Oleksii Krutykh and Ryan Nijboer will play each other in the qualifications of the Barcelona Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. 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 Oleksii Krutykh who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Oleksii Krutykh is the pick to win this match.
Oleksii Krutykh -> 1.6
Ryan Nijboer -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Oleksii Krutykh vs. Ryan Nijboer
This will be the 2nd time that Oleksii Krutykh and Ryan Nijboer clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nijboer (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Nijboer won 2-6 7-6(6) 6-4 in the 1st round in M15 Cairo back in 2020.
Oleksii Krutykh
7 - 10win/loss
569
160
LLWWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41-40 | 12-8 | 29-31 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-32 | 13-8 | 15-16 | 4-5 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 49-27 | 2-3 | 44-20 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-25 | 8-3 | 32-20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 13-7 | 7-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 401, the Ukrainian got to the qualifications after beating Samuel Balfour Dominguez 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Oleksii had a good straight sets win against Balfour Dominguez (6-2 6-1). During the match, Krutykh scored 56 points vs Balfour Dominguez’s 28. The Ukrainian was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Krutykh scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Oleksii Krutykh was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Ukrainian broke Balfour Dominguez 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Krutykh has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 59% of his matches (204-143). 5-6 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Krutykh has an overall140-88 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
Krutykh has a composed 6-10 win-loss record in 2024, 5-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Barcelona Challenger
Ryan Nijboer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-38 | 8-3 | 45-32 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 55-32 | 12-9 | 41-21 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-23 | 1-6 | 22-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-28 | 9-13 | 18-13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-17 | 13-7 | 5-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 483, Nijboer reached the qualifications after beating Robert Strombachs 6-3 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Strombachs (6-3 6-0). During the match Nijboer scored 58 points vs Strombachs’s 39. The Dutch was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Nijboer scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Ryan Nijboer lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Nijboer put 62% of his first serves in, winning 70% (23/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. Ryan broke Strombachs 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
The Dutch’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Manacor.
Nijboer has a compiled 10-8 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Krutykh | Nijboer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 |
| Pts | 56-28 | 58-39 |
| Total Points | 84 | 97 |
| Winners | 20 | 23 |
| %Winners | 36% | 40% |
Both Krutykh and Nijboer played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Krutykh and Nijboer have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (15). Krutykh scored 20 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Ryan managed to score 23 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Krutykh | Nijboer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 24/39 | 33/53 |
| %1st in | 62% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 23/33 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 8/20 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 40% |
Krutykh blasted 1 ace . Nijboer also managed to score 1 ace . Krutykh won 83% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Nijboer won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 40% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Krutykh | Nijboer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/9 |
| % Converted | 86% | 67% |
| Conceded | 2 | 6 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Oleksii broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. The Ukrainian lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Ryan broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Ryan conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Krutykh | |||
| Q1 Balfour |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 56-28 | 56-28 | |
| Total points | 84 | 84 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 24/39 | 24/39 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 20/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 8/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Nijboer | |||
| Q1 Strombachs |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 58-39 | 58-39 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 33/53 | 33/53 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 23/33 | 23/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/20 | 8/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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