Nick Hardt and Akira Santillan will square off in the 2nd round of the Prague 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nick Hardt who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nick Hardt is the pick to win this match.
Nick Hardt -> 1.59
Akira Santillan -> 2.25

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Prediction and head to head Nick Hardt vs. Akira Santillan

This will be the 2nd time that Nick Hardt and Akira Santillan face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Santillan (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they locked horns, Santillan won 6-1 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Traralgon Challenger back in 2019.

Nick Hardt

Nick Hardt

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Rank
552
High
177
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 31-21 1-3 30-18 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 41-25 6-6 34-18 0-0 1-1 0-0
2023 22-28 11-9 10-16 1-2 0-1 0-0
2022 51-25 18-6 28-16 5-3 0-0 0-0
2021 44-19 9-6 35-13 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 221, Nick reached the 2nd round after defeating Federico Gaio 6-2 6-4.

In the 1st round, Hardt had a good straight sets win against Gaio (6-2 6-4). During the match, Hardt scored 78 points vs Gaio’s 62. The Dominican was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Hardt scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Nick Hardt was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 71% (27/38) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Dominican broke Gaio 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Hardt has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 62% of his matches (169-105). 4-4 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Hardt has a compiled106-61 record in the last 7 years on clay.

Hardt has a composed 9-11 win-loss record in 2023, 4-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Prague 2 Challenger

Nick has never competed in this tournament before.

Prague 2 Challenger
Hardt's Record

Akira Santillan

Akira Santillan

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Rank
348
High
144
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 59-21 31-12 6-2 22-7 0-0 0-0
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
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Ranked no. 421, Akira got to the 2nd round after beating Marek Gengel 6-2 6-0, Timo Stodder 7-66 6-2 and Chun Hsin Tseng 6-3 6-0.

In the 1st round, Santillan had a good straight sets win against Hsin Tseng (6-3 6-0). During the match Santillan scored 54 points vs Hsin Tseng’s 27. Santillan was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

About the serving games, Santillan bagged 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Akira Santillan conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 78% of his first serves in, win 90% (28/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (4/9) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Hsin Tseng 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

The Australian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Portimao.

Akira has a compiled 13-13 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Prague 2 Challenger
Santillan's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

N.Hardt
A.Santillan
1h:36
1h:36
Time on court​
!
3h:18
3h:18
1h:36
1h:36
Last match​
!
0h:53
0h:53
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
18
18
Games Played​
50
50
2
2
Set played​​
6
6
78
78
Total points​
204
204
78
78
Avg point​
68
68
27
27
Winners
85
85
27
27
Avg Winners​
28.3
28.3
35%
35%
Ratio winners
42%
42%
-- Serve --
1
1
Aces
17
17
1
1
Avg Aces
5.7
5.7
2
2
Double Faults
6
6
2
2
Avg Double Faults
2
2
27/38
27/38
1st won total​
85/109
85/109
!
71%
71%
1st won %
!
78%
78%
17/26
17/26
2nd won total​
28/47
28/47
!
65%
65%
2nd won %
60%
60%
-- Break Points --
3/9
3/9
BP won
13/24
13/24
3/9
3/9
Avg BP won
4.3/8
4.3/8
33%
33%
Won
!
54%
54%
4
4
Conceded
7
7
4
4
Avg Conceded
2.3
2.3
0
0
Broken
2
2
!
0
0
Avg Broken
!
0.7
0.7
4
4
Saved
5
5
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Hardt Santillan
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 6
Tot Games 18 50
Pts 78-62 204-134
Total Points 140 338
Winners 27 85
%Winners 35% 42%

Hardt played 1 match while Santillan competed in 3 matches. Santillan started his run from the qualifications while Hardt had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Hardt has played 4 set(s) less than Santillan (2 vs 6). Therefore, Hardt played 32 games less than Santillan. The Dominican scored 27 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Akira made 85 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Hardt Santillan
Aces 1 17
Avg per match 1 5.7
1st in 38/64 109/156
%1st in 59% 70%
1st pts 27/38 85/109
%1st pts 71% 78%
2nd pts 17/26 28/47
%2nd pts 65% 60%

Hardt struck 1 ace . Santillan also bagged 17 aces (5.7 per match). Hardt won 71% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Santillan won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Hardt Santillan
Won 3 13
Converted 3/9 13/24
% Converted 33% 54%
Conceded 4 7
Saved 4 5
% Saved 100% 71%
Times Broken 0 2

Hardt broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Dominican pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Australian broke his opponents 13 times with a 54% conversion rate. The Australian conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

Hardt
R1
Gaio		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 78-62 78-62
Total points 140 140
Winners 27 27
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 38/64 38/64
% 1st in 59% 59%
1st pts 27/38 27/38
% 1st pts 71% 71%
2nd pts 17/26 17/26
% 2nd pts 65% 65%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/9 3/9
Converted % 33% 33%
Conceded 4 4
Saved 4/4 4
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Santillan
Q1
Gengel		 Q3
Stodder		 R1
Hsin		 Total
Score 6-2 6-0 7-66 6-2 6-3 6-0
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 14 21 15 50
pts 63-35 87-72 54-27 204-134
Total points 98 159 81 338
Winners 22 35 28 85
%Winners 35% 40% 52% 42%
SERVE
Aces 9 6 2 17
Double Faults 2 2 2 6
1st in 28/42 50/74 31/40 109/156
% 1st in 67% 68% 78% 70%
1st pts 22/28 35/50 28/31 85/109
% 1st pts 79% 70% 90% 78%
2nd pts 10/14 14/24 4/9 28/47
% 2nd pts 71% 58% 44% 60%
Breaks
Won 5 4 4 13
Converted 5/10 4/9 4/5 13/24
Converted % 50% 44% 80% 54%
Conceded 3 4 0 7
Saved 3/3 2/4 0/0 5
Saved % 100% 50% – 150%
Times Broken 0 2 0 2

Tennis Scores in Prague 2 Challenger

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