Sumit Nagal and Dominik Palan will play each other in the 2nd round of the Pune Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sumit Nagal who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sumit Nagal is the pick to win this match.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.3
Dominik Palan -> 3.3
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Prediction and head to head Sumit Nagal vs. Dominik Palan
There is no head to head record between Sumit Nagal and Dominik Palan since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Sumit Nagal
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 31-23 | 15-12 | 16-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-29 | 9-8 | 32-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 17-18 | 0-1 | 16-17 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 23-26 | 1-4 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 8-14 | 2-4 | 5-5 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 387, Sumit got to the 2nd round after defeating Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-63 4-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Nagal defeated Uchiyama (7-63 4-6 6-4).During the match, Nagal scored less points (6) than Uchiyama. In fact, the world no. 387 won 98 points vs Uchiyama’s. That means that Nagal was more focused during the important points. The Indian was pretty aggressive to blast 56 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nagal struck 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Sumit Nagal lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Nagal put 75% of his first serves in, winning 69% (56/81) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. Nagal broke Uchiyama twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Nagal has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (264-175). 7-4 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Nagal has an overall 82-58 match record in the last years on hard.
Sumit’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Chennai Challenger.
The Indian has an aggregate 8-6 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pune Challenger
Dominik Palan
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 18-25 | 18-23 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 34-29 | 34-28 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 39-26 | 38-24 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 26-22 | 15-9 | 9-8 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 8-12 | 8-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 412, the Czech reached the 2nd round after beating Petr Nouza 6-3 6-4, Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 6-4 6-1 and Dalibor Svrcina 6-4 7-64.
In the 1st round, Palan had a good straight sets win against Svrcina (6-4 7-64). During the match Palan scored 88 points vs Svrcina’s 73. Dominik was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Palan blasted 3 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Dominik Palan lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Palan put 68% of his first serves in, winning 69% (38/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Palan broke Svrcina 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Dominik has a compiled 5-5 win-loss record in 2023, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Nagal | Palan |
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Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
Tot Games | 33 | 59 |
Pts | 98-104 | 218-170 |
Total Points | 202 | 388 |
Winners | 56 | 93 |
%Winners | 57% | 43% |
Nagal played 1 match while Palan competed in 3 matches. Palan started his run from the qualifications while Nagal had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Sumit Nagal dropped 1 set while Dominik Palan hasn’t dropped a set so far. Nagal has played 3 set(s) less than Palan (3 vs 6). Therefore, Nagal played 26 games less than Palan. Nagal scored 56 winners (57% of the total points). On the other side, Palan fired 93 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Nagal | Palan |
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Aces | 9 | 12 |
Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
1st in | 81/108 | 121/189 |
%1st in | 75% | 64% |
1st pts | 56/81 | 93/121 |
%1st pts | 69% | 77% |
2nd pts | 14/27 | 36/68 |
%2nd pts | 52% | 53% |
Nagal recorded 9 aces . Palan recorded 12 aces (4 per match). Nagal won 69% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Palan won 77% of the points on 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 | Nagal | Palan |
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Won | 2 | 9 |
Converted | 2/5 | 9/15 |
% Converted | 40% | 60% |
Conceded | 8 | 9 |
Saved | 6 | 7 |
% Saved | 75% | 78% |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Indian broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The Indian lost his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponents 9 times with a 60% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
Nagal | |||
R1 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
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Score | 7-63 4-6 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 33 | 33 | |
pts | 98-104 | 98-104 | |
Total points | 202 | 202 | |
Winners | 56 | 56 | |
%Winners | 57% | 57% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 9 | 9 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 81/108 | 81/108 | |
% 1st in | 75% | 75% | |
1st pts | 56/81 | 56/81 | |
% 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
2nd pts | 14/27 | 14/27 | |
% 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 2 | 2 | |
Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Palan | |||||
Q1 Nouza |
Q3 Kaliyanda |
R1 Svrcina |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-4 6-1 | 6-4 7-64 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 17 | 23 | 59 | |
pts | 66-48 | 64-49 | 88-73 | 218-170 | |
Total points | 114 | 113 | 161 | 388 | |
Winners | 30 | 25 | 38 | 93 | |
%Winners | 45% | 39% | 43% | 43% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 7 | 2 | 3 | 12 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | |
1st in | 33/57 | 33/51 | 55/81 | 121/189 | |
% 1st in | 58% | 65% | 68% | 64% | |
1st pts | 30/33 | 25/33 | 38/55 | 93/121 | |
% 1st pts | 91% | 76% | 69% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 13/24 | 10/18 | 13/26 | 36/68 | |
% 2nd pts | 54% | 56% | 50% | 53% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | |
Converted | 2/3 | 4/8 | 3/4 | 9/15 | |
Converted % | 67% | 50% | 75% | 60% | |
Conceded | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | |
Saved | 2/2 | 3/3 | 2/4 | 7 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | 50% | 250% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Pune Challenger
- Luca NardiNardi – Benjamin LockLock (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-75 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-71 7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Harold MayotMayot – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Yunseong ChungChung (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Akira SantillanSantillan (4-6 7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (3-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Arjun KadheKadhe (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Sumit NagalNagal – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-63 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Dominik PalanPalan – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Dane SweenySweeny – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Makoto OchiOchi (5-7 7-61 6-2) – See score progression
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Marek GengelGengel (4-6 6-2 7-61) – See score progression
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (6-7(5) 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Yunseong ChungChung (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Harold MayotMayot – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (3-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Dane SweenySweeny – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Harold MayotMayot (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (1-0) – H2H and prediction