Joao Domingues and Lucas Gerch will fight against each other in the semifinal of the Prague 3 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucas Gerch who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Lucas Gerch is the pick to win this match.
Lucas Gerch -> 1.79
Joao Domingues -> 1.98

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Prediction and head to head Joao Domingues vs. Lucas Gerch

There is no head to head record between Joao Domingues and Lucas Gerch since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Joao Domingues

Ranked no. 299, Domingues reached the semifinal after beating Tristan Lamasine 6-2 6-1, Matej Vocel 6-3 6-1, Vitaliy Sachko 7-5 7-5 and Mariano Navone 7-6³ 6-3.

In the quarter, Domingues had a good straight sets win against Navone (7-6³ 6-3). During the match, Domingues scored 90 points vs Navone’s 73. The Portuguese was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Domingues was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Joao Domingues lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Domingues put 57% of his first serves in, winning 62% (29/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (20/36) on the 2nd serve. Joao broke Navone 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Joao started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Domingues has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (331-231). 21-14 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Domingues has an aggregate 213-157 record in the last years on clay.

The Portuguese’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Salvador De Bahia Challenger.

Joao has a compiled 21-17 win-loss record in 2022, 21-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Prague 3 Challenger

Lucas Gerch

Ranked no. 383, Lucas reached the semifinal after defeating Cem Ilkel 6-4 6-2, Adrian Andreev 6-4 6-4 and Matteo Gigante 7-5 6-2.

In the quarter, Gerch had a good straight sets win against Gigante (7-5 6-2). During the match Gerch scored 66 points vs Gigante’s 51. The German was extremely aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about serving, Gerch scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Lucas Gerch lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gerch put 53% of his first serves in, winning 55% (17/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the 2nd serve. Gerch broke Gigante 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The German hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.

The German’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Cancun and M15 Ueberlingen.

Gerch has a composed 41-18 win-loss record in 2022, 28-13 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Domingues	Gerch
Match played	4	3
Tot Set	8	6
Tot Games	77	58
Pts	301-234	195-147
Total Points	535	342
Winners	89	69
%Winners	30%	35%

Domingues played 4 matches while Gerch competed in 3 matches. Domingues started his run from the qualifications while Gerch had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Domingues has played 2 sets more than Gerch (8 vs 6). Therefore, Domingues played 19 games more than Gerch. Domingues scored 89 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, Lucas scored 69 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Domingues	Gerch
Aces	3	4
Avg per match	0.8	1.3
1st in	141/256	94/169
%1st in	55%	56%
1st pts	89/141	69/94
%1st pts	63%	73%
2nd pts	66/115	47/75
%2nd pts	57%	63%

Domingues managed to score 3 aces (0.8 per match). Gerch fired 4 aces (1.3 per match). Domingues won 63% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Gerch won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Domingues	Gerch
Won	22	11
Converted	22/48	11/23
% Converted	46%	48%
Conceded	20	10
Saved	11	7
% Saved	55%	70%
Times Broken	9	3

The Portuguese broke his opponents 22 times with a 46% conversion rate. The Portuguese dropped his serve 9 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded. Gerch broke his opponents 11 times with a 48% conversion rate. Gerch conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.

Domingues
	Q3 Lamasine	R1 Vocel	R2 Sachko	1/4 Navone	Total
Score	6-2 6-1	6-3 6-1	7-5 7-5	7-63 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	15	16	24	22	77
pts	59-39	65-46	87-76	90-73	301-234
Total points	98	111	163	163	535
Winners	22	18	20	29	89
%Winners	37%	28%	23%	32%	30%
SERVE
Aces	2	0	1	0	3
Double Faults	1	3	1	0	5
1st in	34/49	24/50	36/74	47/83	141/256
% 1st in	69%	48%	49%	57%	55%
1st pts	22/34	18/24	20/36	29/47	89/141
% 1st pts	65%	75%	56%	62%	63%
2nd pts	11/15	12/26	23/38	20/36	66/115
% 2nd pts	73%	46%	61%	56%	57%
Breaks
Won	5	6	6	5	22
Converted	5/11	6/13	6/14	5/10	22/48
Converted %	45%	46%	43%	50%	46%
Conceded	1	4	4	11	20
Saved	1/1	2/4	0/4	8/11	11
Saved %	100%	50%	0%	73%	56%
Times Broken	0	2	4	3	9

Gerch
	R1 Ilkel	R2 Andreev	1/4 Gigante	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	6-4 6-4	7-5 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	18	20	20	58
pts	62-39	67-57	66-51	195-147
Total points	101	124	117	342
Winners	24	28	17	69
%Winners	39%	42%	26%	35%
SERVE
Aces	2	1	1	4
Double Faults	2	3	5	10
1st in	28/50	35/61	31/58	94/169
% 1st in	56%	57%	53%	56%
1st pts	24/28	28/35	17/31	69/94
% 1st pts	86%	80%	55%	73%
2nd pts	14/22	17/26	16/27	47/75
% 2nd pts	64%	65%	59%	63%
Breaks
Won	3	2	6	11
Converted	3/5	2/8	6/10	11/23
Converted %	60%	25%	60%	48%
Conceded	2	2	6	10
Saved	2/2	2/2	3/6	7
Saved %	100%	100%	50%	63%
Times Broken	0	0	3	3

Tennis Scores in Prague 3 Challenger

• Lucas GerchGerch – Matteo GiganteGigante (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Jakub MensikMensik – Martin CuevasCuevas (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (6-4 3-6 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Joao DominguesDomingues – Mariano NavoneNavone (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Milos Karol/Vitaliy SachkoKarol/Vitaliy Sachko – Karol Drzewiecki/Patrik Niklas-SalminenDrzewiecki/Patrik Niklas-Salminen (6-1 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Lucas GerchGerch – Joao DominguesDomingues (0-0) – H2H and prediction