Radu Albot and Lukas Rosol will face off in the final of the Istanbul Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 3:00 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 Radu Albot who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Radu Albot is the pick to win this match.
Radu Albot -> 1.34
Lukas Rosol -> 3.14
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Prediction and head to head Radu Albot vs. Lukas Rosol
This will be the 2nd time that Radu Albot and Lukas Rosol fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rosol (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Rosol won 6-3 6-3 in the qualifications in Paris back in 2015.
Radu Albot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-26 | 12-9 | 17-11 | 4-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-34 | 10-13 | 13-8 | 12-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-30 | 25-14 | 4-6 | 3-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-27 | 4-9 | 2-8 | 13-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-18 | 0-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 108, the Moldovan got to the final after beating Filip Cristian Jianu 7-66 6-4, Henri Squire 6-4 6-3, Beibit Zhukayev 6-2 4-6 7-64 and Geoffrey Blancaneaux 1-6 6-1 6-2.
In the semifinal against Blancaneaux, The Moldovan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-1 6-2). During the match, Albot scored 84 points vs Blancaneaux’s 64. Albot was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Albot scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Radu Albot was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Albot broke Blancaneaux 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Albot has conceded 2 set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Albot has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (364-286). 18-10 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Albot has an overall 158-112 record in the last years on hard.
Albot’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Chicago Challenger and the Istanbul Challenger.
Radu has an aggregate 33-25 win-loss record in 2022, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Lukas Rosol
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 13-21 | 4-7 | 9-12 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-30 | 14-7 | 19-16 | 11-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-26 | 0-2 | 5-14 | 7-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-10 | 4-4 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 35-37 | 8-11 | 9-11 | 11-11 | 7-3 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 305, Rosol reached the final after defeating James Duckworth 6-2 7-61, Robin Haase 6-3 6-1, Laurent Lokoli 6-4 6-4 and Koray Kirci 6-3 6-4.
In the semifinal, Rosol had a good straight sets win against Kirci (6-3 6-4). During the match Rosol scored 67 points vs Kirci’s 46. Rosol was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Rosol recorded 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Lukas Rosol was extremely effective on serve to win 100% (24/24) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Lukas broke Kirci 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Czech hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Lukas’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh and M25 Muttenz.
The Czech has a composed 39-24 win-loss record in 2022, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Albot | Rosol |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 10 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 95 | 76 |
| Pts | 326-271 | 266-195 |
| Total Points | 597 | 461 |
| Winners | 130 | 111 |
| %Winners | 40% | 42% |
Both Albot and Rosol played 4 matches. At the moment, Radu Albot lost 2 sets while Lukas Rosol hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Albot has played 2 sets more than Rosol (10 vs 8). Therefore, Albot played 19 games more than Rosol. Albot scored 130 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Rosol fired 111 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Albot | Rosol |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 2.5 | 3.5 |
| 1st in | 177/267 | 133/226 |
| %1st in | 66% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 130/177 | 111/133 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 58/90 | 51/93 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 55% |
Albot struck 10 aces (2.5 per match). Rosol scored 14 aces (3.5 per match). Albot won 73% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Rosol won 83% 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 | Albot | Rosol |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 14 | 14 |
| Converted | 14/39 | 14/29 |
| % Converted | 36% | 48% |
| Conceded | 21 | 12 |
| Saved | 13 | 9 |
| % Saved | 62% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 8 | 3 |
Radu broke his opponents 14 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Moldovan dropped his serve 8 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponents 14 times with a 48% conversion rate. Rosol conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Albot | ||||||
| R1 Cristian |
R2 Squire |
1/4 Zhukayev |
1/2 Blancaneaux |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-4 | 6-4 6-3 | 6-2 4-6 7-64 | 1-6 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 19 | 31 | 22 | 95 | |
| pts | 76-66 | 72-58 | 94-83 | 84-64 | 326-271 | |
| Total points | 142 | 130 | 177 | 148 | 597 | |
| Winners | 31 | 32 | 39 | 28 | 130 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 44% | 41% | 33% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 45/67 | 41/58 | 54/81 | 37/61 | 177/267 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 71% | 67% | 61% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 31/45 | 32/41 | 39/54 | 28/37 | 130/177 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 78% | 72% | 76% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/22 | 6/17 | 20/27 | 16/24 | 58/90 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 35% | 74% | 67% | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/13 | 3/10 | 4/12 | 14/39 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 31% | 30% | 33% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 21 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 5/7 | 1/3 | 3/5 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 71% | 33% | 60% | 58% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Rosol | ||||||
| R1 Duckworth |
R2 Haase |
1/4 Lokoli |
1/2 Kirci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-61 | 6-3 6-1 | 6-4 6-4 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 16 | 20 | 19 | 76 | |
| pts | 76-58 | 51-27 | 72-64 | 67-46 | 266-195 | |
| Total points | 134 | 78 | 136 | 113 | 461 | |
| Winners | 32 | 23 | 32 | 24 | 111 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 45% | 44% | 36% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 44/67 | 27/41 | 38/73 | 24/45 | 133/226 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | 52% | 53% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 32/44 | 23/27 | 32/38 | 24/24 | 111/133 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 85% | 84% | 100% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 10/14 | 14/35 | 13/21 | 51/93 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 71% | 40% | 62% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/5 | 4/8 | 3/8 | 14/29 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 80% | 50% | 38% | 48% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 12 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 0/0 | 7/9 | 0/0 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 67% | – | 78% | – | 36% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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