Timofey Skatov and Miljan Zekic will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Girona Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on PISTA 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Timofey Skatov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Timofey Skatov is the pick to win this match.
Timofey Skatov -> 1.40
Miljan Zekic -> 2.75

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Prediction and head to head Timofey Skatov vs. Miljan Zekic

This will be the 2^nd time that Timofey Skatov and Miljan Zekic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Skatov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Skatov won 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the final in M15 Antalya back in 2020.

Timofey Skatov

Ranked no. 155, the Kazakhstani got to the 2^nd round after defeating Laurent Lokoli 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Skatov had a good straight sets win against Lokoli (6-3 6-2). During the match, Skatov scored 60 points vs Lokoli’s 46. Timofey was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.

Talking about the service games, Skatov couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Timofey Skatov lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Skatov put 61% of his first serves in, winning 57% (17/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the 2nd serve. Timofey broke Lokoli 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).

Skatov has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (141-113). 6-3 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Skatov has a compiled123-88 match record in the last 7 years on clay.

Timofey’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Concepcion Challenger.

Skatov has a compiled 9-6 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Girona Challenger

The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.

Miljan Zekic

Ranked no. 214, Miljan got to the 2^nd round after beating Pablo Andujar 4-6 6-2 7-5.

In the 1^st round against Andujar, Zekic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 7-5). During the match Zekic scored 101 points vs Andujar’s 84. Zekic was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.

About the serving games, Zekic scored 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Miljan Zekic lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Zekic put 67% of his first serves in, winning 76% (42/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Zekic broke Andujar 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).

Zekic’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Pune Challenger.

The Serbian has an aggregate 4-7 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Skatov	Zekic
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	17	30
Pts	60-46	101-84
Total Points	106	185
Winners	17	42
%Winners	28%	42%

Both Skatov and Zekic played 1 match. At the moment, Miljan Zekic conceded 1 set while Timofey Skatov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Skatov has played 1 set(s) less than Zekic (2 vs 3). Therefore, Skatov played 13 games less than Zekic. Skatov scored 17 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Miljan struck 42 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Skatov	Zekic
Aces	0	3
Avg per match	0	3
1st in	30/49	55/82
%1st in	61%	67%
1st pts	17/30	42/55
%1st pts	57%	76%
2nd pts	11/19	12/27
%2nd pts	58%	44%

Skatov didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zekic struck 3 aces . Skatov won 57% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Zekic won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Skatov	Zekic
Won	6	5
Converted	6/12	5/14
% Converted	50%	36%
Conceded	4	7
Saved	2	4
% Saved	50%	57%
Times Broken	2	3

Timofey broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Serbian broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Miljan conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.

Skatov
	R1 Lokoli	Total
Score	6-3 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	60-46	60-46
Total points	106	106
Winners	17	17
%Winners	28%	28%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	30/49	30/49
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	17/30	17/30
% 1st pts	57%	57%
2nd pts	11/19	11/19
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/12	6/12
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Zekic
	R1 Andujar	Total
Score	4-6 6-2 7-5
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	30	30
pts	101-84	101-84
Total points	185	185
Winners	42	42
%Winners	42%	42%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	55/82	55/82
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	42/55	42/55
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	12/27	12/27
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/14	5/14
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	4/7	4
Saved %	57%	57%
Times Broken	3	3

Tennis Scores in Girona Challenger

• Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Jesper De JongDe Jong – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Laurent LokoliLokoli (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Gastao EliasElias – Titouan DroguetDroguet (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (6-2 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (3-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Alvaro Lopez San MartinLopez San Martin (7-6³ 2-6 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Mariano NavoneNavone – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (3-6 6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-3 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Pedro CachinCachin – Gilles Arnaud BaillyArnaud Bailly (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee (6-3 7-6²) – See score progression
• Joao SousaSousa – Andrea CollariniCollarini (3-6 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Miljan ZekicZekic – Pablo AndujarAndujar (4-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
• Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-5 4-6 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Joao SousaSousa – Mariano NavoneNavone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Miljan ZekicZekic – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Pedro CachinCachin – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Gastao EliasElias (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Ivan GakhovGakhov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jesper De JongDe Jong – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction