Radu Albot and Pedro Martinez Portero will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Brest Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CENTRAL. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Radu Albot who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Radu Albot is the pick to win this match.
Radu Albot -> 1.63
Pedro Martinez Portero -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Radu Albot vs. Pedro Martinez Portero
This will be the 2nd time that Radu Albot and Pedro Martinez Portero clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Martinez Portero (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Martinez Portero won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in Acapulco back in 2020.
Radu Albot
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-12 | 3-3 | 13-6 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-34 | 10-13 | 13-8 | 12-10 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-30 | 25-14 | 4-6 | 3-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-27 | 4-9 | 2-8 | 13-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-18 | 0-8 | 2-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 132, Albot reached the 2nd round after defeating Gabriel Diallo 6-74 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round against Diallo, Radu recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-2 6-3). During the match, Albot scored 101 points vs Diallo’s 88. Albot was exceptionally aggressive to blast 52 winners.
Regarding the service games, Albot made 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Radu Albot was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (52/70) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Albot was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Diallo 3 times.
Albot has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (356-294). 7-6 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Albot has an overall 68-57 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Moldovan’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in Delray Beach and the St. Tropez Challenger.
The Moldovan has an overall 34-30 win-loss record in 2023, 7-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Brest Challenger
Radu has never competed in this tournament before.
Pedro Martinez Portero
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-9 | 5-3 | 14-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 44-35 | 6-9 | 33-25 | 5-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-30 | 7-12 | 13-13 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-25 | 4-5 | 21-13 | 5-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 35-13 | 6-5 | 29-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 136, Pedro got to the 2nd round after beating Jaume Antoni Munar Clar 7-5 1-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Martinez Portero defeated Munar Clar (7-5 1-6 6-4). During the match Martinez Portero scored 98 points vs Munar Clar’s 95. Pedro was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Martinez Portero fired 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Pedro Martinez Portero lost the serve 5 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Martinez Portero put 66% of his first serves in, winning 63% (37/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the 2nd serve. Martinez Portero broke Munar Clar 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Martinez Portero’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Como Challenger.
Martinez Portero has a compiled 34-35 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Albot | Martinez Portero |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 29 |
| Pts | 101-88 | 98-95 |
| Total Points | 189 | 193 |
| Winners | 52 | 37 |
| %Winners | 51% | 38% |
Both Albot and Martinez Portero played 1 match. Both players lost a set in the event. Radu Albot surrendered 1 set, while Pedro Martinez Portero lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Albot and Martinez Portero have played the same amount of sets 3. However, Albot played 1 game more than Martinez Portero. Albot scored 52 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard managed to score 37 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Albot | Martinez Portero |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 70/101 | 59/89 |
| %1st in | 69% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 52/70 | 37/59 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 63% |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 18/30 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 60% |
Albot made 2 aces . Martinez Portero fired 2 aces . Albot won 74% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Martinez Portero won 63% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Albot | Martinez Portero |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 100% | 67% |
| Conceded | 4 | 9 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 44% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 |
Albot broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. The Moldovan pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 4 break points. Martinez Portero broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Martinez Portero conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 44% of the break points that he conceded.
| Albot | |||
| R1 Diallo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 101-88 | 101-88 | |
| Total points | 189 | 189 | |
| Winners | 52 | 52 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 70/101 | 70/101 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 52/70 | 52/70 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 16/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Martinez Portero | |||
| R1 Munar Clar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 1-6 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 29 | |
| pts | 98-95 | 98-95 | |
| Total points | 193 | 193 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 59/89 | 59/89 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 37/59 | 37/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/30 | 18/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 4/9 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 44% | 44% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
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