Martin Cuevas and Jakub Mensik will square off in the quarter of the Prague 3 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. 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 Martin Cuevas who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Martin Cuevas is the pick to win this match.
Martin Cuevas -> 1.65
Jakub Mensik -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Martin Cuevas vs. Jakub Mensik
There is no head to head record between Martin Cuevas and Jakub Mensik since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Martin Cuevas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-23 | 0-1 | 30-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-15 | 0-1 | 14-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-14 | 6-4 | 8-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 415, the Uruguayan got to the quarter after beating Jiri Jenicek 7-5 4-6 6-1, Francesco Forti 6-4 3-6 6-3, Martin Krumich 2-6 6-3 6-3 and Marek Gengel 6-0 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Martin had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-0 6-1). During the match, Cuevas scored 55 points vs Gengel’s 26. Martin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cuevas blasted 4 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Martin Cuevas conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Cuevas put 49% of his first serves in, winning 95% (19/20) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (10/21) on the 2nd serve. Martin broke Gengel 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Martin started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 3 set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
Cuevas has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (239-154). 27-13 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Cuevas has an overall 232-146 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Cuevas’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Antalya.
Cuevas has a composed 27-13 win-loss record in 2022, 27-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Prague 3 Challenger
The Uruguayan has never competed in this tournament before.
Jakub Mensik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-21 | 23-11 | 6-4 | 2-1 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 10-6 | 17-11 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-16 | 18-4 | 17-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 882, the Czech reached the quarter after beating Adrian Menendez-Maceiras 6-3 4-0 ret. and Lukas Rosol 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Mensik had a good straight sets win against Rosol (6-2 6-4). During the match Mensik scored 79 points vs Rosol’s 59. Mensik was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Mensik made 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Jakub Mensik conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Mensik put 57% of his first serves in, winning 85% (29/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Mensik broke Rosol 3 times after converting 23% of his break points (3/13).
Mensik’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Most.
Jakub has an aggregate 10-11 win-loss record in 2022, 7-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Prague 3 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cuevas | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 4 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 11 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 96 | 31 |
| Pts | 326-269 | 136-99 |
| Total Points | 595 | 235 |
| Winners | 116 | 43 |
| %Winners | 36% | 32% |
Cuevas played 4 matches while Mensik competed in 2 matches. Cuevas started his run from the qualifications while Mensik had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Martin Cuevas dropped 3 sets while Jakub Mensik hasn’t dropped a set so far. Cuevas has played 6 sets more than Mensik (11 vs 5). Therefore, Cuevas played 65 games more than Mensik. Martin scored 116 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Jakub managed to score 43 winners (32%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cuevas | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 22 | 11 |
| Avg per match | 5.5 | 5.5 |
| 1st in | 140/283 | 54/107 |
| %1st in | 49% | 50% |
| 1st pts | 116/140 | 43/54 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 72/143 | 29/53 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 55% |
Cuevas scored 22 aces (5.5 per match). Mensik blasted 11 aces (5.5 per match). Cuevas won 83% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Mensik won 80% 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 | Cuevas | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 16 | 7 |
| Converted | 16/33 | 7/22 |
| % Converted | 48% | 32% |
| Conceded | 16 | 3 |
| Saved | 9 | 3 |
| % Saved | 56% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 7 | 0 |
Martin broke his opponents 16 times with a 48% conversion rate. The Uruguayan surrendered his serve 7 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. Jakub broke his opponents 7 times with a 32% conversion rate. Mensik was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Cuevas | ||||||
| Q1 Jenicek |
Q3 Forti |
R1 Krumich |
R2 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 4-6 6-1 | 6-4 3-6 6-3 | 2-6 6-3 6-3 | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 28 | 26 | 13 | 96 | |
| pts | 97-80 | 94-86 | 80-77 | 55-26 | 326-269 | |
| Total points | 177 | 180 | 157 | 81 | 595 | |
| Winners | 29 | 40 | 28 | 19 | 116 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 43% | 35% | 35% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 22 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 25 | |
| 1st in | 36/84 | 47/90 | 37/68 | 20/41 | 140/283 | |
| % 1st in | 43% | 52% | 54% | 49% | 49% | |
| 1st pts | 29/36 | 40/47 | 28/37 | 19/20 | 116/140 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 85% | 76% | 95% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 27/48 | 18/43 | 17/31 | 10/21 | 72/143 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 42% | 55% | 48% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 3/6 | 4/10 | 5/10 | 16/33 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 16 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 6/8 | 0/3 | 1/1 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 75% | 0% | 100% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |
| Mensik | ||||||
| R1 Menendez-Maceiras |
R2 Rosol |
Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-0 ret. | 6-2 6-4 | ||||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Tot Games | 13 | 18 | 31 | |||
| pts | 57-40 | 79-59 | 136-99 | |||
| Total points | 97 | 138 | 235 | |||
| Winners | 14 | 29 | 43 | |||
| %Winners | 25% | 37% | 32% | |||
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 3 | 8 | 11 | |||
| Double Faults | 3 | 5 | 8 | |||
| 1st in | 20/47 | 34/60 | 54/107 | |||
| % 1st in | 43% | 57% | 50% | |||
| 1st pts | 14/20 | 29/34 | 43/54 | |||
| % 1st pts | 70% | 85% | 80% | |||
| 2nd pts | 17/27 | 12/26 | 29/53 | |||
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 46% | 55% | |||
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/13 | 7/22 | |||
| Converted % | 44% | 23% | 32% | |||
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Saved | 0/0 | 3/3 | 3 | |||
| Saved % | – | 100% | 25% | |||
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
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