Marek Gengel and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan will square off in the qualifications of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am 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 Marek Gengel who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marek Gengel is the pick to win this match.
Marek Gengel -> 1.17
Mircea-Alexandru Jecan -> 4.55
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Prediction and head to head Marek Gengel vs. Mircea-Alexandru Jecan
There is no head to head record between Marek Gengel and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Marek Gengel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-13 | 33-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-27 | 14-15 | 0-7 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-29 | 28-16 | 4-8 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 52-28 | 47-14 | 3-8 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-17 | 16-12 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 382 (career-high), the Czech reached the qualifications after defeating Fernando Romboli 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Marek had a good straight sets win against Romboli (6-0 6-1). During the match, Gengel scored 53 points vs Romboli’s 27. Gengel was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gengel recorded 7 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Marek Gengel was extremely effective on serve to win 87% (20/23) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Gengel broke Romboli 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Gengel has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (201-160). 15-8 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gengel has an overall144-73 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
The Czech’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Czech has a composed 24-20 win-loss record in 2022, 15-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Mircea-Alexandru Jecan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-13 | 0-1 | 12-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-20 | 1-1 | 24-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-23 | 0-1 | 20-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-16 | 1-5 | 6-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 727, Mircea-Alexandru reached the qualifications after beating Courtney John Lock 7-64 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against John Lock (7-64 6-3). During the match Jecan scored 81 points vs John Lock’s 66. Mircea-Alexandru was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Jecan fired 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Mircea-Alexandru Jecan lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Jecan put 69% of his first serves in, winning 67% (34/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 30% (7/23) on the 2nd serve. Mircea-Alexandru broke John Lock 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
Jecan has an overall 12-14 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gengel | Jecan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 22 |
| Pts | 53-27 | 81-66 |
| Total Points | 80 | 147 |
| Winners | 20 | 34 |
| %Winners | 38% | 42% |
Both Gengel and Jecan 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, Gengel and Jecan have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Gengel played 9 games less than Jecan. Gengel scored 20 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Jecan recorded 34 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gengel | Jecan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 2 |
| 1st in | 23/40 | 51/74 |
| %1st in | 58% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 20/23 | 34/51 |
| %1st pts | 87% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 7/23 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 30% |
Gengel recorded 7 aces . Jecan struck 2 aces . Gengel won 87% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Jecan won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 30% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gengel | Jecan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 6/14 |
| % Converted | 56% | 43% |
| Conceded | 2 | 10 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
The Czech broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Marek pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Mircea-Alexandru broke his opponent 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Mircea-Alexandru conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gengel | |||
| Q1 Romboli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 53-27 | 53-27 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 23/40 | 23/40 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 20/23 | 20/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Jecan | |||
| Q1 John |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 81-66 | 81-66 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 51/74 | 51/74 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 34/51 | 34/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/23 | 7/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 30% | 30% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/14 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/10 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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