Tennys Sandgren and Matija Pecotic will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Delray Beach Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 10:00 am on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tennys Sandgren who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Tennys Sandgren is the pick to win this match.
Tennys Sandgren -> 1.24
Matija Pecotic -> 3.74
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Prediction and head to head Tennys Sandgren vs. Matija Pecotic
This will be the 3rd time that Tennys Sandgren and Matija Pecotic face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Sandgren and Pecotic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Sandgren won 6-7(5) 6-4 6-1 in the qualifications in the Aptos Challenger back in 2015.
Tennys Sandgren
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-9 | 4-4 | 5-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-25 | 20-19 | 0-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-23 | 19-11 | 1-5 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-24 | 5-12 | 1-7 | 2-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-13 | 7-5 | 5-3 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223, the American got to the qualifications after beating Mattia Bellucci 2-6 6-1 7-64.
In the qualifications against Bellucci, Sandgren recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 7-64). During the match, Sandgren scored 83 points vs Bellucci’s 77. Sandgren was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sandgren recorded 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Tennys Sandgren was extremely efficient on serve to win 76% (38/50) of his 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Tennys was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Bellucci 3 times.
Sandgren has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (269-210). 5-3 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sandgren has a compiled 154-112 match record in the last years on hard.
Sandgren’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger.
Tennys has an aggregate 8-4 win-loss record in 2023, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
Matija Pecotic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-9 | 2-4 | 3-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-11 | 12-5 | 4-4 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-12 | 0-0 | 8-9 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-4 | 14-2 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 784, Pecotic got to the qualifications after defeating Stefan Kozlov 7-61 5-5 ret..
In the qualifications against Kozlov, Matija had a free pass after Kozlov retired on a 7-61 5-5 . scoreline.
The Croatian has a compiled 3-1 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Delray Beach
Matija has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sandgren | Pecotic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 23 |
| Pts | 83-77 | 84-84 |
| Total Points | 160 | 168 |
| Winners | 38 | 35 |
| %Winners | 46% | 42% |
Both Sandgren and Pecotic played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Tennys Sandgren surrendered 1 set while Matija Pecotic hasn’t lost a set so far. Talking about their workload, Sandgren and Pecotic have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Sandgren played 5 games more than Pecotic. The American scored 38 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Matija struck 35 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sandgren | Pecotic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 2 |
| 1st in | 50/84 | 63/90 |
| %1st in | 60% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 38/50 | 35/63 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 56% |
| 2nd pts | 18/34 | 12/27 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 44% |
Sandgren scored 9 aces . Pecotic recorded 2 aces . Sandgren won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Pecotic won 56% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sandgren | Pecotic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 100% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 13 |
| Saved | 3 | 8 |
| % Saved | 50% | 62% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 5 |
Sandgren broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Sandgren conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Matija broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Pecotic conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sandgren | |||
| Q1 Bellucci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 2-6 6-1 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 83-77 | 83-77 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 50/84 | 50/84 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 38/50 | 38/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/34 | 18/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Pecotic | |||
| Q1 Kozlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-61 5-5 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 84-84 | 84-84 | |
| Total points | 168 | 168 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 63/90 | 63/90 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 35/63 | 35/63 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 56% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 12/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
| Saved | 8/13 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 62% | 62% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
Head 2 Head
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