Alexander Ritschard and Jakub Mensik will play each other in the 2nd round of the Zug Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jakub Mensik who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jakub Mensik is the pick to win this match.
Jakub Mensik -> 1.48
Alexander Ritschard -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Ritschard vs. Jakub Mensik
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Ritschard and Jakub Mensik play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mensik (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Mensik won 7-6(5) 7-5 in the 1st round in the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger back in January 2023.
Alexander Ritschard
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-14 | 7-3 | 16-6 | 5-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-13 | 11-5 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 173, Alexander got to the 2nd round after beating Tim Handel 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Handel (6-2 6-1). During the match, Ritschard scored 56 points vs Handel’s 32. The Swiss was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ritschard managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Alexander Ritschard was exceptionally effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Swiss broke Handel 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Ritschard has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (223-146). 13-10 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ritschard has a composed 113-62 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Swiss’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Lyon Challenger.
Ritschard has a compiled 18-20 win-loss record in 2023, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
Jakub Mensik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-12 | 17-7 | 2-2 | 1-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-23 | 10-6 | 17-11 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-16 | 18-4 | 17-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 200 (career-high), Mensik got to the 2nd round after defeating Santiago Rodriguez Taverna 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Mensik had a good straight sets win against Rodriguez Taverna (6-4 6-3). During the match Mensik scored 65 points vs Rodriguez Taverna’s 56. Jakub was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
About the serving games, Mensik recorded 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Jakub Mensik lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Mensik put 61% of his first serves in, winning 79% (27/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (10/22) on the 2nd serve. Jakub broke Rodriguez Taverna 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Prague 2 Challenger where he beat Dominik Koepfer in the final 6-4 6-3.
Jakub has an aggregate 27-15 win-loss record in 2023, 16-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
Mensik has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ritschard | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 19 |
| Pts | 56-32 | 65-56 |
| Total Points | 88 | 121 |
| Winners | 21 | 27 |
| %Winners | 38% | 42% |
Both Ritschard and Mensik played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ritschard and Mensik have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ritschard played 4 games less than Mensik. The Swiss scored 21 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Jakub scored 27 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ritschard | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 6 |
| 1st in | 26/47 | 34/56 |
| %1st in | 55% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 27/34 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 10/22 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 45% |
Ritschard fired 6 aces . Mensik struck 6 aces . Ritschard won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Mensik won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ritschard | Mensik |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 57% | 44% |
| Conceded | 1 | 4 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Alexander broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Swiss very solid his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. Mensik broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ritschard | |||
| R1 Handel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 56-32 | 56-32 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 26/47 | 26/47 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Mensik | |||
| R1 Rodriguez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 65-56 | 65-56 | |
| Total points | 121 | 121 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 34/56 | 34/56 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 27/34 | 27/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/22 | 10/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLLLLWWL Tennis Scores in Zug Challenger
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Jelle SelsSels (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Dominic StrickerStricker (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Dylan DietrichDietrich (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-1 6-72 6-3) – See score progression
- Harold MayotMayot – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Jakub MensikMensik – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Mika BrunoldBrunold (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Matheus Pucinelli De AlmeidaPucinelli De Almeida (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Tim HandelHandel (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Fabio FogniniFognini – Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Ergi KirkinKirkin (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras – Remy BertolaBertola (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Gianmarco FerrariFerrari (7-63 6-3) – See score progression
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Jelle SelsSels (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Dylan DietrichDietrich (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Matteo GiganteGigante – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (6-1 6-7(2) 6-3) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-3 5-7 7-6(6)) – See score progression
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Dominic StrickerStricker (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Joris De LooreDe Loore (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jurij RodionovRodionov – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Harold MayotMayot (1-0) – H2H and prediction
