Sebastian Gima and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan will square off in the qualifications of the Iasi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Gima who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sebastian Gima is the pick to win this match.
Sebastian Gima -> 1.28
Mircea-Alexandru Jecan -> 3.42
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Gima vs. Mircea-Alexandru Jecan
There is no head to head record between Sebastian Gima and Mircea-Alexandru Jecan since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Sebastian Gima
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-33 | 3-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-35 | 15-8 | 41-25 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-30 | 25-11 | 23-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-24 | 1-3 | 28-20 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-9 | 7-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 472, Gima reached the qualifications after beating Dragos Nicolae Cazacu 6-3 7-63.
In the qualifications, Sebastian had a good straight sets win against Nicolae Cazacu (6-3 7-63). During the match, Gima scored 89 points vs Nicolae Cazacu’s 68. Sebastian was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Gima was unable to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Sebastian Gima was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. The Romanian broke Nicolae Cazacu 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Gima has a solid record in the last 6 years having won 60% of his matches (133-90). 29-14 on clay in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Gima has a composed88-62 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.
The Romanian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Heraklion and M25 Kursumlijska Banja.
Sebastian has an overall 37-19 win-loss record in 2023, 29-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Mircea-Alexandru Jecan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-13 | 0-1 | 12-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-20 | 1-1 | 24-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-23 | 0-1 | 20-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-16 | 1-5 | 6-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 900, the Romanian reached the qualifications after beating Marius Copil 4-6 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications against Copil, Jecan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-4 6-4). During the match Jecan scored 92 points vs Copil’s 85. The Romanian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Jecan was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mircea-Alexandru Jecan was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (38/49) of his 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Jecan broke Copil 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
The Romanian has an overall 7-6 win-loss record in 2023, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2020, 2021 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Gima | Jecan |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 30 |
| Pts | 89-68 | 92-85 |
| Total Points | 157 | 177 |
| Winners | 25 | 38 |
| %Winners | 28% | 41% |
Both Gima and Jecan played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mircea-Alexandru Jecan conceded 1 set while Sebastian Gima hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Gima has played 1 set(s) less than Jecan (2 vs 3). Therefore, Gima played 8 games less than Jecan. Gima scored 25 winners (28% of the total points). On the other side, Mircea-Alexandru bagged 38 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Gima | Jecan |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
| 1st in | 34/63 | 49/80 |
| %1st in | 54% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 38/49 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 19/31 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 61% |
Gima didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Jecan also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Gima won 74% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Jecan won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Gima | Jecan |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/12 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 42% | 38% |
| Conceded | 4 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 25% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Gima broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Gima surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 25% of the break points that he conceded. Mircea-Alexandru broke his opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. Mircea-Alexandru conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Gima | |||
| Q1 Nicolae |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 89-68 | 89-68 | |
| Total points | 157 | 157 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/63 | 34/63 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 1/4 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 25% | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Jecan | |||
| Q1 Copil |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 92-85 | 92-85 | |
| Total points | 177 | 177 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 49/80 | 49/80 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 38/49 | 38/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/31 | 19/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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