Elmar Ejupovic and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo will face off in the 1st round of the Blois Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo is the pick to win this match.
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo -> 1.571
Elmar Ejupovic -> 2.29
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Prediction and head to head Elmar Ejupovic vs. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
This will be the 2nd time that Elmar Ejupovic and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Sanchez-Izquierdo (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Sanchez-Izquierdo won 6-1 6-4 in the qualifications in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 1 Challenger back in 2022.
Elmar Ejupovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-13 | 1-2 | 4-4 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 30-34 | 4-7 | 16-17 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
| 2022 | 46-28 | 4-2 | 32-19 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 7-2 |
| 2021 | 34-25 | 1-2 | 23-17 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2020 | 18-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 10-3 |
Ranked no. 281, Ejupovic will start his run in the Blois Challenger after he won the title in M15 Sarajevo after beating 6-3 6-3 Mikrut in the final.
The German has an aggregate 26-20 win-loss record in 2023, 14-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The German’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Sarajevo.
Ejupovic won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Ejupovic has an overall 343-240 record. He has a positive 166-125 record on clay.
Previously in the Blois Challenger
The German has never competed in this tournament before.
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-22 | 2-2 | 17-19 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-31 | 4-5 | 41-23 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 5-0 | 26-25 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-32 | 0-2 | 39-28 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 33-16 | 1-1 | 32-13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 297, the Spaniard reached the 1st round after beating Jakub Paul 7-65 3-6 6-1 and Conner Huertas Del Pino 7-65 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard defeated Paul (7-65 3-6 6-1). During the match Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 103 points vs Paul’s 94. Sanchez-Izquierdo was pretty aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Sanchez-Izquierdo struck 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo lost the serve 5 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Sanchez-Izquierdo put 67% of his first serves in, winning 58% (35/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the 2nd serve. The Spaniard broke Paul 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
The Spaniard’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Valldoreix and M25 Mataro.
Sanchez-Izquierdo has an overall 23-16 win-loss record in 2023, 19-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Blois Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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