Oriol Roca Batalla and Mate Valkusz will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Split Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Oriol Roca Batalla who should win in 3 sets.
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 1.82
Mate Valkusz -> 1.94
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Prediction and head to head Oriol Roca Batalla vs. Mate Valkusz
This will be the 2nd time that Oriol Roca Batalla and Mate Valkusz clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Valkusz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Valkusz won 2-6 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in M25 Opatija back in March 2022.
Oriol Roca Batalla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-18 | 0-1 | 20-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-34 | 5-7 | 27-25 | 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 |
Ranked no. 316, Oriol got to the qualifications after beating Otto Virtanen 6-1 7-66.
In the qualifications, Oriol had a good straight sets win against Virtanen (6-1 7-66). During the match, Roca Batalla scored 84 points vs Virtanen’s 68. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Roca Batalla scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Oriol Roca Batalla lost the serve once and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Roca Batalla put 63% of his first serves in, winning 69% (36/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Oriol broke Virtanen 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Roca Batalla has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 67% of his matches (454-227). 20-6 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Roca Batalla has an overall 387-187 record in the last years on clay.
Roca Batalla’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Cairo and M25 Porec.
Roca Batalla has an aggregate 20-6 win-loss record in 2022, 20-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Split Challenger
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Mate Valkusz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-7 | 0-1 | 20-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 6-8 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 5-2 | 23-14 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 33-14 | 5-5 | 27-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-9 | 4-2 | 27-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 356, the Hungarian got to the qualifications after beating Domagoj Biljesko 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Valkusz had a good straight sets win against Biljesko (6-4 6-2). During the match Valkusz scored 59 points vs Biljesko’s 44. Valkusz was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Valkusz scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mate Valkusz lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Valkusz put 71% of his first serves in, winning 64% (23/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the 2nd serve. Mate was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Biljesko 5 times.
The Hungarian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Opatija.
Mate has a composed 13-5 win-loss record in 2022, 10-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Roca Batalla | Valkusz |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 |
| Pts | 84-68 | 59-44 |
| Total Points | 152 | 103 |
| Winners | 36 | 23 |
| %Winners | 43% | 39% |
Both Roca Batalla and Valkusz 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, Roca Batalla and Valkusz have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Roca Batalla played 2 games more than Valkusz. The Spaniard scored 36 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Valkusz struck 23 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Roca Batalla | Valkusz |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 52/82 | 36/51 |
| %1st in | 63% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 36/52 | 23/36 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 10/15 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 67% |
Roca Batalla recorded 1 ace . Valkusz also struck 1 ace . Roca Batalla won 69% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Valkusz won 64% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Roca Batalla | Valkusz |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/11 | 5/5 |
| % Converted | 27% | 100% |
| Conceded | 9 | 3 |
| Saved | 8 | 1 |
| % Saved | 89% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Oriol broke his opponent 3 times with a 27% conversion rate. Roca Batalla conceded his serve once and he saved 89% of the break points that he conceded. Valkusz broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Valkusz conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Roca Batalla | |||
| Q1 Virtanen | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 84-68 | 84-68 | |
| Total points | 152 | 152 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 52/82 | 52/82 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 36/52 | 36/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 3/11 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 8/9 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 89% | 89% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Valkusz | |||
| Q1 Biljesko | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 59-44 | 59-44 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/51 | 36/51 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 23/36 | 23/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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