Jurij Rodionov and Dragos Nicolae Madaras will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Zug Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jurij Rodionov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jurij Rodionov is the pick to win this match.
Jurij Rodionov -> 1.5
Dragos Nicolae Madaras -> 2.46

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Prediction and head to head Jurij Rodionov vs. Dragos Nicolae Madaras

There is no head to head record between Jurij Rodionov and Dragos Nicolae Madaras since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Jurij Rodionov

Ranked no. 117, the Austrian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Hamad Medjedovic 6-3 7-5.

In the 1^st round, Jurij had a good straight sets win against Medjedovic (6-3 7-5). During the match, Rodionov scored 65 points vs Medjedovic’s 56. Rodionov was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about the service games, Rodionov managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jurij Rodionov was very effective on serve to win 82% (28/34) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rodionov broke Medjedovic 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Rodionov has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 58% of his matches (235-168). 12-9 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Rodionov has an aggregate84-64 record in the last 8 years on clay.

His best result of the year was conquering the title the Biel Challenger where he beat Liam Broady in the final 6-3 ret..

The Austrian has a compiled 33-20 win-loss record in 2023, 12-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Zug Challenger

Rodionov has never competed in this tournament before.

Dragos Nicolae Madaras

Ranked no. 193, Dragos got to the 2^nd round after defeating Remy Bertola 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Nicolae had a good straight sets win against Bertola (6-2 6-3). During the match Nicolae scored 63 points vs Bertola’s 42. Nicolae was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Nicolae struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Dragos Nicolae Madaras was pretty effective on serve to win 73% (24/33) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Dragos broke Bertola 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).

The Romanian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Cairo,M25 Antalya,M25 Varnamo,M15 Nyiregyhaza and M25 Brasov.

The Romanian has an aggregate 73-13 win-loss record in 2023, 72-12 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Rodionov	Nicolae
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	17
Pts	65-56	63-42
Total Points	121	105
Winners	28	24
%Winners	43%	38%

Both Rodionov and Nicolae played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Rodionov and Nicolae have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Rodionov played 4 games more than Nicolae. Rodionov scored 28 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian made 24 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Rodionov	Nicolae
Aces	5	3
Avg per match	5	3
1st in	34/60	33/56
%1st in	57%	59%
1st pts	28/34	24/33
%1st pts	82%	73%
2nd pts	15/26	12/23
%2nd pts	58%	52%

Rodionov scored 5 aces . Nicolae made 3 aces . Rodionov won 82% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Nicolae won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Rodionov	Nicolae
Won	3	5
Converted	3/4	5/9
% Converted	75%	56%
Conceded	0	5
Saved	0	3
% Saved	0%	60%
Times Broken	0	2

Rodionov broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. The Austrian pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Romanian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Nicolae conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.

Rodionov
	R1 Medjedovic	Total
Score	6-3 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	21	21
pts	65-56	65-56
Total points	121	121
Winners	28	28
%Winners	43%	43%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	34/60	34/60
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	28/34	28/34
% 1st pts	82%	82%
2nd pts	15/26	15/26
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/4	3/4
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

Nicolae
	R1 Bertola	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	63-42	63-42
Total points	105	105
Winners	24	24
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	33/56	33/56
% 1st in	59%	59%
1st pts	24/33	24/33
% 1st pts	73%	73%
2nd pts	12/23	12/23
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	5	5
Saved	3/5	3
Saved %	60%	60%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Zug Challenger

• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Ergi KirkinKirkin (7-6³ 6-4) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Mika BrunoldBrunold (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Zizou BergsBergs – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Jakub MensikMensik – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Gianmarco FerrariFerrari (7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Matheus Pucinelli De AlmeidaPucinelli De Almeida (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Harold MayotMayot – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Remy BertolaBertola (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Tim HandelHandel (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Gianmarco FerrariFerrari (7-6(3) 6-3) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Mika BrunoldBrunold (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Harold MayotMayot – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Jurij RodionovRodionov – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Remy BertolaBertola (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Ergi KirkinKirkin (7-6(3) 6-4) – See score progression
• Alexander RitschardRitschard – Tim HandelHandel (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Jakub MensikMensik – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Fabio FogniniFognini – Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

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