Ryan Nijboer and Luka Mikrut will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Skopje Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 6. 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 Ryan Nijboer who should win in 3 sets.
Ryan Nijboer -> 1.63
Luka Mikrut -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Ryan Nijboer vs. Luka Mikrut
This will be the 2nd time that Ryan Nijboer and Luka Mikrut clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nijboer (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Nijboer won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in M15 Manacor back in January 2024.
Ryan Nijboer
20 - 14win/loss
431
424
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-19 | 8-3 | 18-13 | 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. 463, the Dutch got to the qualifications after defeating George Goldhoff 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Ryan had a good straight sets win against Goldhoff (6-3 6-2). During the match, Nijboer scored 63 points vs Goldhoff’s 44. The Dutch was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nijboer scored 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Ryan Nijboer was extremely efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nijboer broke Goldhoff 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Nijboer has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (219-166). 12-8 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Nijboer has an overall122-89 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
Nijboer’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Manacor.
Ryan has a composed 20-14 win-loss record in 2024, 12-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Skopje Challenger
The Dutch has never competed in this tournament before.
Luka Mikrut
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-15 | 4-2 | 22-11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-18 | 5-3 | 28-14 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-14 | 9-2 | 6-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 502, Mikrut got to the qualifications after beating Dimitar Grabul 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Croatian had a good straight sets win against Grabul (6-3 6-4). During the match Mikrut scored 77 points vs Grabul’s 65. Mikrut was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Mikrut made 4 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Luka Mikrut was quite effective on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Mikrut broke Grabul 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).
Luka’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Manacor and M15 Split.
Luka has an aggregate 14-11 win-loss record in 2024, 10-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nijboer | Mikrut |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 19 |
| Pts | 63-44 | 77-65 |
| Total Points | 107 | 142 |
| Winners | 26 | 24 |
| %Winners | 41% | 31% |
Both Nijboer and Mikrut 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, Nijboer and Mikrut have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nijboer played 2 games less than Mikrut. Nijboer scored 26 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Luka bagged 24 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nijboer | Mikrut |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 31/64 |
| %1st in | 67% | 48% |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 24/31 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 18/33 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 55% |
Nijboer scored 4 aces . Mikrut recorded 4 aces . Nijboer won 74% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Mikrut won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nijboer | Mikrut |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 3/9 |
| % Converted | 40% | 33% |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Dutch broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Dutch pretty effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Mikrut broke his opponent 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Luka conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nijboer | |||
| Q1 Goldhoff | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 63-44 | 63-44 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/52 | 35/52 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Mikrut | |||
| Q1 Grabul | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 77-65 | 77-65 | |
| Total points | 142 | 142 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 31/64 | 31/64 | |
| % 1st in | 48% | 48% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 18/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/9 | 3/9 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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