Mark Lajal and Justin Boulais will play each other in the 2nd round of the Granby Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.25
Justin Boulais -> 3.65
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Justin Boulais
There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Justin Boulais since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-11 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 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. 232 (career-high), the Estonian reached the 2nd round after defeating Juncheng Shang 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Shang (6-2 6-2). During the match, Lajal scored 59 points vs Shang’s 40. The Estonian was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Lajal recorded 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mark Lajal lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Lajal put 65% of his first serves in, winning 82% (27/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (6/18) on the 2nd serve. Lajal broke Shang 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Lajal has a solid win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 65% of his matches (83-45). 18-7 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Lajal has an aggregate58-23 match record in the last 3 years on hard.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Little Rock Challenger where he defeated Beibit Zhukayev in the final 6-4 7-5.
Mark has an overall 32-14 win-loss record in 2023, 18-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Lajal has never competed in this tournament before.
Justin Boulais
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 12-12 | 7-9 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 19-9 | 12-3 | 0-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 5-15 | 2-5 | 1-6 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 564, Justin got to the 2nd round after defeating Blaise Bicknell 6-0 4-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Boulais defeated Bicknell (6-0 4-6 6-4). During the match Boulais scored 94 points vs Bicknell’s 76. Justin was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Boulais scored 3 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Justin Boulais lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Boulais put 68% of his first serves in, winning 76% (39/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Justin broke Bicknell 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Justin has a composed 4-3 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Lajal | Boulais |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 26 |
| Pts | 59-40 | 94-76 |
| Total Points | 99 | 170 |
| Winners | 27 | 39 |
| %Winners | 46% | 41% |
Both Lajal and Boulais played 1 match. At the moment, Justin Boulais surrendered 1 set while Mark Lajal hasn’t lost a set so far. Lajal has played 1 set(s) less than Boulais (2 vs 3). Therefore, Lajal played 10 games less than Boulais. Lajal scored 27 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Canadian struck 39 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Lajal | Boulais |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 51/75 |
| %1st in | 65% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 39/51 |
| %1st pts | 82% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 6/18 | 11/24 |
| %2nd pts | 33% | 46% |
Lajal fired 4 aces . Boulais bagged 3 aces . Lajal won 82% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 33% of the points. On the other side, Boulais won 76% of the points behind 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 | Lajal | Boulais |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 71% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 6 |
| Saved | 2 | 4 |
| % Saved | 67% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Estonian broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Mark conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Boulais broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Justin conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Lajal | |||
| R1 Shang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-40 | 59-40 | |
| Total points | 99 | 99 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 27/33 | 27/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/18 | 6/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 33% | 33% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Boulais | |||
| R1 Bicknell |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 4-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 94-76 | 94-76 | |
| Total points | 170 | 170 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 51/75 | 51/75 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 39/51 | 39/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/24 | 11/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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