Rudolf Molleker and Akira Santillan will face off in the 1st round of the Hamburg Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rudolf Molleker who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rudolf Molleker is the pick to win this match.
Rudolf Molleker -> 1.57
Akira Santillan -> 2.29
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Prediction and head to head Rudolf Molleker vs. Akira Santillan
This will be the 2nd time that Rudolf Molleker and Akira Santillan fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Santillan (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they squared off, Santillan won 6-3 7-5 in the qualifications in the Bratislava 2 Challenger back in October 2023.
Rudolf Molleker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-34 | 4-8 | 15-18 | 7-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-7 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 219, Rudolf will start his run in the Hamburg Challenger after he played his last match in the Bratislava 2 Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Santillan in the qualifications on the 8th of October.
Molleker has a composed 49-30 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Prague 3 Challenger where he overcame Gabriel Debru in the final 6-2 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, The German has an overall 199-167 record. He has a negative 16-28 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Hamburg Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See his history.
Akira Santillan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-33 | 11-13 | 21-14 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-28 | 28-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 20-15 | 2-5 | 12-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-6 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 411, Akira reached the 1st round after defeating Louis Wessels 6-1 6-2 and Khumoun Sultanov 6-2 5-7 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Australian defeated Sultanov (6-2 5-7 6-4). During the match Santillan scored 102 points vs Sultanov’s 92. Santillan was extremely aggressive to blast 47 winners.
About the serving games, Santillan struck 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Akira Santillan lost the serve 4 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Santillan put 67% of his first serves in, winning 67% (47/70) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (16/35) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Sultanov 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Australian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Portimao.
Santillan has a compiled 35-30 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hamburg Challenger
Santillan has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Adam WaltonWalton – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DebruDebru – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jelle SelsSels – Kalin IvanovskiIvanovski (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dennis NovakDennis – Marko TopoMarko (7-6(2) 6-1) – See score progression
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