Cezar Cretu and Daniel Merida Aguilar will face off in the qualifications of the Seville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on PISTA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Cezar Cretu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cezar Cretu is the pick to win this match.
Cezar Cretu -> 1.56
Daniel Merida Aguilar -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Cezar Cretu vs. Daniel Merida Aguilar
There is no head to head record between Cezar Cretu and Daniel Merida Aguilar since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Cezar Cretu
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| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-22 | 13-9 | 42-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-19 | 0-3 | 41-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 14-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 401 (career-high), Cezar got to the qualifications after beating Quentin Folliot 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Folliot (6-3 6-1). During the match, Cretu scored 67 points vs Folliot’s 47. Cretu was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Cretu wasn’t able to score even 1 ace and he committed only 3 double faults. Cezar Cretu was extremely efficient on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Cretu broke Folliot 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Cretu has a solid match record in the last 5 years having won 69% of his matches (122-54). 45-18 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Cretu has a composed108-46 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
Cretu’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Cairo,M15 Bucharest and M15 Craiova.
Cezar has a composed 45-18 win-loss record in 2022, 45-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Seville Challenger
Cezar has never competed in this tournament before.
Daniel Merida Aguilar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-17 | 7-4 | 23-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 16-13 | 20-17 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-26 | 8-9 | 21-16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-14 | 1-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 536, the Spaniard got to the qualifications after defeating Ugo Blanchet 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Merida had a good straight sets win against Blanchet (6-4 7-5). During the match Merida scored 70 points vs Blanchet’s 58. Daniel was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Merida fired 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Daniel Merida Aguilar was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Merida was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Blanchet 4 times.
Merida’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Valldoreix.
Merida has a composed 25-18 win-loss record in 2022, 18-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Cretu | Merida |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 22 |
| Pts | 67-47 | 70-58 |
| Total Points | 114 | 128 |
| Winners | 25 | 22 |
| %Winners | 37% | 31% |
Both Cretu and Merida 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, Cretu and Merida have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Cretu played 6 games less than Merida. Cezar scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Daniel managed to score 22 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Cretu | Merida |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 4 |
| 1st in | 32/49 | 31/66 |
| %1st in | 65% | 47% |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 22/31 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 20/35 |
| %2nd pts | 59% | 57% |
Cretu didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Merida managed to score 4 aces . Cretu won 78% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 59% of the points. On the other side, Merida won 71% of the points behind 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 | Cretu | Merida |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 40% | 100% |
| Conceded | 2 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Cezar broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Cezar pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. Merida broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Daniel conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Cretu | |||
| Q1 Folliot |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 67-47 | 67-47 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 32/49 | 32/49 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 25/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Merida | |||
| Q1 Blanchet |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 70-58 | 70-58 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 31/66 | 31/66 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/35 | 20/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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