Michael Geerts and Oriol Roca Batalla will face off in the 2nd round of the Maspalomas Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on EĂ“ HOTELS COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Oriol Roca Batalla who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Oriol Roca Batalla is the pick to win this match.
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 1.75
Michael Geerts -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Oriol Roca Batalla
There is no head to head record between Michael Geerts and Oriol Roca Batalla since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Michael Geerts
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 12-11 | 3-3 | 2-1 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 263, the Belgian got to the 2nd round after beating Dalibor Svrcina 7-64 6-3.
In the 1st round, Geerts had a good straight sets win against Svrcina (7-64 6-3). During the match, Geerts scored 78 points vs Svrcina’s 70. The Belgian was pretty aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Regarding the service games, Geerts scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 3 double faults. Michael Geerts lost the serve 5 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Geerts put 53% of his first serves in, winning 48% (15/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Michael broke Svrcina 7 times after converting 50% of his break points (7/14).
Geerts has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 59% of his matches (278-194). 24-13 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Geerts has an aggregate100-74 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Belgian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
The Belgian has an overall 42-36 win-loss record in 2022, 24-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Maspalomas Challenger
The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.
Oriol Roca Batalla
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 5-9 | 5-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 50-38 | 8-4 | 42-34 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 50-26 | 0-0 | 50-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 25-21 | 0-1 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 11-10 | 0-1 | 11-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 299, Oriol got to the 2nd round after defeating Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Sanchez-Izquierdo (6-2 6-4). During the match Roca Batalla scored 66 points vs Sanchez-Izquierdo’s 53. Roca Batalla was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Roca Batalla managed to score 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Oriol Roca Batalla lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Roca Batalla put 64% of his first serves in, winning 69% (29/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Roca Batalla broke Sanchez-Izquierdo 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Cairo,M25 Porec,M15 Valldoreix and M25 Girona.
Oriol has an overall 49-25 win-loss record in 2022, 49-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Geerts | Roca Batalla |
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Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 22 | 18 |
Pts | 78-70 | 66-53 |
Total Points | 148 | 119 |
Winners | 15 | 29 |
%Winners | 19% | 44% |
Both Geerts and Roca Batalla played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Geerts and Roca Batalla have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Geerts played 4 games more than Roca Batalla. Geerts scored 15 winners (19% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard scored 29 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Geerts | Roca Batalla |
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Aces | 1 | 4 |
Avg per match | 1 | 4 |
1st in | 31/59 | 42/66 |
%1st in | 53% | 64% |
1st pts | 15/31 | 29/42 |
%1st pts | 48% | 69% |
2nd pts | 14/28 | 12/24 |
%2nd pts | 50% | 50% |
Geerts made 1 ace . Roca Batalla also struck 4 aces . Geerts won 48% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Roca Batalla won 69% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Geerts | Roca Batalla |
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Won | 7 | 4 |
Converted | 7/14 | 4/6 |
% Converted | 50% | 67% |
Conceded | 7 | 7 |
Saved | 2 | 6 |
% Saved | 29% | 86% |
Times Broken | 5 | 1 |
Geerts broke his opponent 7 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Belgian lost his serve 5 times and he saved 29% of the break points that he conceded. Oriol broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
Geerts | |||
R1 Svrcina |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-64 6-3 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
pts | 78-70 | 78-70 | |
Total points | 148 | 148 | |
Winners | 15 | 15 | |
%Winners | 19% | 19% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 1 | 1 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
1st in | 31/59 | 31/59 | |
% 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
1st pts | 15/31 | 15/31 | |
% 1st pts | 48% | 48% | |
2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
% 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 7 | 7 | |
Converted | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 2/7 | 2 | |
Saved % | 29% | 29% | |
Times Broken | 5 | 5 |
Roca Batalla | |||
R1 Sanchez-Izquierdo |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
pts | 66-53 | 66-53 | |
Total points | 119 | 119 | |
Winners | 29 | 29 | |
%Winners | 44% | 44% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 4 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 42/66 | 42/66 | |
% 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
1st pts | 29/42 | 29/42 | |
% 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
2nd pts | 12/24 | 12/24 | |
% 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 4 | 4 | |
Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Head 2 Head
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