Oleksii Krutykh and Jesper De Jong will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Girona Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 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 Jesper De Jong who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jesper De Jong is the pick to win this match.
Jesper De Jong -> 1.52
Oleksii Krutykh -> 2.41

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Prediction and head to head Oleksii Krutykh vs. Jesper De Jong

There is no head to head record between Oleksii Krutykh and Jesper De Jong since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Oleksii Krutykh

Ranked no. 167, Oleksii got to the 2^nd round after beating Pol Martin Tiffon 6-2 3-1 ret..

In the 1^st round against Martin Tiffon, Krutykh had a free pass after Martin Tiffon retired on a 6-2 3-1 . scoreline.

Krutykh has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 62% of his matches (175-108). 1-0 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Krutykh has a compiled121-66 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.

Krutykh has an overall 10-7 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Girona Challenger

Oleksii has never competed in this tournament before.

Jesper De Jong

Ranked no. 273, the Dutch got to the 2^nd round after defeating Carlos Sanchez Jover 6-2 6-3, Daniel Rincon 6-3 6-2 and Riccardo Bonadio 6-2 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Jesper had a good straight sets win against Bonadio (6-2 6-1). During the match De scored 60 points vs Bonadio’s 37. The Dutch was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, De made 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jesper De Jong was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (31/42) of his 1st serve and 56% (9/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Dutch broke Bonadio 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

De’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Tigre 2 Challenger and M25 Quinta Do Lago.

Jesper has a compiled 19-6 win-loss record in 2023, 9-4 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Krutykh	De
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	3	6
Tot Games	12	49
Pts	46-31	196-134
Total Points	77	330
Winners	25	82
%Winners	54%	42%

Krutykh played 1 match while De competed in 3 matches. De started his run from the qualifications while Krutykh had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Krutykh has played 3 set(s) less than De (3 vs 6). Therefore, Krutykh played 37 games less than De. Oleksii scored 25 winners (54% of the total points). On the other side, De bagged 82 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Krutykh	De
Aces	2	7
Avg per match	2	2.3
1st in	30/38	113/180
%1st in	79%	63%
1st pts	25/30	82/113
%1st pts	83%	73%
2nd pts	2/8	36/67
%2nd pts	25%	54%

Krutykh made 2 aces . De struck 7 aces (2.3 per match). Krutykh won 83% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 25% of the points. On the other side, De won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Krutykh	De
Won	3	13
Converted	3/5	13/25
% Converted	60%	52%
Conceded	0	15
Saved	0	12
% Saved	0%	80%
Times Broken	0	3

Oleksii broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Krutykh was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Dutch broke his opponents 13 times with a 52% conversion rate. De conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.

Krutykh
	R1 Martin	Total
Score	6-2 3-1 ret.
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	12	12
pts	46-31	46-31
Total points	77	77
Winners	25	25
%Winners	54%	54%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	30/38	30/38
% 1st in	79%	79%
1st pts	25/30	25/30
% 1st pts	83%	83%
2nd pts	2/8	2/8
% 2nd pts	25%	25%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/5	3/5
Converted %	60%	60%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

De
	Q1 Sanchez Jover	Q3 Rincon	R1 Bonadio	Total
Score	6-2 6-3	6-3 6-2	6-2 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	17	17	15	49
pts	75-54	61-43	60-37	196-134
Total points	129	104	97	330
Winners	24	27	31	82
%Winners	32%	44%	52%	42%
SERVE
Aces	4	0	3	7
Double Faults	2	0	3	5
1st in	37/65	34/57	42/58	113/180
% 1st in	57%	60%	72%	63%
1st pts	24/37	27/34	31/42	82/113
% 1st pts	65%	79%	74%	73%
2nd pts	16/28	11/23	9/16	36/67
% 2nd pts	57%	48%	56%	54%
Breaks
Won	5	4	4	13
Converted	5/11	4/8	4/6	13/25
Converted %	45%	50%	67%	52%
Conceded	6	2	7	15
Saved	4/6	1/2	7/7	12
Saved %	67%	50%	100%	217%
Times Broken	2	1	0	3

Tennis Scores in Girona Challenger

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• Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz (6-2 7-6⁷) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mariano NavoneNavone – Joao SousaSousa (6-2 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Miljan ZekicZekic (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

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