Tomas Machac and Jan-Lennard Struff will fight against each other in the quarter of the Manama Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jan-Lennard Struff who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jan-Lennard Struff is the pick to win this match.
Jan-Lennard Struff -> 1.83
Tomas Machac -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Jan-Lennard Struff
There is no head to head record between Tomas Machac and Jan-Lennard Struff since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-11 | 12-6 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-10 | 16-11 | 18-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-19 | 24-6 | 5-2 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 28-19 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 12-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 |
| 2020 | 27-12 | 0-0 | 12-6 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 115, Machac reached the quarter after defeating Alessandro Giannessi 6-2 2-6 6-2 and Colin Sinclair 6-0 6-2.
In the 2nd round, Tomas had a good straight sets win against Sinclair (6-0 6-2). During the match, Machac scored 54 points vs Sinclair’s 29. Machac was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Machac scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he was exceptionally solid in conceding no double faults. Tomas Machac was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Sinclair 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Machac has lost 1 set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Machac has a solid match record in the last 7 years having won 67% of his matches (173-84). 4-3 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Machac has an overall39-15 record in the last 7 years on hard.
Tomas has an overall 5-4 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Jan-Lennard Struff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-13 | 4-6 | 11-4 | 2-2 | 5-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-24 | 21-9 | 14-7 | 5-6 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-22 | 3-10 | 7-4 | 12-4 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-30 | 8-11 | 11-8 | 6-8 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-15 | 10-6 | 1-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 156, Struff reached the quarter after defeating Andrey Chepelev 6-2 6-2 and Christopher O Connell 6-1 7-61.
In the 2nd round, Jan-Lennard had a good straight sets win against O Connell (6-1 7-61). During the match Struff scored 81 points vs O Connell’s 62. Struff was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Struff fired 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Jan-Lennard Struff conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Struff put 57% of his first serves in, winning 86% (38/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (15/33) on the 2nd serve. The German broke O Connell twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The German hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Jan-Lennard’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger.
The German has an aggregate 8-3 win-loss record in 2023, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Machac | Struff |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 36 |
| Pts | 144-105 | 150-108 |
| Total Points | 249 | 258 |
| Winners | 54 | 65 |
| %Winners | 38% | 43% |
Both Machac and Struff played 2 matches. At the moment, Tomas Machac dropped 1 set while Jan-Lennard Struff hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Machac has played 1 set more than Struff (5 vs 4). Therefore, Machac played 2 games more than Struff. Machac scored 54 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Struff struck 65 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Machac | Struff |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 22 |
| Avg per match | 3.5 | 11 |
| 1st in | 73/123 | 76/127 |
| %1st in | 59% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 54/73 | 65/76 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 26/50 | 24/51 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 47% |
Machac bagged 7 aces (3.5 per match). Struff fired 22 aces (11 per match). Machac won 74% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Struff won 86% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Machac | Struff |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 6 |
| Converted | 10/17 | 6/18 |
| % Converted | 59% | 33% |
| Conceded | 14 | 3 |
| Saved | 11 | 3 |
| % Saved | 79% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The Czech broke his opponents 10 times with a 59% conversion rate. Machac lost his serve 3 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded. Jan-Lennard broke his opponents 6 times with a 33% conversion rate. Jan-Lennard was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Machac | ||||
| R1 Giannessi |
R2 Sinclair |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 2-6 6-2 | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 14 | 38 | |
| pts | 90-76 | 54-29 | 144-105 | |
| Total points | 166 | 83 | 249 | |
| Winners | 35 | 19 | 54 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 35% | 38% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/78 | 24/45 | 73/123 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 53% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 35/49 | 19/24 | 54/73 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 79% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/29 | 13/21 | 26/50 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 62% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/7 | 10/17 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 71% | 59% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 6 | 14 | |
| Saved | 5/8 | 6/6 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 63% | 100% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Struff | ||||
| R1 Chepelev |
R2 O |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | 6-1 7-61 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 20 | 36 | |
| pts | 69-46 | 81-62 | 150-108 | |
| Total points | 115 | 143 | 258 | |
| Winners | 27 | 38 | 65 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 47% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 12 | 10 | 22 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 32/50 | 44/77 | 76/127 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 57% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 27/32 | 38/44 | 65/76 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | 15/33 | 24/51 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 45% | 47% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 2/7 | 6/18 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 29% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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