H2H, PREDICTION Marek Gengel vs Mircea-Alexandru Jecan | Istanbul Challenger odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Marek Gengel vs. Mircea-Alexandru Jecan

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.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marek Gengel who should win in 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs 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

Marek Gengel
Marek Gengel

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
299
High
256
WWWLWWLWWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 69-25 66-21 3-4 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

Gengel
Istanbul Challenger
Gengel's Record

Mircea-Alexandru Jecan

Mircea-Alexandru Jecan
Mircea-Alexandru Jecan

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
900
High
450
LLLWLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 1-6 0-0 1-6 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).

Jecan
Istanbul Challenger
Jecan's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Gengel
M.Jecan
0h:40
0h:40
Time on court​
!
1h:41
1h:41
!
0h:40
0h:40
Last match​
1h:41
1h:41
1
1
Match played
1
1
13
13
Games Played​
22
22
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
53
53
Total points​
81
81
53
53
Avg point​
81
81
20
20
Winners
34
34
20
20
Avg Winners​
34
34
38%
38%
Ratio winners
42%
42%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
2
2
7
7
Avg Aces
2
2
0
0
Double Faults
0
0
0
0
Avg Double Faults
0
0
20/23
20/23
1st won total​
34/51
34/51
!
87%
87%
1st won %
67%
67%
9/17
9/17
2nd won total​
7/23
7/23
53%
53%
2nd won %
!
30%
30%
-- Break Points --
5/9
5/9
BP won
6/14
6/14
5/9
5/9
Avg BP won
6/14
6/14
!
56%
56%
Won
43%
43%
2
2
Conceded
10
10
2
2
Avg Conceded
10
10
0
0
Broken
5
5
!
0
0
Avg Broken
!
5
5
2
2
Saved
5
5

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

Win Loss
Gengel
WWWLWWLWWW
Jecan
LLLWLLL
2024 2023 2022
69 - 25
1 - 6
66-21
Hard
0-0
3-4
Clay
1-6
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