August Holmgren and Marek Gengel will face off in the 2nd round of the Granby Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 3:00 pm on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is August Holmgren who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, August Holmgren is the pick to win this match.
August Holmgren -> 1.26
Marek Gengel -> 3.55
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Prediction and head to head August Holmgren vs. Marek Gengel
There is no head to head record between August Holmgren and Marek Gengel since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
August Holmgren
12 - 15win/loss
194
144
LWLLLWWLLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23-25 | 14-12 | 3-8 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-25 | 24-12 | 6-6 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 33-14 | 9-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-12 | 18-4 | 10-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-8 | 12-6 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 146 (career-high), Holmgren reached the 2nd round after defeating James Watt 6-7(5) 7-6(3) 6-4.
In the 1st round against Watt, The Dane recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-75 7-63 6-4). During the match, Holmgren scored 117 points vs Watt’s 115. The Dane was exceptionally aggressive to blast 61 winners.
Regarding the service games, Holmgren bagged 15 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. August Holmgren was pretty effective on serve to win 85% (61/72) of his 1st serve and 53% (28/53) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. August broke Watt once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
Holmgren has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (191-109). 4-5 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Holmgren has a compiled117-55 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
August has a compiled 12-15 win-loss record in 2025, 4-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Granby Challenger
Holmgren has never competed in this tournament before.
Marek Gengel
15 - 16win/loss
331
229
LLWLWLLLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-31 | 20-27 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 85-26 | 82-22 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-27 | 14-15 | 0-7 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-29 | 28-16 | 4-8 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 52-28 | 47-14 | 3-8 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 252, Gengel got to the 2nd round after beating Yi Zhou 6-2 7-6(2).
In the 1st round, Marek had a good straight sets win against Zhou (6-2 7-62). During the match Gengel scored 81 points vs Zhou’s 62. Gengel was very aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Gengel scored 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Marek Gengel lost the serve twice and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Gengel put 64% of his first serves in, winning 73% (37/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. Gengel broke Zhou 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Gengel’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Brisbane 1 Challenger.
Marek has a compiled 15-16 win-loss record in 2025, 15-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Holmgren | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 21 |
| Pts | 117-115 | 81-62 |
| Total Points | 232 | 143 |
| Winners | 61 | 37 |
| %Winners | 52% | 46% |
Both Holmgren and Gengel played 1 match. At the moment, August Holmgren lost 1 set while Marek Gengel hasn’t lost a set so far. Holmgren has played 1 set more than Gengel (3 vs 2). Therefore, Holmgren played 15 games more than Gengel. The Dane scored 61 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech bagged 37 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Holmgren | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 15 | 2 |
| 1st in | 72/125 | 51/80 |
| %1st in | 58% | 64% |
| 1st pts | 61/72 | 37/51 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 28/53 | 14/29 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 48% |
Holmgren recorded 15 aces . Gengel bagged 2 aces . Holmgren won 85% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Gengel won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Holmgren | Gengel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 4 |
| Converted | 1/3 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 33% | 57% |
| Conceded | 5 | 11 |
| Saved | 5 | 9 |
| % Saved | 100% | 82% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
August broke his opponent once with a 33% conversion rate. Holmgren quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 5 break points. Gengel broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Marek conceded his serve twice and he saved 82% of the break points that he conceded.
| Holmgren | |||
| R1 Watt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-75 7-63 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 36 | 36 | |
| pts | 117-115 | 117-115 | |
| Total points | 232 | 232 | |
| Winners | 61 | 61 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 72/125 | 72/125 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 61/72 | 61/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 28/53 | 28/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/3 | 1/3 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Gengel | |||
| R1 Zhou |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 81-62 | 81-62 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 51/80 | 51/80 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 37/51 | 37/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/29 | 14/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 82% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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