August Holmgren and Marek Gengel will face off in the 2^nd round of the Granby Challenger for the 1^st 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.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

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

Ranked no. 146 (career-high), Holmgren reached the 2^nd round after defeating James Watt 6-7(5) 7-6(3) 6-4.

In the 1^st 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

Ranked no. 252, Gengel got to the 2^nd round after beating Yi Zhou 6-2 7-6(2).

In the 1^st 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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