |
Both Esteve Lobato and Roca Batalla played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Eduard Esteve Lobato conceded 1 set while Oriol Roca Batalla hasn’t dropped a set so far. Esteve Lobato has played 1 set more than Roca Batalla (3 vs 2). Therefore, Esteve Lobato played 13 games more than Roca Batalla. The Spaniard scored 43 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard recorded 31 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Esteve Lobato | Roca Batalla |
---|---|---|
Aces | 3 | 7 |
Avg per match | 3 | 7 |
1st in | 56/85 | 39/59 |
%1st in | 66% | 66% |
1st pts | 43/56 | 31/39 |
%1st pts | 77% | 79% |
2nd pts | 18/29 | 11/20 |
%2nd pts | 62% | 55% |
Esteve Lobato struck 3 aces . Roca Batalla blasted 7 aces . Esteve Lobato won 77% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Roca Batalla won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Esteve Lobato | Roca Batalla |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 3 |
Converted | 3/6 | 3/10 |
% Converted | 50% | 30% |
Conceded | 5 | 4 |
Saved | 3 | 4 |
% Saved | 60% | 100% |
Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
The Spaniard broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Eduard conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Oriol broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Oriol was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
Esteve Lobato | |||
Q1 Cuevas |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 3-6 7-62 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
pts | 94-80 | 94-80 | |
Total points | 174 | 174 | |
Winners | 43 | 43 | |
%Winners | 46% | 46% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 3 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 56/85 | 56/85 | |
% 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
1st pts | 43/56 | 43/56 | |
% 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 18/29 | 18/29 | |
% 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Roca Batalla | |||
Q1 Sanchez Jover |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
pts | 75-55 | 75-55 | |
Total points | 130 | 130 | |
Winners | 31 | 31 | |
%Winners | 41% | 41% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 7 | 7 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
1st in | 39/59 | 39/59 | |
% 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
1st pts | 31/39 | 31/39 | |
% 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
2nd pts | 11/20 | 11/20 | |
% 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
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