Mark Lajal and Gastao Elias will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Girona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on PISTA 4. 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 Gastao Elias who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Gastao Elias is the pick to win this match.
Gastao Elias -> 1.51
Mark Lajal -> 2.45
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Prediction and head to head Mark Lajal vs. Gastao Elias
There is no head to head record between Mark Lajal and Gastao Elias since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mark Lajal
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15-15 | 8-7 | 0-3 | 2-3 | 5-2 | 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. 196, Mark will start his run in the Girona Challenger after he played his last match in the Lille Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-7(5) 6-3 to Albot in the 1st round on the 26th of February.
Lajal has an overall 3-6 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Mark has an overall 100-66 record. He has a negative 7-10 record on clay.
Previously in the Girona Challenger
The Estonian has never competed in this tournament before.
Gastao Elias
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-17 | 7-4 | 16-11 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-18 | 10-8 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 4-3 | 18-17 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-18 | 13-5 | 24-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-7 | 14-3 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 313, Elias reached the 1st round after defeating Leonid Sheyngezikht 6-2 7-65 and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-4 0-6 6-4.
In the qualifications, Elias defeated Sanchez-Izquierdo (6-4 0-6 6-4). During the match Elias and Sanchez-Izquierdo scored the same amount of points (85). However, the world no. 196 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Portuguese was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Elias struck 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Gastao Elias lost the serve 5 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Elias put 61% of his first serves in, winning 63% (31/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (15/31) on the 2nd serve. The Portuguese broke Sanchez-Izquierdo 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Elias started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 51% of the points he played.
Elias’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Oeiras 1 Challenger.
Elias has a compiled 18-7 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Girona Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Joao SousaSousa – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Ivan GakhovGakhov (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
