Leo Borg and Lukas Pokorny will face off in the qualifications of the Istanbul Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Leo Borg who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Leo Borg is the pick to win this match.
Leo Borg -> 1.5
Lukas Pokorny -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Leo Borg vs. Lukas Pokorny
This will be the 3rd time that Leo Borg and Lukas Pokorny play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Borg and Pokorny (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Borg won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in M15 Sharm ElSheikh back in 2022.
Leo Borg
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-7 | 2-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-30 | 22-13 | 10-8 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 13-8 | 27-20 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-12 | 0-0 | 1-9 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 343 (career-high), Borg reached the qualifications after defeating Cagan Efe Tufekci 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, Borg had a good straight sets win against Efe Tufekci (6-1 6-1). During the match, Borg scored 58 points vs Efe Tufekci’s 26. Borg was extremely aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Borg scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Leo Borg was quite effective on serve to win 84% (21/25) of his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Borg broke Efe Tufekci 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Borg has a winning win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 54% of his matches (71-60). 20-11 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Borg has a composed33-19 record in the last 3 years on hard.
Borg’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Jakarta and M25 Risskov/Aarhus.
Leo has an aggregate 30-19 win-loss record in 2023, 20-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Istanbul Challenger
Leo has never competed in this tournament before.
Lukas Pokorny
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-7 | 10-4 | 1-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-26 | 21-13 | 4-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 22-9 | 12-13 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-20 | 12-4 | 8-11 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 631, Lukas got to the qualifications after defeating S Mert Ozdemir 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Pokorny had a good straight sets win against Mert Ozdemir (6-4 6-2). During the match Pokorny scored 60 points vs Mert Ozdemir’s 47. Pokorny was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Pokorny bagged 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Lukas Pokorny was quite efficient on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Pokorny broke Mert Ozdemir 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
The Slovakian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M15 Monastir.
Pokorny has an aggregate 31-20 win-loss record in 2023, 20-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borg | Pokorny |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 18 |
| Pts | 58-26 | 60-47 |
| Total Points | 84 | 107 |
| Winners | 21 | 25 |
| %Winners | 36% | 42% |
Both Borg and Pokorny played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Borg and Pokorny have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Borg played 4 games less than Pokorny. The Swede scored 21 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Pokorny fired 25 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borg | Pokorny |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 8 |
| 1st in | 25/37 | 34/53 |
| %1st in | 68% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 25/34 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 10/19 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 53% |
Borg recorded 1 ace . Pokorny also scored 8 aces . Borg won 84% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Pokorny won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borg | Pokorny |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Swede broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Borg pretty solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Slovakian broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Lukas conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Borg | |||
| Q1 Efe |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 58-26 | 58-26 | |
| Total points | 84 | 84 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 25/37 | 25/37 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 21/25 | 21/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Pokorny | |||
| Q1 Mert |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 60-47 | 60-47 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/53 | 34/53 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 25/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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