Dennis Novak and Marek Gengel will fight against each other in the quarter of the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:30 am on COURT B. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dennis Novak who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dennis Novak is the pick to win this match.
Dennis Novak -> 1.31
Marek Gengel -> 3.3
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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Marek Gengel
This will be the 2nd time that Dennis Novak and Marek Gengel square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Novak (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Novak won 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 in the quarter in the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger back in January 2023.
Dennis Novak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-16 | 5-5 | 9-9 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 12-3 | 12-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 6-9 | 4-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-29 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-14 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 145, Dennis reached the quarter after defeating Henri Squire 6-3 7-67 and Valentin Royer 6-2 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Dennis had a good straight sets win against Royer (6-2 6-3). During the match, Novak scored 60 points vs Royer’s 37. Novak was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Novak scored 5 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults. Dennis Novak was very effective on serve to win 88% (22/25) of his 1st serve and 77% (10/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Novak broke Royer 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Austrian hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Novak has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (381-217). 7-0 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Novak has an overall 84-35 record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger where he defeated Tung-Lin Wu in the final 6-4 6-4.
Novak has an aggregate 7-0 win-loss record in 2023, 7-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger
Marek Gengel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-13 | 33-13 | 0-0 | 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. 264 (career-high), Gengel reached the quarter after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-1 6-2 and Michael Geerts 2-6 7-60 7-5.
In the 2nd round against Geerts, The Czech recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 7-60 7-5).During the match Gengel scored less points (3) than Geerts. In fact, the world no. 145 won 103 points vs Geerts’s. That means that Gengel was more focused during the important points. Marek was quite aggressive to blast 56 winners.
About the serving games, Gengel fired 17 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Marek Gengel lost the serve 5 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Gengel put 72% of his first serves in, winning 66% (56/85) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (13/33) on the 2nd serve. Marek broke Geerts 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Marek has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Gengel has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Novak | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 39 | 48 |
| Pts | 131-100 | 159-146 |
| Total Points | 231 | 305 |
| Winners | 56 | 83 |
| %Winners | 43% | 52% |
Both Novak and Gengel played 2 matches. At the moment, Marek Gengel conceded 1 set while Dennis Novak hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Novak has played 1 set(s) less than Gengel (4 vs 5). Therefore, Novak played 9 games less than Gengel. Novak scored 56 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Gengel recorded 83 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Novak | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 16 | 24 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 12 |
| 1st in | 64/106 | 124/168 |
| %1st in | 60% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 56/64 | 83/124 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 27/42 | 20/44 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 45% |
Novak managed to score 16 aces (8 per match). Gengel managed to score 24 aces (12 per match). Novak won 88% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Gengel won 67% of the points behind 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 | Novak | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 8 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 8/10 |
| % Converted | 45% | 80% |
| Conceded | 1 | 18 |
| Saved | 1 | 13 |
| % Saved | 100% | 72% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Novak broke his opponents 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Novak pretty solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Czech broke his opponents 8 times with a 80% conversion rate. Gengel conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 72% of the break points that he conceded.
| Novak | ||||
| R1 Squire |
R2 Royer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-67 | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 | 39 | |
| pts | 71-63 | 60-37 | 131-100 | |
| Total points | 134 | 97 | 231 | |
| Winners | 34 | 22 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 37% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 11 | 5 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/68 | 25/38 | 64/106 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 66% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 34/39 | 22/25 | 56/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/29 | 10/13 | 27/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 77% | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Converted | 1/3 | 4/8 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 50% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gengel | ||||
| R1 Moriya |
R2 Geerts |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | 2-6 7-60 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 33 | 48 | |
| pts | 56-40 | 103-106 | 159-146 | |
| Total points | 96 | 209 | 305 | |
| Winners | 27 | 56 | 83 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 54% | 52% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 17 | 24 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/50 | 85/118 | 124/168 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 72% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 27/39 | 56/85 | 83/124 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 66% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/11 | 13/33 | 20/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 39% | 45% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | 8/10 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 16 | 18 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 11/16 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 69% | 85% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
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