Mark Lajal and Francesco Maestrelli will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Helsinki Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on CENTER 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 Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.44
Francesco Maestrelli -> 2.64
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Francesco Maestrelli
This will be the 2nd time that Mark Lajal and Francesco Maestrelli clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Maestrelli (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played, Maestrelli won 6-2 6-2 in the semifinal in M15 Heraklion back in 2021.
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 199 (career-high), the Estonian will start his run in the Helsinki Challenger after he played his last match in the Bergamo Challenger where he lost 6-7(4) 6-3 6-4 to Goffin in the semifinal on the 4th of November.
Lajal has an aggregate 45-28 win-loss record in 2023, 15-10 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Little Rock Challenger where he defeated Beibit Zhukayev in the final 6-4 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, The Estonian has an overall 96-59 record. He has a positive 24-17 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Francesco Maestrelli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-35 | 11-7 | 21-23 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-38 | 9-10 | 16-24 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-24 | 5-4 | 34-12 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-18 | 8-3 | 18-12 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-5 | 3-3 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 219, the Italian got to the 1st round after beating Petr Nouza 7-610 6-4 and Ivan Liutarevich 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Francesco had a good straight sets win against Liutarevich (6-4 6-3). During the match Maestrelli scored 63 points vs Liutarevich’s 51. The Italian was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Maestrelli recorded 4 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Francesco Maestrelli was exceptionally effective on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maestrelli broke Liutarevich 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 53% of the points he played.
Francesco’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Montechiarugolo Challenger.
Francesco has a compiled 27-37 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Helsinki Challenger
Maestrelli has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Alexandre MullerMuller – Eero VasaVasa (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Corentin MoutetCorentin – Maxime CressyMaxime (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Radu AlbotAlbot – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David GoffinGoffin – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Antoine BellierBellier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
