Tomas Machac and Alexandre Muller will clash against each other in the qualifications of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 3:30 pm on GRANDSTAND 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.
Tomas Machac -> 1.45
Alexandre Muller -> 2.61
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Alexandre Muller
There is no head to head record between Tomas Machac and Alexandre Muller since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-19 | 15-9 | 2-5 | 3-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-24 | 22-11 | 9-5 | 5-6 | 1-2 | 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 |
Ranked no. 115, Machac got to the qualifications after defeating Vit Kopriva 7-62 7-67.
In the qualifications, Machac had a good straight sets win against Kopriva (7-62 7-67). During the match, Machac scored 93 points vs Kopriva’s 81. Machac was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Machac managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Tomas Machac lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Machac put 69% of his first serves in, winning 63% (37/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. Machac broke Kopriva 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Machac has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 67% of his matches (174-85). 5-4 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Machac has an overall40-16 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Tomas has an aggregate 6-5 win-loss record in 2023, 5-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexandre Muller
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26-29 | 12-12 | 11-10 | 3-4 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-32 | 11-14 | 20-12 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 173, Alexandre got to the qualifications after beating Zhizhen Zhang 4-6 7-65 6-0.
In the qualifications against Zhang, Alexandre recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-65 6-0). During the match Muller scored 96 points vs Zhang’s 85. Alexandre was pretty aggressive to blast 47 winners.
About the serving games, Muller recorded 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Alexandre Muller was pretty effective on serve to win 72% (47/65) of his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Alexandre broke Zhang 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Muller has a composed 9-6 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Machac | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 29 |
| Pts | 93-81 | 96-85 |
| Total Points | 174 | 181 |
| Winners | 37 | 47 |
| %Winners | 40% | 49% |
Both Machac and Muller played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Alexandre Muller lost 1 set while Tomas Machac hasn’t conceded a set so far. Machac has played 1 set(s) less than Muller (2 vs 3). Therefore, Machac played 3 games less than Muller. The Czech scored 37 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Alexandre bagged 47 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Machac | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 4 |
| 1st in | 59/86 | 65/95 |
| %1st in | 69% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 37/59 | 47/65 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 16/30 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 53% |
Machac fired 2 aces . Muller made 4 aces . Machac won 63% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Muller won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Machac | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 40% | 50% |
| Conceded | 11 | 8 |
| Saved | 7 | 6 |
| % Saved | 64% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 2 |
Machac broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Muller conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Machac | |||
| Q1 Kopriva | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 7-67 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 93-81 | 93-81 | |
| Total points | 174 | 174 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 59/86 | 59/86 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 37/59 | 37/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 64% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Muller | |||
| Q1 Zhang | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 7-65 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 96-85 | 96-85 | |
| Total points | 181 | 181 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 65/95 | 65/95 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 47/65 | 47/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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