Cezar Cretu and Juan Bautista Otegui will square off in the 1st round of the Iasi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm 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 Cezar Cretu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Cezar Cretu is the pick to win this match.
Cezar Cretu -> 1.53
Juan Bautista Otegui -> 2.38
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Prediction and head to head Cezar Cretu vs. Juan Bautista Otegui
There is no head to head record between Cezar Cretu and Juan Bautista Otegui since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Cezar Cretu
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| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-26 | 4-5 | 46-21 | 2-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-22 | 13-9 | 42-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 60-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-19 | 0-3 | 41-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 14-5 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 405, Cezar will start his run in the Iasi Challenger after he played his last match in M15 Cluj Napoca where he lost 6-1 6-3 to Perruzza in the 2nd round on the 21st of June.
The Romanian has an overall 31-13 win-loss record in 2023, 26-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Cezar’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya and M15 Bucharest.
Talking about his overall career, Cretu has an overall 168-75 record. He has a positive 149-63 record on clay.
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Juan Bautista Otegui
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-22 | 0-0 | 28-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-32 | 4-7 | 14-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 45-26 | 2-1 | 43-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 20-16 | 1-2 | 19-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-10 | 4-5 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 442, Juan reached the 1st round after beating Matei Cristian Onofrei 6-2 6-1 and Michael Vrbensky 6-72 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications against Vrbensky, Juan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-72 6-4 6-3). During the match Bautista scored 120 points vs Vrbensky’s 115. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Bautista fired 2 aces and he was not very consistent on his 2nd serve to score 12 double faults. Juan Bautista Otegui lost the serve 6 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Bautista put 50% of his first serves in, winning 68% (39/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (21/56) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Vrbensky 9 times after converting 43% of his break points (9/21).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Bautista started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Juan has a compiled 7-17 win-loss record in 2023, 7-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Bautista has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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