Martin Landaluce and Mark Lajal will play each other in the semifinal of the Orleans Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 9:30 pm on CENTRAL ARENA. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Martin Landaluce who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Martin Landaluce is the pick to win this match.
Martin Landaluce -> 1.72
Mark Lajal -> 2.03

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Prediction and head to head Martin Landaluce vs. Mark Lajal

There is no head to head record between Martin Landaluce and Mark Lajal since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Martin Landaluce

Ranked no. 136, the Spaniard reached the semifinal after defeating Dominic Stricker 6-2 6-2, Mae Malige 6-4 6-4 and Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 6-4 6-4.

In the quarter, Martin had a good straight sets win against Budkov Kjaer (6-4 6-4). During the match, Landaluce scored 75 points vs Budkov Kjaer’s 62. Landaluce was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Landaluce struck 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Martin Landaluce lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Landaluce put 54% of his first serves in, winning 74% (29/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (16/33) on the 2nd serve. Martin broke Budkov Kjaer 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Landaluce hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to conquer 56% of the points he played.

Landaluce has a winning match record in the last 4 years having won 55% of his matches (98-79). 3-3 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Landaluce has an overall9-8 record in the last 4 years on indoor hard courts.

Landaluce’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Canberra Challenger,the Prague Challenger and the Nottingham 2 Challenger.

The Spaniard has a composed 30-26 win-loss record in 2025, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Orleans Challenger

Mark Lajal

Ranked no. 145 (career-high), Mark got to the semifinal after defeating Viktor Durasovic 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(5), Chris Rodesch 6-4 6-2 and Remy Bertola 6-4 3-6 6-3.

In the quarter, Mark defeated Bertola (6-4 3-6 6-3). During the match Lajal scored 96 points vs Bertola’s 85. The Estonian was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Lajal managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Mark Lajal was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (38/52) of his 1st serve and 58% (22/38) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Mark broke Bertola 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Lajal has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Bloomfield Hills Challenger where he beat Andres Martin in the final 6-7(7) 7-5 7-6(9).

Lajal has a composed 39-19 win-loss record in 2025, 8-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Orleans Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Landaluce	Lajal
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	6	8
Tot Games	56	81
Pts	201-161	281-242
Total Points	362	523
Winners	71	129
%Winners	35%	46%

Both Landaluce and Lajal played 3 matches. At the moment, Mark Lajal surrendered 2 sets while Martin Landaluce hasn’t dropped a set so far. Landaluce has played 2 set(s) less than Lajal (6 vs 8). Therefore, Landaluce played 25 games less than Lajal. The Spaniard scored 71 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Mark struck 129 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Landaluce	Lajal
Aces	10	25
Avg per match	3.3	8.3
1st in	94/175	163/266
%1st in	54%	61%
1st pts	71/94	129/163
%1st pts	76%	79%
2nd pts	46/81	54/103
%2nd pts	57%	52%

Landaluce struck 10 aces (3.3 per match). Lajal fired 25 aces (8.3 per match). Landaluce won 76% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Lajal won 79% 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	Landaluce	Lajal
Won	11	9
Converted	11/23	9/23
% Converted	48%	39%
Conceded	10	23
Saved	7	19
% Saved	70%	83%
Times Broken	3	4

Landaluce broke his opponents 11 times with a 48% conversion rate. Martin dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. Mark broke his opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. The Estonian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.

Landaluce
	R1 Stricker	R2 Malige	1/4 Budkov	Total
Score	6-2 6-2	6-4 6-4	6-4 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	16	20	20	56
pts	54-37	72-62	75-62	201-161
Total points	91	134	137	362
Winners	20	22	29	71
%Winners	37%	31%	39%	35%
SERVE
Aces	3	4	3	10
Double Faults	5	2	2	9
1st in	25/46	30/57	39/72	94/175
% 1st in	54%	53%	54%	54%
1st pts	20/25	22/30	29/39	71/94
% 1st pts	80%	73%	74%	76%
2nd pts	10/21	20/27	16/33	46/81
% 2nd pts	48%	74%	48%	57%
Breaks
Won	5	2	4	11
Converted	5/7	2/8	4/8	11/23
Converted %	71%	25%	50%	48%
Conceded	1	2	7	10
Saved	0/1	2/2	5/7	7
Saved %	0%	100%	71%	57%
Times Broken	1	0	2	3

Lajal
	R1 Durasovic	R2 Rodesch	1/4 Bertola	Total
Score	6-3 6-73 7-65	6-4 6-2	6-4 3-6 6-3
Tot Set	3	2	3	8
Tot Games	35	18	28	81
pts	120-110	65-47	96-85	281-242
Total points	230	112	181	523
Winners	62	29	38	129
%Winners	52%	45%	40%	46%
SERVE
Aces	13	7	5	25
Double Faults	6	2	3	11
1st in	76/128	35/48	52/90	163/266
% 1st in	59%	73%	58%	61%
1st pts	62/76	29/35	38/52	129/163
% 1st pts	82%	83%	73%	79%
2nd pts	26/52	6/13	22/38	54/103
% 2nd pts	50%	46%	58%	52%
Breaks
Won	2	4	3	9
Converted	2/6	4/7	3/10	9/23
Converted %	33%	57%	30%	39%
Conceded	13	1	9	23
Saved	12/13	0/1	7/9	19
Saved %	92%	0%	78%	57%
Times Broken	1	1	2	4

Tennis Scores in Orleans Challenger

• Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Nicolai Budkov KjaerBudkov Kjaer (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Raphael CollignonCollignon – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Justin EngelEngel – Patrick KypsonKypson (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Mark LajalLajal – Remy BertolaBertola (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Clement Chidekh/Luca SanchezChidekh/Luca Sanchez – Milos Karol/Lukas KleinKarol/Lukas Klein (3-6 7-6⁸ 10-2) – See score progression

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