Sekou Bangoura and Inaki Montes-De La Torre will face off in the qualifications of the Knoxville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 3:00 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Inaki Montes-De La Torre who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Inaki Montes-De La Torre is the pick to win this match.
Inaki Montes-De La Torre -> 1.35
Sekou Bangoura -> 2.98
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Prediction and head to head Sekou Bangoura vs. Inaki Montes-De La Torre
There is no head to head record between Sekou Bangoura and Inaki Montes-De La Torre since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Sekou Bangoura
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 9-10 | 1-3 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-18 | 13-11 | 12-3 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-11 | 4-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 539, Sekou reached the qualifications after defeating Mikelis Libietis 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Sekou had a good straight sets win against Libietis (6-1 6-2). During the match, Bangoura scored 57 points vs Libietis’s 38. Bangoura was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bangoura bagged 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Sekou Bangoura was quite effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sekou broke Libietis 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Bangoura has good match record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (336-249). 5-3 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Bangoura has an aggregate 45-38 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Sekou’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Sunrise,M15 Vero Beach,M15 South Bend,M15 Fountain Valley and M15 Champaign.
Bangoura has an overall 30-17 win-loss record in 2022, 5-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Inaki Montes-De La Torre
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 22-9 | 5-4 | 9-2 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-11 | 8-7 | 7-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-7 | 9-4 | 10-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 562, Montes-De La Torre reached the qualifications after beating Martim Leote Prata 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Leote Prata (6-2 6-2). During the match Montes-De La Torre scored 56 points vs Leote Prata’s 33. The Spaniard was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Montes-De La Torre scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Inaki Montes-De La Torre lost the serve once. Furthermore, Montes-De La Torre put 67% of his first serves in, winning 85% (22/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (6/13) on the 2nd serve. Inaki broke Leote Prata 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Montes-De La Torre’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Mungia.
Inaki has an aggregate 18-9 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bangoura | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 16 |
| Pts | 57-38 | 56-33 |
| Total Points | 95 | 89 |
| Winners | 25 | 22 |
| %Winners | 44% | 39% |
Both Bangoura and Montes-De La Torre played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bangoura and Montes-De La Torre have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Bangoura played 1 game less than Montes-De La Torre. The American scored 25 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Montes-De La Torre struck 22 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bangoura | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 1 |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 26/39 |
| %1st in | 66% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 22/26 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 6/13 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 46% |
Bangoura fired 3 aces . Montes-De La Torre recorded 1 ace . Bangoura won 71% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Montes-De La Torre won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bangoura | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 80% | 71% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Sekou broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Bangoura pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points. Montes-De La Torre broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Bangoura | |||
| Q1 Libietis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-38 | 57-38 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 35/53 | 35/53 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Montes-De La Torre | |||
| Q1 Leote Prata |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 56-33 | 56-33 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/39 | 26/39 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 22/26 | 22/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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