John Millman and Marek Gengel will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is John Millman who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, John Millman is the pick to win this match.
John Millman -> 1.188
Marek Gengel -> 4.5
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Prediction and head to head John Millman vs. Marek Gengel
There is no head to head record between John Millman and Marek Gengel since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
John Millman
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 5-5 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 13-15 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-27 | 6-9 | 7-7 | 8-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-13 | 10-6 | 1-3 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 135, Millman reached the 2nd round after defeating Dalibor Svrcina 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Svrcina (6-3 6-4). During the match, Millman scored 68 points vs Svrcina’s 50. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about the service games, Millman wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. John Millman lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Millman put 65% of his first serves in, winning 49% (17/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the 2nd serve. John broke Svrcina 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Millman has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (281-207). 10-14 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Millman has an overall 163-109 record in the last years on hard.
Millman’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Delray Beach.
Millman has a compiled 17-25 win-loss record in 2022, 10-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Busan Challenger
Marek Gengel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-14 | 33-13 | 0-1 | 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. 384, Gengel got to the 2nd round after defeating Jiho Lee 6-3 6-2 and Hiroki Moriya 1-6 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round against Moriya, Marek recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-4 6-2). During the match Gengel scored 78 points vs Moriya’s 75. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Gengel made 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Marek Gengel lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Gengel put 58% of his first serves in, winning 71% (30/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Moriya 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
The Czech’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Czech has an aggregate 28-26 win-loss record in 2022, 19-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Millman | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 42 |
| Pts | 68-50 | 144-121 |
| Total Points | 118 | 265 |
| Winners | 17 | 57 |
| %Winners | 25% | 40% |
Millman played 1 match while Gengel competed in 2 matches. Gengel started his run from the qualifications while Millman had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Marek Gengel surrendered 1 set while John Millman hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Millman has played 3 set(s) less than Gengel (2 vs 5). Therefore, Millman played 23 games less than Gengel. Millman scored 17 winners (25% of the total points). On the other side, Marek struck 57 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Millman | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 4 |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 82/131 |
| %1st in | 65% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 17/35 | 57/82 |
| %1st pts | 49% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 22/49 |
| %2nd pts | 74% | 45% |
Millman didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gengel scored 8 aces (4 per match). Millman won 49% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Gengel won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Millman | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 10 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 10/13 |
| % Converted | 60% | 77% |
| Conceded | 6 | 12 |
| Saved | 2 | 6 |
| % Saved | 33% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 6 |
The Australian broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Millman lost his serve 4 times and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Gengel broke his opponents 10 times with a 77% conversion rate. Marek conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Millman | |||
| R1 Svrcina |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-50 | 68-50 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/54 | 35/54 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 17/35 | 17/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 49% | 49% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 2/6 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Gengel | |||||
| Q1 Lee |
Q3 Mochizuki |
R1 Moriya |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-2 2-6 6-0 | 1-6 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 | 25 | 64 | |
| pts | 66-46 | – | 78-75 | 144-121 | |
| Total points | 112 | 0 | 153 | 265 | |
| Winners | 27 | 30 | 57 | ||
| %Winners | 41% | 0% | 38% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||
| 1st in | 40/58 | / | 42/73 | 82/131 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 0% | 58% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | / | 30/42 | 57/82 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 0% | 71% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | / | 13/31 | 22/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 0% | 42% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||
| Converted | 5/6 | / | 5/7 | 10/13 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 0% | 71% | 77% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 7 | 12 | ||
| Saved | 3/5 | 0/ | 3/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 60% | – | 43% | 103% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||
Head 2 Head
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