Oriol Roca Batalla and Carlos Taberner will play each other in the final of the Augsburg Challenger for the 5^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Taberner who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Carlos Taberner is the pick to win this match.
Carlos Taberner -> 1.61
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 2.25

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Prediction and head to head Oriol Roca Batalla vs. Carlos Taberner

This will be the 5^th time that Oriol Roca Batalla and Carlos Taberner play each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Roca Batalla (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.

The last time that they played, Taberner won 6-4 2-6 6-2 in the 1^st round in the San Marino Challenger back in 2022.

Oriol Roca Batalla

Ranked no. 296, Oriol got to the final after beating Christoph Negritu 6-2 6-7⁶ 6-3, Steven Diez 6-1 6-4, Nino Serdarusic 6-4 6-4 and Nicolas Zanellato 6-3 6-4.

In the semifinal, Oriol had a good straight sets win against Zanellato (6-3 6-4). During the match, Roca Batalla scored 60 points vs Zanellato’s 49. Roca Batalla was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Roca Batalla managed to score 2 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Overall, Oriol Roca Batalla was very efficient on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Oriol broke Zanellato 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Spaniard has dropped 1 set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.

Roca Batalla has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of his matches (460-242). 21-24 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Roca Batalla has an overall 404-208 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Oriol’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Torello.

Roca Batalla has an aggregate 29-28 win-loss record in 2023, 21-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Augsburg Challenger

Carlos Taberner

Ranked no. 361, Taberner got to the final after beating Roman Andres Burruchaga 6-1 6-4, Oliver Crawford 3-6 6-4 7-6³, Gianmarco Ferrari 6-4 6-1 and Timo Stodder 6-3 6-3.

In the semifinal, Carlos had a good straight sets win against Stodder (6-3 6-3). During the match Taberner scored 66 points vs Stodder’s 49. Taberner was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.

About the serving games, Taberner couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 8 double faults. Carlos Taberner lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Taberner put 52% of his first serves in, winning 78% (21/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. Carlos broke Stodder 6 times after converting 35% of his break points (6/17).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Spaniard has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

The Spaniard’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Augsburg Challenger.

The Spaniard has a composed 16-14 win-loss record in 2023, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Roca Batalla	Taberner
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	9	9
Tot Games	86	84
Pts	301-221	309-250
Total Points	522	559
Winners	133	108
%Winners	44%	35%

Both Roca Batalla and Taberner played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Oriol Roca Batalla surrendered 1 set, while Carlos Taberner dropped 1 set. Talking about their workload, Roca Batalla and Taberner have played the same amount of sets 9. However, Roca Batalla played 2 games more than Taberner. Roca Batalla scored 133 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Carlos blasted 108 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Roca Batalla	Taberner
Aces	15	7
Avg per match	3.8	1.8
1st in	169/258	147/258
%1st in	66%	57%
1st pts	133/169	108/147
%1st pts	79%	73%
2nd pts	52/89	50/111
%2nd pts	58%	45%

Roca Batalla blasted 15 aces (3.8 per match). Taberner blasted 7 aces (1.8 per match). Roca Batalla won 79% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Taberner won 73% of the points on 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	Roca Batalla	Taberner
Won	14	22
Converted	14/26	22/53
% Converted	54%	42%
Conceded	11	31
Saved	7	20
% Saved	64%	65%
Times Broken	4	11

Roca Batalla broke his opponents 14 times with a 54% conversion rate. The Spaniard surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded. Taberner broke his opponents 22 times with a 42% conversion rate. Carlos conceded his serve 11 times and he saved 65% of the break points that he conceded.

Roca Batalla
	R1 Negritu	R2 Diez	1/4 Serdarusic	1/2 Zanellato	Total
Score	6-2 6-76 6-3	6-1 6-4	6-4 6-4	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	3	2	2	2	9
Tot Games	30	17	20	19	86
pts	100-72	66-41	75-59	60-49	301-221
Total points	172	107	134	109	522
Winners	42	27	34	30	133
%Winners	42%	41%	45%	50%	44%
SERVE
Aces	3	3	7	2	15
Double Faults	2	0	4	0	6
1st in	51/82	34/52	43/66	41/58	169/258
% 1st in	62%	65%	65%	71%	66%
1st pts	42/51	27/34	34/43	30/41	133/169
% 1st pts	82%	79%	79%	73%	79%
2nd pts	21/31	10/18	12/23	9/17	52/89
% 2nd pts	68%	56%	52%	53%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	4	3	3	14
Converted	4/6	4/8	3/6	3/6	14/26
Converted %	67%	50%	50%	50%	54%
Conceded	2	2	5	2	11
Saved	1/2	1/2	4/5	1/2	7
Saved %	50%	50%	80%	50%	58%
Times Broken	1	1	1	1	4

Taberner
	R1 Andres	R2 Crawford	1/4 Ferrari	1/2 Stodder	Total
Score	6-1 6-4	3-6 6-4 7-63	6-4 6-1	6-3 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	2	2	9
Tot Games	17	32	17	18	84
pts	61-42	115-109	67-50	66-49	309-250
Total points	103	224	117	115	559
Winners	20	43	24	21	108
%Winners	33%	37%	36%	32%	35%
SERVE
Aces	0	4	3	0	7
Double Faults	8	7	4	8	27
1st in	29/53	61/98	30/55	27/52	147/258
% 1st in	55%	62%	55%	52%	57%
1st pts	20/29	43/61	24/30	21/27	108/147
% 1st pts	69%	70%	80%	78%	73%
2nd pts	12/24	16/37	12/25	10/25	50/111
% 2nd pts	50%	43%	48%	40%	45%
Breaks
Won	6	5	5	6	22
Converted	6/9	5/14	5/13	6/17	22/53
Converted %	67%	36%	38%	35%	42%
Conceded	6	12	6	7	31
Saved	4/6	7/12	5/6	4/7	20
Saved %	67%	58%	83%	57%	66%
Times Broken	2	5	1	3	11

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