Pedro Martinez Portero and Radu Albot will clash against each other in the final of the Girona Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on PISTA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pedro Martinez Portero who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Pedro Martinez Portero is the pick to win this match.
Pedro Martinez Portero -> 1.52
Radu Albot -> 2.42

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Prediction and head to head Pedro Martinez Portero vs. Radu Albot

This will be the 3^rd time that Pedro Martinez Portero and Radu Albot clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Martinez Portero (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they played, Martinez Portero won 7-6(2) 7-6(13) in the 2^nd round in the Brest Challenger back in 2023.

Pedro Martinez Portero

Ranked no. 88, the Spaniard reached the final after defeating Vilius Gaubas 7-6⁹ 6-4, Marco Trungelliti 6-2 1-0 ret., Jesper De Jong 7-6⁴ 3-6 6-2 and Benjamin Hassan 6-4 7-5.

In the semifinal, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Hassan (6-4 7-5). During the match, Martinez Portero scored 81 points vs Hassan’s 76. The Spaniard was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Regarding the service games, Martinez Portero scored just 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 4 double faults. Pedro Martinez Portero lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Martinez Portero put 70% of his first serves in, winning 63% (34/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 35% (8/23) on the 2nd serve. Martinez Portero broke Hassan 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Martinez Portero has conceded 1 set in this tournament to conquer 51% of the points he played.

Martinez Portero has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (396-248). 7-2 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Martinez Portero has an overall 317-170 match record in the last years on clay.

The Spaniard’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Tenerife 1 Challenger.

Martinez Portero has a composed 13-6 win-loss record in 2024, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Girona Challenger

Radu Albot

Ranked no. 155, Albot got to the final after beating Gregoire Barrere 7-6⁶ 7-5, Carlos Taberner 6-4 6-1, Javier Barranco Cosano 7-6⁵ 6-3 and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-4 6-2.

In the semifinal, The Moldovan had a good straight sets win against Sanchez-Izquierdo (6-4 6-2). During the match Albot scored 65 points vs Sanchez-Izquierdo’s 50. The Moldovan was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Albot couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Radu Albot lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Albot put 67% of his first serves in, winning 67% (24/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the 2nd serve. Radu broke Sanchez-Izquierdo 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Albot hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Radu’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Girona Challenger.

Radu has an overall 15-8 win-loss record in 2024, 8-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Girona Challenger

The Moldovan has never competed in this tournament before.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Martinez Portero	Albot
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	10	8
Tot Games	84	82
Pts	305-279	286-237
Total Points	584	523
Winners	149	116
%Winners	49%	41%

Both Martinez Portero and Albot played 4 matches. At the moment, Pedro Martinez Portero lost 1 set while Radu Albot hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Martinez Portero has played 2 sets more than Albot (10 vs 8). Therefore, Martinez Portero played 2 games more than Albot. Pedro scored 149 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Albot struck 116 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Martinez Portero	Albot
Aces	2	6
Avg per match	0.5	1.5
1st in	233/309	176/258
%1st in	75%	68%
1st pts	149/233	116/176
%1st pts	64%	66%
2nd pts	34/76	42/82
%2nd pts	45%	51%

Martinez Portero managed to score 2 aces (0.5 per match). Albot bagged 6 aces (1.5 per match). Martinez Portero won 64% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 45% of the points. On the other side, Albot won 66% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Martinez Portero	Albot
Won	17	19
Converted	17/33	19/31
% Converted	52%	61%
Conceded	29	19
Saved	18	10
% Saved	62%	53%
Times Broken	11	9

Pedro broke his opponents 17 times with a 52% conversion rate. Pedro lost his serve 11 times and he saved 62% of the break points that he conceded. Radu broke his opponents 19 times with a 61% conversion rate. The Moldovan conceded his serve 9 times and he saved 53% of the break points that he conceded.

Martinez Portero
	R1 Gaubas	R2 Trungelliti	1/4 De Jong	1/2 Hassan	Total
Score	7-69 6-4	6-2 1-0 ret.	7-64 3-6 6-2	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	9
Tot Games	23	9	30	22	84
pts	87-82	47-32	90-89	81-76	305-279
Total points	169	79	179	157	584
Winners	50	15	50	34	149
%Winners	57%	32%	56%	42%	49%
SERVE
Aces	1	0	0	1	2
Double Faults	3	1	4	4	12
1st in	79/99	24/30	76/103	54/77	233/309
% 1st in	80%	80%	74%	70%	75%
1st pts	50/79	15/24	50/76	34/54	149/233
% 1st pts	63%	63%	66%	63%	64%
2nd pts	10/20	4/6	12/27	8/23	34/76
% 2nd pts	50%	67%	44%	35%	45%
Breaks
Won	3	4	4	6	17
Converted	3/3	4/9	4/7	6/14	17/33
Converted %	100%	44%	57%	43%	52%
Conceded	5	2	13	9	29
Saved	3/5	1/2	9/13	5/9	18
Saved %	60%	50%	69%	56%	59%
Times Broken	2	1	4	4	11

Albot
	R1 Barrere	R2 Taberner	1/4 Barranco	1/2 Sanchez-Izquierdo	Total
Score	7-66 7-5	6-4 6-1	7-65 6-3	6-4 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	25	17	22	18	82
pts	90-81	61-41	70-65	65-50	286-237
Total points	171	102	135	115	523
Winners	42	24	26	24	116
%Winners	47%	39%	37%	37%	41%
SERVE
Aces	3	3	0	0	6
Double Faults	1	2	2	1	6
1st in	62/88	33/46	45/70	36/54	176/258
% 1st in	70%	72%	64%	67%	68%
1st pts	42/62	24/33	26/45	24/36	116/176
% 1st pts	68%	73%	58%	67%	66%
2nd pts	12/26	5/13	13/25	12/18	42/82
% 2nd pts	46%	38%	52%	67%	51%
Breaks
Won	4	6	5	4	19
Converted	4/10	6/8	5/7	4/6	19/31
Converted %	40%	75%	71%	67%	61%
Conceded	5	2	8	4	19
Saved	2/5	0/2	5/8	3/4	10
Saved %	40%	0%	63%	75%	45%
Times Broken	3	2	3	1	9

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