Tomas Machac and Juncheng Shang will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on PISTA 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 Tomas Machac who should win in 3 sets.
Tomas Machac -> 1.46
Juncheng Shang -> 2.72
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Machac vs. Juncheng Shang
This will be the 2nd time that Tomas Machac and Juncheng Shang face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Machac (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Machac won 6-3 6-0 in the qualifications in the Phoenix Challenger back in 2022.
Tomas Machac
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-10 | 12-6 | 8-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-10 | 16-11 | 18-5 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-19 | 24-6 | 5-2 | 18-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 28-19 | 5-4 | 5-4 | 12-6 | 2-3 | 4-2 |
| 2020 | 27-12 | 0-0 | 12-6 | 15-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 50, Tomas will start his run in Barcelona after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-4 6-2
to Sinner in the quarter on the 27th of March.Tomas has a composed 14-7 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Tomas has an overall 234-114 record. He has a positive 68-38 record on clay.
Previously in Barcelona
Tomas has never competed in this tournament before.
Juncheng Shang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-13 | 9-5 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-23 | 21-14 | 3-3 | 0-2 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-24 | 17-8 | 15-10 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-5 | 6-3 | 12-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 114, the Chinese reached the 1st round after beating Abedallah Shelbayh 6-2 6-1 and Hugo Grenier 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Grenier (6-4 6-4). During the match Shang scored 65 points vs Grenier’s 56. Juncheng was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Shang managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Juncheng Shang conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 4 break points. Furthermore, Shang put 66% of his first serves in, winning 70% (30/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the 2nd serve. Shang broke Grenier twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Juncheng started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Shang’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in Hong Kong.
The Chinese has a compiled 12-6 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Barcelona
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (7-64 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Daniel EvansEvans (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Daniel RinconRincon (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Harold MayotMayot – Pedro CachinCachin (7-65 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-2 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nick HardtHardt – Martin LandaluceLandaluce (2-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo ArnaldiArnaldi – Arthur CazauxCazaux (5-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-3 7-68) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian OfnerSebastian – Pavel KotovPavel (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nicolas JarryJarry (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman – Dusan LajovicLajovic (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut (4-6) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Casper RuudRuud (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Nick HardtHardt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Andrey RublevRublev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harold MayotMayot – Cameron NorrieNorrie (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Rafael NadalNadal (0-0) – H2H and prediction