Evan Furness and Steven Diez will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Szekesfehervar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Evan Furness who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Evan Furness is the pick to win this match.
Evan Furness -> 1.44
Steven Diez -> 2.64
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Prediction and head to head Evan Furness vs. Steven Diez
There is no head to head record between Evan Furness and Steven Diez since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Evan Furness
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-21 | 3-3 | 9-14 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-15 | 0-3 | 5-5 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-31 | 2-3 | 16-12 | 19-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-27 | 14-1 | 26-20 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 37-10 | 34-7 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 223, Evan got to the 2nd round after defeating Elliot Benchetrit 6-3 ret..
In the 1st round against Benchetrit, Furness had a free pass after Benchetrit retired on a 6-3 . scoreline.
Furness has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (258-171). 1-0 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Furness has a composed98-68 match record in the last 8 years on clay.
Evan has a composed 6-8 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Szekesfehervar Challenger
Evan has never competed in this tournament before.
Steven Diez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-17 | 10-8 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-36 | 7-13 | 16-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-32 | 13-12 | 22-19 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-28 | 3-6 | 12-16 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-16 | 2-5 | 8-8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 292, the Canadian got to the 2nd round after beating Joao Domingues 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round, Diez had a good straight sets win against Domingues (6-4 7-5). During the match Diez scored 84 points vs Domingues’s 71. Steven was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Diez made 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Steven Diez lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Diez put 63% of his first serves in, winning 74% (40/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (10/32) on the 2nd serve. Steven broke Domingues 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Diez’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Torello.
Diez has an overall 5-7 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Furness | Diez |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 9 | 22 |
| Pts | 36-28 | 84-71 |
| Total Points | 64 | 155 |
| Winners | 14 | 40 |
| %Winners | 39% | 48% |
Both Furness and Diez played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Furness and Diez have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Furness played 13 games less than Diez. Evan scored 14 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Diez fired 40 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Furness | Diez |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 17/36 | 54/86 |
| %1st in | 47% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 14/17 | 40/54 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 10/32 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 31% |
Furness recorded 1 ace . Diez also made 3 aces . Furness won 82% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Diez won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 31% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Furness | Diez |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 5 |
| Converted | 1/2 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 10 |
| Saved | 2 | 7 |
| % Saved | 100% | 70% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Furness broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. Furness pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 2 break points. Diez broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Steven conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.
| Furness | |||
| R1 Benchetrit |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |
| Tot Games | 9 | 9 | |
| pts | 36-28 | 36-28 | |
| Total points | 64 | 64 | |
| Winners | 14 | 14 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 17/36 | 17/36 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 47% | |
| 1st pts | 14/17 | 14/17 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 11/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 1/2 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Diez | |||
| R1 Domingues |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 84-71 | 84-71 | |
| Total points | 155 | 155 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 54/86 | 54/86 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 40/54 | 40/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/32 | 10/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 31% | 31% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 7/10 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 70% | 70% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWLWWLLWW Tennis Scores in Szekesfehervar Challenger
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Ivan GakhovGakhov (6-74 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Julian OcleppoOcleppo (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (6-4 6-73 6-4) – See score progression
- Evan FurnessFurness – Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit (6-3 ret.) – See score progression
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Benjamin HassanHassan (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Gerald MelzerMelzer (6-74 6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Mate ValkuszValkusz (4-6 6-3 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Titouan DroguetDroguet (4-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Steven DiezDiez – Joao DominguesDomingues (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-75 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (2-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
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