Oriol Roca Batalla and Nicholas David Ionel will square off in the qualifications of the Iasi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Oriol Roca Batalla who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Oriol Roca Batalla is the pick to win this match.
Oriol Roca Batalla -> 1.39
Nicholas David Ionel -> 2.81
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Prediction and head to head Oriol Roca Batalla vs. Nicholas David Ionel
This will be the 2nd time that Oriol Roca Batalla and Nicholas David Ionel face off. The head to head is 1-0 for David Ionel (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, David Ionel won 7-6(3) 6-0 in the 1st round in the Antalya Challenger back in 2023.
Oriol Roca Batalla
18 - 17win/loss
505
150
LWWWLWWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-18 | 0-1 | 20-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-34 | 5-7 | 27-25 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-38 | 8-4 | 42-34 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-26 | 0-0 | 50-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-21 | 0-1 | 25-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 318, Oriol got to the qualifications after beating Max Alcala Gurri 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Alcala Gurri (7-5 6-3). During the match, Roca Batalla scored 66 points vs Alcala Gurri’s 53. The Spaniard was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Regarding the service games, Roca Batalla blasted 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Oriol Roca Batalla was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of his 1st serve and 60% (18/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Roca Batalla broke Alcala Gurri twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Roca Batalla has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (400-249). 18-16 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Roca Batalla has a compiled 366-218 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
The Spaniard’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Ostrava Challenger.
Roca Batalla has a compiled 18-17 win-loss record in 2025, 18-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Oriol has never competed in this tournament before.
Nicholas David Ionel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-27 | 0-0 | 36-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 74-34 | 0-2 | 74-31 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-38 | 7-7 | 43-30 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 66-33 | 17-9 | 48-20 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-33 | 14-4 | 33-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 355, David Ionel got to the qualifications after defeating Zdenek Kolar 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Kolar (7-5 6-4). During the match David Ionel scored 74 points vs Kolar’s 69. Nicholas was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, David Ionel bagged 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nicholas David Ionel lost the serve twice and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, David Ionel put 58% of his first serves in, winning 67% (30/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the 2nd serve. David Ionel broke Kolar 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Nicholas’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Alaminos.
The Romanian has an overall 22-13 win-loss record in 2025, 22-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021 and 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Roca Batalla | David Ionel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 22 |
| Pts | 66-53 | 74-69 |
| Total Points | 119 | 143 |
| Winners | 27 | 30 |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% |
Both Roca Batalla and David Ionel 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, Roca Batalla and David Ionel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Roca Batalla played 1 game less than David Ionel. Roca Batalla scored 27 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Nicholas made 30 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Roca Batalla | David Ionel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 2 |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 45/78 |
| %1st in | 51% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 27/31 | 30/45 |
| %1st pts | 87% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 18/30 | 17/33 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 52% |
Roca Batalla struck 5 aces . David Ionel blasted 2 aces . Roca Batalla won 87% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, David Ionel won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Roca Batalla | David Ionel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 44% |
| Conceded | 1 | 12 |
| Saved | 1 | 10 |
| % Saved | 100% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Roca Batalla broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Oriol pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points. David Ionel broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. David Ionel conceded his serve twice and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Roca Batalla | |||
| Q1 Alcala Gurri |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 66-53 | 66-53 | |
| Total points | 119 | 119 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 31/61 | 31/61 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 27/31 | 27/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/30 | 18/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| David Ionel | |||
| Q1 Kolar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 74-69 | 74-69 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/78 | 45/78 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 30/45 | 30/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/33 | 17/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 10/12 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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