Nicolas Mejia and Alex Molcan will play each other in the final of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 2:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alex Molcan who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alex Molcan is the pick to win this match.
Alex Molcan -> 1.533
Nicolas Mejia -> 2.375

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Prediction and head to head Nicolas Mejia vs. Alex Molcan

There is no head to head record between Nicolas Mejia and Alex Molcan since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Nicolas Mejia

Ranked no. 246, Mejia reached the final after defeating Ilya Ivashka 6-2 2-1 ret., Marek Gengel 7-6(8) 3-6 6-2, Milos Karol 6-2 7-6(1) and Luca Potenza 6-3 6-1.

In the semifinal, The Colombian had a good straight sets win against Potenza (6-3 6-1). During the match, Mejia scored 62 points vs Potenza’s 41. Mejia was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Mejia made 13 aces and he was very consistent in conceding no double faults. Nicolas Mejia was quite effective on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 60% (9/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mejia broke Potenza 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Mejia has lost 1 set in this event to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Mejia has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (237-202). 18-16 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mejia has an aggregate 101-90 match record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the season was winning the title the Savannah Challenger where he overcame Liam Draxl in the final 2-6 6-2 7-6(3).

Nicolas has a compiled 30-23 win-loss record in 2025, 18-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Istanbul Challenger

Mejia has never competed in this tournament before.

Alex Molcan

Ranked no. 257, Alex got to the final after defeating Ivan Nedelko 6-4 1-0 ret.

, Martin Landaluce 6-3 6-4, Abedallah Shelbayh 4-6 6-1 7-6(5) and Stefanos Sakellaridis 6-2 6-4.

In the semifinal, Alex had a good straight sets win against Sakellaridis (6-2 6-4). During the match Molcan scored 64 points vs Sakellaridis’s 44. Alex was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Molcan bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alex Molcan lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Molcan put 76% of his first serves in, winning 64% (30/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 80% (12/15) on the 2nd serve. Molcan broke Sakellaridis 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Molcan has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Sofia 2 Challenger where he overcame Joel Schwaerzler in the final 7-5 6-4.

Alex has a composed 42-11 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Mejia	Molcan
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	10	10
Tot Games	78	78
Pts	288-224	258-202
Total Points	512	460
Winners	106	109
%Winners	37%	42%

Both Mejia and Molcan played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Nicolas Mejia lost 1 set, while Alex Molcan lost 1 set. Talking about their workload, Mejia and Molcan have played the same amount of sets 10. They also played the same amount of games (78). The Colombian scored 106 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Molcan managed to score 109 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Mejia	Molcan
Aces	24	8
Avg per match	6	2
1st in	149/240	159/238
%1st in	62%	67%
1st pts	106/149	109/159
%1st pts	71%	69%
2nd pts	57/91	51/79
%2nd pts	63%	65%

Mejia made 24 aces (6 per match). Molcan managed to score 8 aces (2 per match). Mejia won 71% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Molcan won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 65% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Mejia	Molcan
Won	14	15
Converted	14/33	15/28
% Converted	42%	54%
Conceded	16	16
Saved	12	9
% Saved	75%	56%
Times Broken	4	7

Mejia broke his opponents 14 times with a 42% conversion rate. Nicolas dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Molcan broke his opponents 15 times with a 54% conversion rate. The Slovakian conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.

Mejia
	R1 Ivashka	R2 Gengel	1/4 Karol	1/2 Potenza	Total
Score	6-2 2-1 ret.	7-68 3-6 6-2	6-2 7-61	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	3	2	2	9
Tot Games	11	30	21	16	78
pts	41-26	104-91	81-66	62-41	288-224
Total points	67	195	147	103	512
Winners	16	31	33	26	106
%Winners	39%	30%	41%	42%	37%
SERVE
Aces	1	9	1	13	24
Double Faults	0	3	1	0	4
1st in	22/28	47/89	47/75	33/48	149/240
% 1st in	79%	53%	63%	69%	62%
1st pts	16/22	31/47	33/47	26/33	106/149
% 1st pts	73%	66%	70%	79%	71%
2nd pts	5/6	24/42	19/28	9/15	57/91
% 2nd pts	83%	57%	68%	60%	63%
Breaks
Won	3	5	2	4	14
Converted	3/4	5/13	2/10	4/6	14/33
Converted %	75%	38%	20%	67%	42%
Conceded	2	7	6	1	16
Saved	2/2	3/7	6/6	1/1	12
Saved %	100%	43%	100%	100%	86%
Times Broken	0	4	0	0	4

Molcan
	R1 Nedelko	R2 Landaluce	1/4 Shelbayh	1/2 Sakellaridis	Total
Score	6-4 1-0 ret.	6-3 6-4	4-6 6-1 7-65	6-2 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	9
Tot Games	11	19	30	18	78
pts	34-25	60-41	100-92	64-44	258-202
Total points	59	101	192	108	460
Winners	10	27	42	30	109
%Winners	29%	45%	42%	47%	42%
SERVE
Aces	0	1	3	4	8
Double Faults	0	2	3	1	6
1st in	13/29	33/49	66/98	47/62	159/238
% 1st in	45%	67%	67%	76%	67%
1st pts	10/13	27/33	42/66	30/47	109/159
% 1st pts	77%	82%	64%	64%	69%
2nd pts	8/16	11/16	20/32	12/15	51/79
% 2nd pts	50%	69%	63%	80%	65%
Breaks
Won	3	3	5	4	15
Converted	3/3	3/7	5/12	4/6	15/28
Converted %	100%	43%	42%	67%	54%
Conceded	1	1	10	4	16
Saved	0/1	0/1	6/10	3/4	9
Saved %	0%	0%	60%	75%	34%
Times Broken	1	1	4	1	7

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