Sebastian Ofner and Otto Virtanen will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Ofner who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sebastian Ofner is the pick to win this match.
Sebastian Ofner -> 1.62
Otto Virtanen -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Ofner vs. Otto Virtanen
This will be the 2nd time that Sebastian Ofner and Otto Virtanen play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Virtanen (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played, Virtanen won 5-2 ret. in the 2nd round in the Quimper Challenger back in January 2023.
Sebastian Ofner
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-21 | 6-7 | 7-10 | 1-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 60-31 | 12-10 | 37-13 | 7-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-18 | 4-4 | 21-12 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-24 | 4-6 | 4-8 | 7-6 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-17 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 81 (career-high), the Austrian got to the 2nd round after beating Laurent Lokoli 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Sebastian had a good straight sets win against Lokoli (6-3 6-2). During the match, Ofner scored 54 points vs Lokoli’s 37. Sebastian was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ofner struck 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Sebastian Ofner was extremely effective on serve to win 91% (20/22) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ofner broke Lokoli 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Ofner has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 58% of his matches (276-198). 1-0 on grass in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Ofner has an overall19-12 win-loss record in the last 8 years on grass.
Ofner’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Tenerife 1 Challenger,the Antalya Challenger,the Zadar Challenger and the Prague 1 Challenger.
The Austrian has a compiled 39-16 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-16 | 3-7 | 3-5 | 16-1 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 131, the Finn got to the 2nd round after beating Norbert Gombos 7-62 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Finn had a good straight sets win against Gombos (7-62 7-5). During the match Virtanen scored 85 points vs Gombos’s 71. Virtanen was exceptionally aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Virtanen bagged 12 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Otto Virtanen was extremely efficient on serve to win 79% (34/43) of his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Otto broke Gombos twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).
His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Lugano Challenger where he beat Cem Ilkel in the final 6-4 7-6(5) and the Lille Challenger where he defeated Max Purcell in the final 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2.
Virtanen has an overall 19-17 win-loss record in 2023, 1-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
The Finn has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ofner | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 25 |
| Pts | 54-37 | 85-71 |
| Total Points | 91 | 156 |
| Winners | 20 | 34 |
| %Winners | 37% | 40% |
Both Ofner and Virtanen played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ofner and Virtanen have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ofner played 8 games less than Virtanen. The Austrian scored 20 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Otto fired 34 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ofner | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 12 |
| 1st in | 22/46 | 43/73 |
| %1st in | 48% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 20/22 | 34/43 |
| %1st pts | 91% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 16/24 | 18/30 |
| %2nd pts | 67% | 60% |
Ofner scored 6 aces . Virtanen made 12 aces . Ofner won 91% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Virtanen won 79% 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 | Ofner | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 2 |
| Converted | 3/7 | 2/10 |
| % Converted | 43% | 20% |
| Conceded | 0 | 7 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Sebastian broke his opponent 3 times with a 43% conversion rate. Sebastian extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Finn broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Otto conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ofner | |||
| R1 Lokoli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 54-37 | 54-37 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 22/46 | 22/46 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 20/22 | 20/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/24 | 16/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 3/7 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Virtanen | |||
| R1 Gombos |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 85-71 | 85-71 | |
| Total points | 156 | 156 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 12 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 43/73 | 43/73 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 34/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/30 | 18/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/10 | 2/10 | |
| Converted % | 20% | 20% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWLLWLL Tennis Scores in Ilkley Challenger
- Alex BoltBolt – Toby SamuelSamuel (2-6 7-66 7-5) – See score progression
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Laurent LokoliLokoli (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-79 6-3 7-67) – See score progression
- Charles BroomBroom – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Norbert GombosGombos (7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Johannus MondayMonday (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Jurij RodionovRodionov (7-61 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Emilio GomezGomez – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Alexander RitschardRitschard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Denis KudlaKudla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Harry WendelkenWendelken (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Sebastian OfnerOfner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
