Dennis Novak and Miguel Damas will square off in the qualifications of the Montemar Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dennis Novak who should win in 2 sets.
Dennis Novak -> 1.33
Miguel Damas -> 3.1
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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Miguel Damas
This will be the 3rd time that Dennis Novak and Miguel Damas face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Novak (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Novak won 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in the Valencia Challenger back in October 2024.
Dennis Novak
28 - 25win/loss
345
85
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-25 | 5-6 | 18-14 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 12-3 | 12-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 6-9 | 4-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-29 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-14 | 8-6 | 0-2 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 345, Dennis reached the qualifications after defeating Darwin Blanch 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Blanch (6-4 6-2). During the match, Novak scored 55 points vs Blanch’s 39. The Austrian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Novak scored just 1 ace during the match and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults. Dennis Novak lost the serve once. Furthermore, Novak put 58% of his first serves in, winning 69% (18/26) of the points behind his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the 2nd serve. Novak broke Blanch 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Novak has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (386-242). 18-14 on clay in 2024. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Novak has a composed 191-125 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Dennis’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Trnava.
The Austrian has an aggregate 28-25 win-loss record in 2024, 18-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montemar Challenger
Novak has never competed in this tournament before.
Miguel Damas
40 - 27win/loss
377
360
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-27 | 10-6 | 30-20 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-35 | 11-15 | 28-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-16 | 4-5 | 17-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-25 | 7-7 | 33-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-10 | 7-4 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 377, Damas reached the qualifications after defeating Pavel Petrov 6-0 6-2.
In the qualifications, Miguel had a good straight sets win against Petrov (6-0 6-2). During the match Damas scored 58 points vs Petrov’s 31. Miguel was pretty aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Talking about serving, Damas scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Miguel Damas was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (15/20) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Damas broke Petrov 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Miguel’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Sabadell and M25 Getxo.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 40-27 win-loss record in 2024, 30-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Novak | Damas |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 14 |
| Pts | 55-39 | 58-31 |
| Total Points | 94 | 89 |
| Winners | 18 | 15 |
| %Winners | 33% | 26% |
Both Novak and Damas 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, Novak and Damas have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Novak played 4 games more than Damas. The Austrian scored 18 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Miguel fired 15 winners (26%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Novak | Damas |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 26/45 | 20/44 |
| %1st in | 58% | 45% |
| 1st pts | 18/26 | 15/20 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/24 |
| %2nd pts | 74% | 58% |
Novak managed to score 1 ace . Damas also bagged 1 ace . Novak won 69% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 74% of the points. On the other side, Damas won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Novak | Damas |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 6/11 |
| % Converted | 40% | 55% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
The Austrian broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Dennis lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Miguel broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Miguel conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Novak | |||
| Q1 Blanch | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 55-39 | 55-39 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 26/45 | 26/45 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 18/26 | 18/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Damas | |||
| Q1 Petrov | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 58-31 | 58-31 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 26% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 20/44 | 20/44 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 45% | |
| 1st pts | 15/20 | 15/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/24 | 14/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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