Jurij Rodionov and Roberto Marcora will play each other in the quarter of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTRAL TAG HEUER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jurij Rodionov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jurij Rodionov is the pick to win this match.
Jurij Rodionov -> 1.37
Roberto Marcora -> 2.99
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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Roberto Marcora
This will be the 3rd time that Jurij Rodionov and Roberto Marcora square off. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Rodionov won 6-2 6-2 in the quarter in the Glasgow Challenger back in 2019.
Jurij Rodionov
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 23-30 | 10-9 | 6-12 | 7-6 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 44-33 | 3-6 | 15-13 | 21-11 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
2022 | 45-31 | 5-5 | 16-11 | 21-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
2021 | 20-28 | 2-4 | 2-7 | 13-13 | 3-3 | 0-1 |
2020 | 25-16 | 5-1 | 7-6 | 12-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 140, Jurij got to the quarter after beating Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3 7-5 and Oleksii Krutykh 7-65 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Rodionov had a good straight sets win against Krutykh (7-65 6-2). During the match, Rodionov scored 75 points vs Krutykh’s 61. Rodionov was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Regarding the service games, Rodionov struck 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jurij Rodionov lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Rodionov put 63% of his first serves in, winning 85% (39/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 37% (10/27) on the 2nd serve. Jurij broke Krutykh 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Austrian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
Rodionov has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (193-142). 4-4 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Rodionov has an aggregate49-33 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Jurij’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Biel Challenger and the Mauthausen Challenger.
Jurij has a composed 36-25 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
The Austrian has never competed in this tournament before.
Roberto Marcora
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2023 | 3-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 4-7 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 14-35 | 3-7 | 7-14 | 3-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
2020 | 24-17 | 11-6 | 3-5 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2019 | 36-32 | 7-6 | 12-14 | 17-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 636, Marcora got to the quarter after beating Clement Tabur 6-3 6-4 and Fernando Verdasco 7-66 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Roberto had a good straight sets win against Verdasco (7-66 6-2). During the match Marcora scored 75 points vs Verdasco’s 65. The Italian was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Marcora fired 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Roberto Marcora lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Marcora put 69% of his first serves in, winning 65% (31/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (12/22) on the 2nd serve. Marcora broke Verdasco 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Italian has a composed 4-6 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Rodionov | Marcora |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
Tot Games | 42 | 40 |
Pts | 142-116 | 140-115 |
Total Points | 258 | 255 |
Winners | 63 | 58 |
%Winners | 44% | 41% |
Both Rodionov and Marcora played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rodionov and Marcora have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Rodionov played 2 games more than Marcora. The Austrian scored 63 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 58 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Rodionov | Marcora |
---|---|---|
Aces | 16 | 5 |
Avg per match | 8 | 2.5 |
1st in | 77/136 | 81/126 |
%1st in | 57% | 64% |
1st pts | 63/77 | 58/81 |
%1st pts | 82% | 72% |
2nd pts | 29/59 | 26/45 |
%2nd pts | 49% | 58% |
Rodionov bagged 16 aces (8 per match). Marcora struck 5 aces (2.5 per match). Rodionov won 82% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Marcora won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Rodionov | Marcora |
---|---|---|
Won | 6 | 7 |
Converted | 6/7 | 7/15 |
% Converted | 86% | 47% |
Conceded | 9 | 7 |
Saved | 7 | 4 |
% Saved | 78% | 57% |
Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
The Austrian broke his opponents 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Rodionov conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded. Roberto broke his opponents 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. Roberto conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
Rodionov | ||||
R1 Kukushkin |
R2 Krutykh |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 7-5 | 7-65 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | 42 | |
pts | 67-55 | 75-61 | 142-116 | |
Total points | 122 | 136 | 258 | |
Winners | 24 | 39 | 63 | |
%Winners | 36% | 52% | 44% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 9 | 7 | 16 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
1st in | 31/63 | 46/73 | 77/136 | |
% 1st in | 49% | 63% | 57% | |
1st pts | 24/31 | 39/46 | 63/77 | |
% 1st pts | 77% | 85% | 82% | |
2nd pts | 19/32 | 10/27 | 29/59 | |
% 2nd pts | 59% | 37% | 49% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Converted | 3/3 | 3/4 | 6/7 | |
Converted % | 100% | 75% | 86% | |
Conceded | 2 | 7 | 9 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 6/7 | 7 | |
Saved % | 50% | 86% | 68% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Marcora | ||||
R1 Tabur |
R2 Verdasco |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-4 | 7-66 6-2 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 21 | 40 | |
pts | 65-50 | 75-65 | 140-115 | |
Total points | 115 | 140 | 255 | |
Winners | 27 | 31 | 58 | |
%Winners | 42% | 41% | 41% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
1st in | 33/56 | 48/70 | 81/126 | |
% 1st in | 59% | 69% | 64% | |
1st pts | 27/33 | 31/48 | 58/81 | |
% 1st pts | 82% | 65% | 72% | |
2nd pts | 14/23 | 12/22 | 26/45 | |
% 2nd pts | 61% | 55% | 58% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
Converted | 3/10 | 4/5 | 7/15 | |
Converted % | 30% | 80% | 47% | |
Conceded | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
Saved | 1/2 | 3/5 | 4 | |
Saved % | 50% | 60% | 55% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Head 2 Head
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