Fajing Sun and Inaki Montes-De La Torre will face off in the qualifications of the Pozoblanco Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 7:00 pm on PISTA 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Inaki Montes-De La Torre who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Inaki Montes-De La Torre is the pick to win this match.
Inaki Montes-De La Torre -> 1.69
Fajing Sun -> 2.08
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Prediction and head to head Fajing Sun vs. Inaki Montes-De La Torre
There is no head to head record between Fajing Sun and Inaki Montes-De La Torre since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Fajing Sun
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-13 | 14-9 | 7-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-27 | 25-22 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-22 | 32-18 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 526, Fajing got to the qualifications after beating Ji Sung Nam 7-65 6-1.
In the qualifications, Sun had a good straight sets win against Sung Nam (7-65 6-1). During the match, Sun scored 76 points vs Sung Nam’s 59. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Regarding the service games, Sun fired 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Fajing Sun conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Sun put 78% of his first serves in, winning 81% (42/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Sun broke Sung Nam twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Sun has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 55% of his matches (203-168). 17-11 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sun has an aggregate172-132 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Chinese’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Martos.
Sun has a compiled 19-15 win-loss record in 2023, 17-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pozoblanco Challenger
The Chinese has never competed in this tournament before.
Inaki Montes-De La Torre
11 - 2win/loss
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493
LWWLWWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 22-9 | 5-4 | 9-2 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-11 | 8-7 | 7-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-7 | 9-4 | 10-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 531, Montes-De La Torre reached the qualifications after beating Eliakim Coulibaly 7-66 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Coulibaly (7-66 6-4). During the match Montes-De La Torre scored 81 points vs Coulibaly’s 75. Montes-De La Torre was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Montes-De La Torre blasted 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Inaki Montes-De La Torre lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Montes-De La Torre put 68% of his first serves in, winning 67% (36/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Montes-De La Torre broke Coulibaly 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Montes-De La Torre’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Bergamo and M25 Getxo.
Montes-De La Torre has an aggregate 10-2 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pozoblanco Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Sun | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 23 |
| Pts | 76-59 | 81-75 |
| Total Points | 135 | 156 |
| Winners | 42 | 36 |
| %Winners | 55% | 44% |
Both Sun and Montes-De La Torre 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, Sun and Montes-De La Torre have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Sun played 3 games less than Montes-De La Torre. Fajing scored 42 winners (55% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard struck 36 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Sun | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 52/67 | 54/80 |
| %1st in | 78% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 42/52 | 36/54 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 7/15 | 12/26 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 46% |
Sun struck 3 aces . Montes-De La Torre blasted 3 aces . Sun won 81% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Montes-De La Torre won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Sun | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 67% | 44% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Sun broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Chinese pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 2 break points. Inaki broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Inaki conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Sun | |||
| Q1 Sung Nam |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 76-59 | 76-59 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 42 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 55% | 55% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 52/67 | 52/67 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 42/52 | 42/52 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/15 | 7/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Montes-De La Torre | |||
| Q1 Coulibaly |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 81-75 | 81-75 | |
| Total points | 156 | 156 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 54/80 | 54/80 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 36/54 | 36/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/26 | 12/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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