H2H, prediction of Radu Albot vs Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo in Girona Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 30th March 2024

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Prediction and head to head Radu Albot vs. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo

Radu Albot and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Girona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 11:00 am on PISTA CENTRAL. 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 Radu Albot who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Radu Albot is the pick to win this match.
Radu Albot -> 1.54
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo -> 2.34

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Prediction and head to head Radu Albot vs. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo

There is no head to head record between Radu Albot and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Radu Albot

Radu Albot
Radu Albot

15 - 8win/loss

Hard
3-3
I Hard
4-3
Clay
8-2
Rank
165
High
39
LLWWLWWWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 37-26 12-9 17-11 4-3 4-3 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. 155, Radu reached the semifinal after beating Gregoire Barrere 7-66 7-5, Carlos Taberner 6-4 6-1 and Javier Barranco Cosano 7-65 6-3.

In the quarter, The Moldovan had a good straight sets win against Barranco Cosano (7-65 6-3). During the match, Albot scored 70 points vs Barranco Cosano’s 65. Radu was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Albot wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Radu Albot lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Albot put 64% of his first serves in, winning 58% (26/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. Albot broke Barranco Cosano 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Albot hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 54% of the points he played.

Albot has winning record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (325-274). 7-2 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Albot has a compiled 95-79 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Albot has an overall 14-8 win-loss record in 2024, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Girona Challenger

Radu has never competed in this tournament before.

Albot
Girona Challenger
Albot's Record

Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo

Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo

9 - 10win/loss

Hard
2-2
I Hard
0-1
Clay
7-7
Rank
356
High
238
LWLWWWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 30-35 2-2 28-32 0-1 0-0 0-0
2023 45-31 4-5 41-23 0-3 0-0 0-0
2022 33-29 5-0 26-25 2-4 0-0 0-0
2021 40-32 0-2 39-28 1-2 0-0 0-0
2020 33-16 1-1 32-13 0-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 285, Nikolas got to the semifinal after defeating Matthew Christopher Romios 6-0 6-1, Pablo Llamas Ruiz 4-6 6-3 6-3, Gastao Elias 5-7 6-3 6-4 and Joao Sousa w/o.

In the quarter, Nikolas defeated Sousa (w/o). During the match Sanchez-Izquierdo and Sousa scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 155 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Spaniard was not very aggressive do strike just winners.

About the serving games, Sanchez-Izquierdo couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sanchez-Izquierdo started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

The Spaniard has an overall 9-9 win-loss record in 2024, 7-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Girona Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.

Sanchez-Izquierdo
Girona Challenger
Sanchez-Izquierdo's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

R.Albot
N. Sanchez-Izquierdo
5h:17
5h:17
Time on court​
!
8h:35
8h:35
1h:45
1h:45
Last match​
!
2h:39
2h:39
3
3
Match played
!
4
4
64
64
Games Played​
98
98
6
6
Set played​​
11
11
221
221
Total points​
368
368
73.7
73.7
Avg point​
92
92
92
92
Winners
149
149
30.7
30.7
Avg Winners​
37.3
37.3
42%
42%
Ratio winners
40%
40%
-- Serve --
6
6
Aces
8
8
2
2
Avg Aces
2
2
5
5
Double Faults
14
14
1.7
1.7
Avg Double Faults
3.5
3.5
92/140
92/140
1st won total​
149/215
149/215
66%
66%
1st won %
69%
69%
30/64
30/64
2nd won total​
75/140
75/140
47%
47%
2nd won %
54%
54%
-- Break Points --
15/25
15/25
BP won
16/39
16/39
5/8.3
5/8.3
Avg BP won
4/9.8
4/9.8
!
60%
60%
Won
41%
41%
15
15
Conceded
39
39
5
5
Avg Conceded
9.8
9.8
8
8
Broken
9
9
2.7
2.7
Avg Broken
2.3
2.3
7
7
Saved
30
30

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Albot Sanchez-Izquierdo
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 6 8
Tot Games 64 72
Pts 221-187 272-216
Total Points 408 488
Winners 92 110
%Winners 42% 40%

Both Albot and Sanchez-Izquierdo played 3 matches. At the moment, Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo lost 2 sets while Radu Albot hasn’t dropped a set so far. Albot has played 2 set(s) less than Sanchez-Izquierdo (6 vs 8). Therefore, Albot played 8 games less than Sanchez-Izquierdo. The Moldovan scored 92 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 110 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve Albot Sanchez-Izquierdo
Aces 6 3
Avg per match 2 1
1st in 140/204 162/247
%1st in 69% 66%
1st pts 92/140 110/162
%1st pts 66% 68%
2nd pts 30/64 49/85
%2nd pts 47% 58%

Albot bagged 6 aces (2 per match). Sanchez-Izquierdo managed to score 3 aces (1 per match). Albot won 66% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Sanchez-Izquierdo won 68% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Albot Sanchez-Izquierdo
Won 15 14
Converted 15/25 14/29
% Converted 60% 48%
Conceded 15 28
Saved 7 22
% Saved 47% 79%
Times Broken 8 6

Radu broke his opponents 15 times with a 60% conversion rate. Radu conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 47% of the break points that he conceded. Nikolas broke his opponents 14 times with a 48% conversion rate. Sanchez-Izquierdo conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 79% of the break points that he conceded.

Albot
R1
Barrere
R2
Taberner
1/4
Barranco
Total
Score 7-66 7-5 6-4 6-1 7-65 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 25 17 22 64
pts 90-81 61-41 70-65 221-187
Total points 171 102 135 408
Winners 42 24 26 92
%Winners 47% 39% 37% 42%
SERVE
Aces 3 3 0 6
Double Faults 1 2 2 5
1st in 62/88 33/46 45/70 140/204
% 1st in 70% 72% 64% 69%
1st pts 42/62 24/33 26/45 92/140
% 1st pts 68% 73% 58% 66%
2nd pts 12/26 5/13 13/25 30/64
% 2nd pts 46% 38% 52% 47%
Breaks
Won 4 6 5 15
Converted 4/10 6/8 5/7 15/25
Converted % 40% 75% 71% 60%
Conceded 5 2 8 15
Saved 2/5 0/2 5/8 7
Saved % 40% 0% 63% 34%
Times Broken 3 2 3 8
Sanchez-Izquierdo
Q1
Christopher
Q3
Elias
R1
Llamas
R2
Elias
1/4
Sousa
Total
Score 6-0 6-1 6-4 0-6 6-4 4-6 6-3 6-3 5-7 6-3 6-4 w/o
Tot Set 2 3 3 3 11
Tot Games 13 26 28 31 98
pts 63-34 96-108 101-86 108-96 368-324
Total points 97 204 187 204 692
Winners 26 39 38 46 149
%Winners 41% 41% 38% 43% 40%
SERVE
Aces 1 5 1 1 8
Double Faults 2 3 5 4 14
1st in 36/49 53/108 61/102 65/96 215/355
% 1st in 73% 49% 60% 68% 61%
1st pts 26/36 39/53 38/61 46/65 149/215
% 1st pts 72% 74% 62% 71% 69%
2nd pts 8/13 26/55 22/41 19/31 75/140
% 2nd pts 62% 47% 54% 61% 54%
Breaks
Won 5 2 6 3 16
Converted 5/8 2/10 6/10 3/11 16/39
Converted % 63% 20% 60% 27% 41%
Conceded 4 11 14 10 39
Saved 4/4 8/11 10/14 8/10 30
Saved % 100% 73% 71% 80% 108%
Times Broken 0 3 4 2 9

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Albot
LLWWLWWWLW
Sanchez-Izquierdo
LWLWWWLWWL
2024 2023 2022
37 - 26
30 - 35
12-9
Hard
2-2
4-3
I Hard
0-1
17-11
Clay
28-32
4-3
Grass
0-0

Tennis Scores in Girona Challenger

  • Gonzalo Escobar/Aleksandr NedovyesovEscobar/Aleksandr NedovyesovSander Arends/Matwe MiddelkoopArends/Matwe Middelkoop (6-3 1-6 10-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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Upcoming matches in the draw

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