Mark Lajal and Omar Jasika will play each other in the 1st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.
Mark Lajal -> 1.7
Omar Jasika -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Omar Jasika
This will be the 2nd time that Mark Lajal and Omar Jasika play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Jasika (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Jasika won 7-6(4) 7-6(4) in the quarter in M15 Heraklion back in 2022.
Mark Lajal
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 15-16 | 8-7 | 0-3 | 2-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 244, the Estonian will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger where he lost 6-7(3) 6-4 6-4 to Celikbilek in the 1st round on the 5th of July.
Mark has a composed 29-13 win-loss record in 2023, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Little Rock Challenger where he overcame Beibit Zhukayev in the final 6-4 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Mark has an overall 80-44 record. He has a positive 55-22 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
The Estonian has never competed in this tournament before.
Omar Jasika
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 19-18 | 17-9 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 0-0 |
2023 | 37-26 | 34-20 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 70-23 | 63-20 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 286, Omar got to the 1st round after beating Quinn Vandecasteele 7-5 6-1 and Colin Sinclair 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Omar had a good straight sets win against Sinclair (6-4 6-4). During the match Jasika scored 68 points vs Sinclair’s 57. Omar was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Jasika struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Omar Jasika was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (28/37) of his 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Jasika broke Sinclair 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Jasika started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 56% of the points he played.
Jasika’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Jakarta.
Jasika has a compiled 23-13 win-loss record in 2023, 20-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Chicago Challenger
- Adam WaltonWalton – Eliot SpizzirriSpizzirri (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Emilio GomezGomez (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jason JungJung – Bernard TomicTomic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Skander MansouriMansouri – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Kei NishikoriNishikori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dane SweenySweeny – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction