Dennis Novak and Arthur Cazaux will play each other in the semifinal of the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 10:30 am on COURT B. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dennis Novak who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dennis Novak is the pick to win this match.
Dennis Novak -> 1.59
Arthur Cazaux -> 2.29
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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Arthur Cazaux
This will be the 2nd time that Dennis Novak and Arthur Cazaux fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Novak (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Novak won 6-1 6-3 in the qualifications in Marseille back in 2020.
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 semifinal after beating Henri Squire 6-3 7-67, Valentin Royer 6-2 6-3 and Marek Gengel 6-3 6-3.
In the quarter, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Gengel (6-3 6-3). During the match, Novak scored 67 points vs Gengel’s 53. Dennis was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Novak fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Dennis Novak was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Novak broke Gengel 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Austrian hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Novak has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (382-217). 8-0 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Novak has an aggregate 85-35 match record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger where he defeated Tung-Lin Wu in the final 6-4 6-4.
Novak has an overall 8-0 win-loss record in 2023, 8-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger
Arthur Cazaux
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-11 | 12-5 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 54-29 | 31-13 | 11-9 | 3-4 | 9-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-14 | 14-3 | 4-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-19 | 16-4 | 22-11 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 9-3 | 3-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
Ranked no. 382, Cazaux reached the semifinal after defeating Keegan Smith 6-3 6-2, Omni Kumar 4-6 6-1 6-3, Giovanni Fonio 6-4 6-4, Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-75 7-64 6-3 and Tennys Sandgren 6-3 6-3.
In the quarter, Arthur had a good straight sets win against Sandgren (6-3 6-3). During the match Cazaux scored 55 points vs Sandgren’s 37. Arthur was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Cazaux fired 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Arthur Cazaux was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 92% (24/26) of his 1st serve and 65% (13/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Sandgren 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Cazaux has an overall 5-0 win-loss record in 2023, 5-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Nonthaburi 2 Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Novak | Cazaux |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 5 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 12 |
| Tot Games | 57 | 116 |
| Pts | 198-153 | 403-315 |
| Total Points | 351 | 718 |
| Winners | 80 | 183 |
| %Winners | 40% | 45% |
Novak played 3 matches while Cazaux competed in 5 matches. Cazaux started his run from the qualifications while Novak had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Arthur Cazaux lost 2 sets while Dennis Novak hasn’t dropped a set so far. Novak has played 6 set(s) less than Cazaux (6 vs 12). Therefore, Novak played 59 games less than Cazaux. Dennis scored 80 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Cazaux bagged 183 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Novak | Cazaux |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 20 | 39 |
| Avg per match | 6.7 | 7.8 |
| 1st in | 97/163 | 226/355 |
| %1st in | 60% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 80/97 | 183/226 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 41/66 | 72/129 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 56% |
Novak fired 20 aces (6.7 per match). Cazaux recorded 39 aces (7.8 per match). Novak won 82% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Cazaux won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Novak | Cazaux |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 15 |
| Converted | 9/19 | 15/33 |
| % Converted | 47% | 45% |
| Conceded | 3 | 20 |
| Saved | 2 | 17 |
| % Saved | 67% | 85% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
The Austrian broke his opponents 9 times with a 47% conversion rate. Dennis surrendered his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Arthur broke his opponents 15 times with a 45% conversion rate. The French player conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 85% of the break points that he conceded.
| Novak | |||||
| R1 Squire |
R2 Royer |
1/4 Gengel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-67 | 6-2 6-3 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 17 | 18 | 57 | |
| pts | 71-63 | 60-37 | 67-53 | 198-153 | |
| Total points | 134 | 97 | 120 | 351 | |
| Winners | 34 | 22 | 24 | 80 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 37% | 36% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 11 | 5 | 4 | 20 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 39/68 | 25/38 | 33/57 | 97/163 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 66% | 58% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 34/39 | 22/25 | 24/33 | 80/97 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 88% | 73% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/29 | 10/13 | 14/24 | 41/66 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 77% | 58% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 1/3 | 4/8 | 4/8 | 9/19 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 50% | 50% | 47% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Cazaux | |||||||
| Q1 Smith |
Q3 Kumar |
R1 Fonio |
R2 Gunneswaran |
1/4 Sandgren |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 4-6 6-1 6-3 | 6-4 6-4 | 6-75 7-64 6-3 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 26 | 20 | 35 | 18 | 116 | |
| pts | 65-46 | 93-73 | 69-56 | 121-103 | 55-37 | 403-315 | |
| Total points | 111 | 166 | 125 | 224 | 92 | 718 | |
| Winners | 27 | 40 | 34 | 58 | 24 | 183 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 43% | 49% | 48% | 44% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||||
| Aces | 1 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 39 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 33/54 | 53/85 | 40/55 | 74/115 | 26/46 | 226/355 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 62% | 73% | 64% | 57% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 40/53 | 34/40 | 58/74 | 24/26 | 183/226 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 75% | 85% | 78% | 92% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 18/32 | 8/15 | 21/41 | 13/20 | 72/129 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 56% | 53% | 51% | 65% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 4/8 | 2/7 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 15/33 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 50% | 29% | 60% | 60% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 20 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 6/7 | 0/0 | 6/8 | 2/2 | 17 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 86% | – | 75% | 100% | 120% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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WLLLLLLLWL Tennis Scores in Nonthaburi 2 Challenger
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Dennis NovakNovak – Marek GengelGengel (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Dennis NovakNovak – Marek GengelGengel (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Arthur CazauxCazaux – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jason JungJung – Lloyd HarrisHarris (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
