Robert Strombachs and Radu Mihai Papoe will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Iasi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Mihai Papoe who should win in 3 sets.
Radu Mihai Papoe -> 1.52
Robert Strombachs -> 2.42
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Prediction and head to head Robert Strombachs vs. Radu Mihai Papoe
There is no head to head record between Robert Strombachs and Radu Mihai Papoe since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Robert Strombachs
18 - 21win/loss
430
334
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 24-26 | 4-4 | 13-15 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 54-33 | 44-21 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 68-30 | 47-21 | 15-4 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-26 | 18-15 | 1-3 | 1-6 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 13-11 | 6-5 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
Ranked no. 452, Strombachs reached the qualifications after defeating Daniel Uta 6-3 6-2 and Radu Mihai Papoe .
In the qualifications, Strombachs had a good straight sets win against Uta (6-3 6-2). During the match, Strombachs scored 68 points vs Uta’s 44. Strombachs was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Strombachs wasn’t able to score even 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Robert Strombachs lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Strombachs put 78% of his first serves in, winning 78% (31/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (4/11) on the 2nd serve. Robert broke Uta 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Strombachs has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 60% of his matches (248-165). 8-9 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Strombachs has a composed54-43 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Strombachs has an aggregate 18-19 win-loss record in 2024, 8-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Robert has never competed in this tournament before.
Radu Mihai Papoe
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 19-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-8 | 0-0 | 19-6 | 13-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-9 | 3-1 | 16-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-11 | 2-1 | 11-7 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 617, Radu got to the qualifications after defeating Tudor Stefan Gheorghita 6-0 6-0.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Stefan Gheorghita (6-0 6-0). During the match Mihai scored 51 points vs Stefan Gheorghita’s 18. Radu was extremely aggressive to blast 18 winners.
About the serving games, Mihai scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Radu Mihai Papoe conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 55% of his first serves in, win 86% (18/21) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. Radu was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Stefan Gheorghita 6 times.
Radu’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Ithaca and M15 Cluj Napoca.
Radu has an aggregate 13-4 win-loss record in 2024, 10-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Strombachs | Mihai |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 12 |
| Pts | 68-44 | 51-18 |
| Total Points | 112 | 69 |
| Winners | 31 | 18 |
| %Winners | 46% | 35% |
Both Strombachs and Mihai played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Strombachs and Mihai have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Strombachs played 5 games more than Mihai. Robert scored 31 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian fired 18 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Strombachs | Mihai |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 1 |
| 1st in | 40/51 | 21/38 |
| %1st in | 78% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 18/21 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 4/11 | 8/17 |
| %2nd pts | 36% | 47% |
Strombachs didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Mihai struck 1 ace . Strombachs won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 36% of the points. On the other side, Mihai won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Strombachs | Mihai |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 6 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 6/6 |
| % Converted | 45% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 33% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Robert broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The German surrendered his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The Romanian broke his opponent 6 times with a 100% conversion rate. Radu was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Strombachs | |||
| Q1 Uta | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 68-44 | 68-44 | |
| Total points | 112 | 112 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 40/51 | 40/51 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 31/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 36% | 36% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Mihai | |||
| Q1 Stefan Gheorghita | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 12 | |
| pts | 51-18 | 51-18 | |
| Total points | 69 | 69 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 21/38 | 21/38 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 18/21 | 18/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/17 | 8/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/6 | 6/6 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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