Marius Copil and Otto Virtanen will square off in the qualifications of the Surbiton Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marius Copil who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marius Copil is the pick to win this match.
Marius Copil -> 1.41
Otto Virtanen -> 2.82
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Prediction and head to head Marius Copil vs. Otto Virtanen
This will be the 2nd time that Marius Copil and Otto Virtanen clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Copil (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they fought against each other, Copil won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Lugano Challenger back in March 2022.
Marius Copil
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-10 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-22 | 17-11 | 9-5 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2022 | 28-27 | 5-0 | 9-13 | 11-10 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-19 | 1-3 | 3-7 | 9-4 | 8-3 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 1-6 | 1-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 252, Copil reached the qualifications after defeating Oscar Weightman 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Marius had a good straight sets win against Weightman (6-3 6-4). During the match, Copil scored 65 points vs Weightman’s 51. Marius was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Copil recorded 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Marius Copil was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marius broke Weightman twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Copil has a favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (272-229). 1-0 on grass in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Copil has an aggregate 39-22 win-loss record in the last years on grass.
Copil’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Portimao.
Marius has a compiled 15-10 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Surbiton Challenger
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-16 | 3-7 | 3-5 | 16-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 376, Otto reached the qualifications after beating Tim Van Rijthoven 6-3 3-6 7-5.
In the qualifications, Virtanen defeated Van Rijthoven (6-3 3-6 7-5). During the match Virtanen scored 95 points vs Van Rijthoven’s 89. Otto was very aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Virtanen recorded 15 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Otto Virtanen was very efficient on serve to win 79% (45/57) of his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Virtanen broke Van Rijthoven twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
Otto’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Vilnius and M15 Kouvola.
The Finn has a composed 18-12 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Copil | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 30 |
| Pts | 65-51 | 95-89 |
| Total Points | 116 | 184 |
| Winners | 30 | 45 |
| %Winners | 46% | 47% |
Both Copil and Virtanen played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Otto Virtanen conceded 1 set while Marius Copil hasn’t lost a set so far. Copil has played 1 set(s) less than Virtanen (2 vs 3). Therefore, Copil played 11 games less than Virtanen. Copil scored 30 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Finn struck 45 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Copil | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 15 |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 57/87 |
| %1st in | 68% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 30/36 | 45/57 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 17/30 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 57% |
Copil recorded 11 aces . Virtanen managed to score 15 aces . Copil won 83% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Virtanen won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Copil | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/10 |
| % Converted | 29% | 20% |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Romanian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Copil extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. Otto broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Virtanen conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Copil | |||
| Q1 Weightman |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 65-51 | 65-51 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/53 | 36/53 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 30/36 | 30/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Virtanen | |||
| Q1 Van Rijthoven |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 95-89 | 95-89 | |
| Total points | 184 | 184 | |
| Winners | 45 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 57/87 | 57/87 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 45/57 | 45/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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