Philip Sekulic and Mark Lajal will play each other in the 1st round of the Winnipeg Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mark Lajal who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mark Lajal is the pick to win this match.
Mark Lajal -> 1.42
Philip Sekulic -> 2.73
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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Mark Lajal
This will be the 2nd time that Philip Sekulic and Mark Lajal face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Lajal (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Lajal won 7-6(4) 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Gwangju Challenger back in April 2024.
Philip Sekulic
20 - 19win/loss
295
225
LWWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-31 | 34-26 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-28 | 33-24 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-15 | 10-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-3 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 241, the Australian will start his run in the Winnipeg Challenger after he played his last match in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger where he lost 4-6 7-6(4) 6-3 to Tien in the quarter on the 5th of July.
Philip has a composed 19-19 win-loss record in 2024, 19-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Sekulic’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Wuxi Challenger and the Kachreti Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Sekulic has an overall 95-76 record. He has a positive 81-60 record on hard.
Previously in the Winnipeg Challenger
Sekulic has never competed in this tournament before.
Mark Lajal
17 - 17win/loss
229
191
LLWWLWWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 269, Lajal reached the 1st round after defeating Ryan Seggerman 6-3 6-7(5) 6-0 and Hiroki Moriya 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Estonian had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-3 6-1). During the match Lajal scored 59 points vs Moriya’s 39. The Estonian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Lajal scored 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Mark Lajal lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Lajal put 52% of his first serves in, winning 78% (21/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (12/25) on the 2nd serve. Mark broke Moriya 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lajal started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Lajal’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Shenzhen 1 Challenger.
The Estonian has an overall 17-16 win-loss record in 2024, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWWLWW Tennis Scores in Winnipeg Challenger
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Ethan QuinnQuinn (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuta ShimizuShimizu – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam DraxlDraxl – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Antoine BellierBellier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Tristan SchoolkateSchoolkate (0-0) – H2H and prediction
