Karl Friberg and Akira Santillan will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Karlsruhe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Akira Santillan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Akira Santillan is the pick to win this match.
Akira Santillan -> 1.42
Karl Friberg -> 2.71
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Prediction and head to head Karl Friberg vs. Akira Santillan
There is no head to head record between Karl Friberg and Akira Santillan since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Karl Friberg
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-5 | 3-1 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-34 | 11-4 | 17-16 | 22-13 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 52-27 | 10-5 | 26-16 | 16-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-21 | 3-5 | 13-14 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 359, the Swede reached the qualifications after beating Jakub Nicod 7-63 6-3.
In the qualifications, Karl had a good straight sets win against Nicod (7-63 6-3). During the match, Friberg scored 76 points vs Nicod’s 68. Karl was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Friberg made 3 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Karl Friberg lost the serve 3 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Friberg put 58% of his first serves in, winning 64% (27/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. Friberg broke Nicod 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Friberg has a winning match record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (198-148). 8-7 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Friberg has a compiled100-75 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
Karl’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Trnava and M15 Vaasa.
Friberg has an aggregate 31-19 win-loss record in 2023, 8-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Karlsruhe Challenger
Friberg 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. 398, Santillan got to the qualifications after defeating Neil Oberleitner 7-64 6-3.
In the qualifications, Akira had a good straight sets win against Oberleitner (7-64 6-3). During the match Santillan scored 79 points vs Oberleitner’s 62. Santillan was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Santillan bagged 5 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Akira Santillan lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Santillan put 59% of his first serves in, winning 70% (31/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Oberleitner 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Santillan’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Portimao.
Santillan has a compiled 22-19 win-loss record in 2023, 15-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Friberg | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 |
| Pts | 76-68 | 79-62 |
| Total Points | 144 | 141 |
| Winners | 27 | 31 |
| %Winners | 36% | 39% |
Both Friberg and Santillan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Friberg and Santillan have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (22). The Swede scored 27 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian managed to score 31 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Friberg | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 5 |
| 1st in | 42/72 | 44/74 |
| %1st in | 58% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 27/42 | 31/44 |
| %1st pts | 64% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 16/30 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 53% |
Friberg bagged 3 aces . Santillan scored 5 aces . Friberg won 64% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Santillan won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Friberg | Santillan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 56% | 67% |
| Conceded | 5 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 1 |
| % Saved | 40% | 25% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
Karl broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Karl surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded. Santillan broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Akira conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded.
| Friberg | |||
| Q1 Nicod |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-68 | 76-68 | |
| Total points | 144 | 144 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 42/72 | 42/72 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 27/42 | 27/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/30 | 17/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Santillan | |||
| Q1 Oberleitner |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 79-62 | 79-62 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 44/74 | 44/74 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 31/44 | 31/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/30 | 16/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/4 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 25% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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