Lucas Pouille and Oriol Roca Batalla will square off in the 2nd round of the Madrid Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucas Pouille who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lucas Pouille is the pick to win this match.
Lucas Pouille -> 1.44
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head Lucas Pouille vs. Oriol Roca Batalla
There is no head to head record between Lucas Pouille and Oriol Roca Batalla since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Lucas Pouille
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-12 | 9-2 | 8-5 | 4-5 | 4-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-10 | 3-2 | 7-5 | 4-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 7-15 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 4-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-24 | 7-3 | 2-7 | 7-10 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 138, Pouille got to the 2nd round after defeating Maximilian Marterer 6-0 7-64.
In the 1st round, Lucas had a good straight sets win against Marterer (6-0 7-64). During the match, Pouille scored 78 points vs Marterer’s 59. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Regarding the service games, Pouille made 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Lucas Pouille lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Pouille put 56% of his first serves in, winning 85% (33/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (12/31) on the 2nd serve. Pouille broke Marterer 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Pouille has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (270-202). 1-0 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Pouille has a compiled 92-58 match record in the last years on clay.
Pouille has an overall 5-7 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Madrid Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Oriol Roca Batalla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-20 | 5-6 | 15-12 | 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. 316, Roca Batalla reached the 2nd round after defeating Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-1 6-4, Eduard Esteve Lobato 4-6 6-3 0-0 ret. and Timofey Skatov 4-6 7-64 6-4.
In the 1st round against Skatov, Roca Batalla recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-64 6-4). During the match Roca Batalla and Skatov scored the same amount of points (104). However, the world no. 138 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Roca Batalla was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Roca Batalla scored 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Oriol Roca Batalla was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (43/60) of his 1st serve and 52% (25/48) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Roca Batalla broke Skatov 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Roca Batalla’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Cairo and M25 Porec.
The Spaniard has an overall 19-5 win-loss record in 2022, 19-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Pouille | Roca Batalla |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 69 |
| Pts | 78-59 | 236-212 |
| Total Points | 137 | 448 |
| Winners | 33 | 102 |
| %Winners | 42% | 43% |
Pouille played 1 match while Roca Batalla competed in 3 matches. Roca Batalla started his run from the qualifications while Pouille had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Oriol Roca Batalla lost 2 sets while Lucas Pouille hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Pouille has played 7 set(s) less than Roca Batalla (2 vs 9). Therefore, Pouille played 50 games less than Roca Batalla. Pouille scored 33 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Oriol struck 102 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Pouille | Roca Batalla |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4.7 |
| 1st in | 39/70 | 139/225 |
| %1st in | 56% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 33/39 | 102/139 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 12/31 | 44/86 |
| %2nd pts | 39% | 51% |
Pouille managed to score 5 aces . Roca Batalla blasted 14 aces (4.7 per match). Pouille won 85% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 39% of the points. On the other side, Roca Batalla won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Pouille | Roca Batalla |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 9 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 9/20 |
| % Converted | 40% | 45% |
| Conceded | 4 | 15 |
| Saved | 3 | 9 |
| % Saved | 75% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 6 |
Pouille broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Pouille lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Spaniard broke his opponents 9 times with a 45% conversion rate. Oriol conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Pouille | |||
| R1 Marterer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 78-59 | 78-59 | |
| Total points | 137 | 137 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/70 | 39/70 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 33/39 | 33/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/31 | 12/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 39% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Roca Batalla | |||||
| Q1 Sanchez Jover |
Q3 Esteve Lobato |
R1 Skatov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | 4-6 6-3 0-0 ret. | 4-6 7-64 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 19 | 33 | 69 | |
| pts | 75-55 | 57-53 | 104-104 | 236-212 | |
| Total points | 130 | 110 | 208 | 448 | |
| Winners | 31 | 28 | 43 | 102 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 49% | 41% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 39/59 | 40/58 | 60/108 | 139/225 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 69% | 56% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 28/40 | 43/60 | 102/139 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 70% | 72% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/20 | 8/18 | 25/48 | 44/86 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 44% | 52% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |
| Converted | 3/10 | 3/4 | 3/6 | 9/20 | |
| Converted % | 30% | 75% | 50% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 2/5 | 3/6 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 40% | 50% | 190% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
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