Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo and Javier Barranco Cosano will square off in the qualifications of the Madrid Challenger for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on PISTA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Javier Barranco Cosano who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Javier Barranco Cosano is the pick to win this match.
Javier Barranco Cosano -> 1.5
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo -> 2.46

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Prediction and head to head Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo vs. Javier Barranco Cosano

This will be the 4^th time that Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo and Javier Barranco Cosano play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Barranco (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.

The last time that they played, Sanchez-Izquierdo won 6-4 4-6 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Maia 2 Challenger back in 2021.

Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo

Ranked no. 336, the Spaniard reached the qualifications after defeating Rafael Jodar 6-1 6-0.

In the qualifications, Nikolas had a good straight sets win against Jodar (6-1 6-0). During the match, Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 56 points vs Jodar’s 23. Sanchez-Izquierdo was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Talking about the service games, Sanchez-Izquierdo was unable to score even 1 ace during the encounter and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Sanchez-Izquierdo put 74% of his first serves in, winning 64% (18/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (7/10) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Jodar 7 times after converting 64% of his break points (7/11).

Sanchez-Izquierdo has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 59% of his matches (221-153). 3-4 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Sanchez-Izquierdo has a compiled204-130 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.

Sanchez-Izquierdo has an overall 7-11 win-loss record in 2023, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Madrid Challenger

Sanchez-Izquierdo has never competed in this tournament before.

Javier Barranco Cosano

Ranked no. 349, the Spaniard reached the qualifications after beating Federico Gaio 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Gaio (6-4 6-3). During the match Barranco scored 67 points vs Gaio’s 56. Javier was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.

About the serving games, Barranco scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Javier Barranco Cosano lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Barranco put 46% of his first serves in, winning 79% (22/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (15/33) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Gaio 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Barranco has an aggregate 3-2 win-loss record in 2023, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Madrid Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2022. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Sanchez-Izquierdo	Barranco
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	19
Pts	56-23	67-56
Total Points	79	123
Winners	18	22
%Winners	32%	33%

Both Sanchez-Izquierdo and Barranco played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sanchez-Izquierdo and Barranco have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sanchez-Izquierdo played 6 games less than Barranco. Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 18 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Javier struck 22 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Sanchez-Izquierdo	Barranco
Aces	0	1
Avg per match	0	1
1st in	28/38	28/61
%1st in	74%	46%
1st pts	18/28	22/28
%1st pts	64%	79%
2nd pts	7/10	15/33
%2nd pts	70%	45%

Sanchez-Izquierdo didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Barranco scored 1 ace . Sanchez-Izquierdo won 64% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Barranco won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Sanchez-Izquierdo	Barranco
Won	7	5
Converted	7/11	5/10
% Converted	64%	50%
Conceded	4	6
Saved	3	4
% Saved	75%	67%
Times Broken	1	2

Nikolas broke his opponent 7 times with a 64% conversion rate. The Spaniard lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Spaniard broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Javier conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Sanchez-Izquierdo
	Q1 Jodar	Total
Score	6-1 6-0
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	13
pts	56-23	56-23
Total points	79	79
Winners	18	18
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	28/38	28/38
% 1st in	74%	74%
1st pts	18/28	18/28
% 1st pts	64%	64%
2nd pts	7/10	7/10
% 2nd pts	70%	70%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/11	7/11
Converted %	64%	64%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	3/4	3
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	1	1

Barranco
	Q1 Gaio	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	67-56	67-56
Total points	123	123
Winners	22	22
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	28/61	28/61
% 1st in	46%	46%
1st pts	22/28	22/28
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	15/33	15/33
% 2nd pts	45%	45%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/10	5/10
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

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