Alejandro Moro Canas and Akira Santillan will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Murcia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on PISTA 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alejandro Moro Canas who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alejandro Moro Canas is the pick to win this match.
Alejandro Moro Canas -> 1.28
Akira Santillan -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Alejandro Moro Canas vs. Akira Santillan
There is no head to head record between Alejandro Moro Canas and Akira Santillan since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Alejandro Moro Canas
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-17 | 6-3 | 13-8 | 2-4 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-31 | 17-11 | 17-15 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-18 | 20-8 | 20-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-16 | 30-8 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 295, Alejandro got to the qualifications after beating Bogdan Bobrov 6-4 7-5.
In the qualifications, Alejandro had a good straight sets win against Bobrov (6-4 7-5). During the match, Moro Canas scored 79 points vs Bobrov’s 65. Moro Canas was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Moro Canas wasn’t able to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Alejandro Moro Canas lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Moro Canas put 61% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 73% (19/26) on the 2nd serve. Alejandro broke Bobrov 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Moro Canas has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 63% of his matches (107-62). 1-1 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Moro Canas has an overall47-39 record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Spaniard has an overall 11-8 win-loss record in 2023, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Murcia Challenger
The Spaniard has never competed in this tournament before.
Akira Santillan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-33 | 11-13 | 21-14 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-28 | 28-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 20-15 | 2-5 | 12-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-6 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 448, Akira got to the qualifications after beating Billy Harris 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Akira had a good straight sets win against Harris (6-3 6-4). During the match Santillan scored 68 points vs Harris’s 58. Akira was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Santillan wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Akira Santillan was pretty effective on serve to win 71% (35/49) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Harris twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Santillan’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Portimao.
Akira has an overall 8-9 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Moro Canas | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 19 |
| Pts | 79-65 | 68-58 |
| Total Points | 144 | 126 |
| Winners | 27 | 35 |
| %Winners | 34% | 51% |
Both Moro Canas and Santillan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Moro Canas and Santillan have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Moro Canas played 3 games more than Santillan. Moro Canas scored 27 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian blasted 35 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Moro Canas | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 40/66 | 49/68 |
| %1st in | 61% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 35/49 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 19/26 | 11/19 |
| %2nd pts | 73% | 58% |
Moro Canas didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Santillan also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Moro Canas won 68% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 73% of the points. On the other side, Santillan won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Moro Canas | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 2/7 |
| % Converted | 43% | 29% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Moro Canas broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Alejandro conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Akira was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Moro Canas | |||
| Q1 Bobrov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 79-65 | 79-65 | |
| Total points | 144 | 144 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/66 | 40/66 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/26 | 19/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Santillan | |||
| Q1 Harris |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-58 | 68-58 | |
| Total points | 126 | 126 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/68 | 49/68 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 35/49 | 35/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 11/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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