Raul Brancaccio and Alex Marti Pujolras will square off in the 1st round of the Girona Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on PISTA 4. 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 Raul Brancaccio who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Raul Brancaccio is the pick to win this match.
Raul Brancaccio -> 1.333
Alex Marti Pujolras -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Raul Brancaccio vs. Alex Marti Pujolras
This will be the 2nd time that Raul Brancaccio and Alex Marti Pujolras clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Brancaccio (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Brancaccio won 6-1 6-1 in the qualifications in the San Benedetto Challenger back in 2022.
Raul Brancaccio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-15 | 6-5 | 6-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-32 | 14-7 | 11-19 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-26 | 7-6 | 31-18 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-26 | 2-1 | 43-21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-12 | 1-1 | 3-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 136, Brancaccio will start his run in the Girona Challenger after he played his last match in the Lugano Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-3 to Brunold in the 2nd round on the 8th of March.
Brancaccio has an aggregate 12-7 win-loss record in 2023, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Noumea Challenger where he defeated Laurent Lokoli in the final 4-6 7-5 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Raul has an overall 279-188 record. He has a positive 215-135 record on clay.
Previously in the Girona Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Marti Pujolras
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-14 | 0-0 | 25-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-32 | 0-0 | 43-32 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-25 | 0-1 | 44-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 51-28 | 0-1 | 51-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 23-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 376, Marti reached the 1st round after beating Shintaro Mochizuki 6-0 6-3 and Oriol Roca Batalla 6-4 7-63.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Roca Batalla (6-4 7-63). During the match Marti scored 91 points vs Roca Batalla’s 79. Marti was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Marti scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 7 double faults. Alex Marti Pujolras lost the serve 3 times and he saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Marti put 57% of his first serves in, winning 64% (30/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (18/36) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Roca Batalla 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Spaniard started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
Alex’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Antalya.
Marti has a compiled 19-6 win-loss record in 2023, 19-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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