Justin Engel and Sander Jong will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Hamburg Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 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 Justin Engel who should win in 2 sets.
Justin Engel -> 1.22
Sander Jong -> 3.94
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Prediction and head to head Justin Engel vs. Sander Jong
There is no head to head record between Justin Engel and Sander Jong since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Justin Engel
33 - 31win/loss
195
188
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-32 | 8-9 | 11-14 | 9-5 | 3-3 | 8-1 |
| 2024 | 37-17 | 4-3 | 32-12 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-12 | 0-0 | 11-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 235, the German will start his run in the Hamburg Challenger after he played his last match in the Olbia Challenger where he lost 7-5 7-5 to Landaluce in the 1st round on the 16th of October.
Engel has a composed 33-31 win-loss record in 2025, 3-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Engel’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Cadolzburg.
Talking about his overall career, Engel has an overall 85-70 record. He has a negative 4-8 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Hamburg Challenger
Justin has never competed in this tournament before.
Sander Jong
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-12 | 12-5 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2023 | 37-15 | 2-2 | 29-11 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 6-7 | 3-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 831, Sander got to the 1st round after beating Daniel Masur 7-5 6-3 and Niklas Guttau 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, Jong had a good straight sets win against Guttau (6-2 6-1). During the match Jong scored 59 points vs Guttau’s 35. The Dutch was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Jong bagged 13 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Sander Jong conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Jong put 58% of his first serves in, winning 93% (26/28) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Jong broke Guttau 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sander started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Sander has a composed 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Hamburg Challenger
- Buvaysar GadamauriGadamauri – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (7-5 2-6 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico CinaCina – Milos KarolKarol (7-65 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Niels McdonaldMcdonald (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Marvin MoellerMoeller (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matej DodigDodig – Eliakim CoulibalyCoulibaly (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mathys ErhardErhard – Christoph NegrituNegritu (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Pedro Vives MarcosVives Marcos (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Mika PetkovicPetkovic (2-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- George LoffhagenLoffhagen – Marko TopoTopo (6-710 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henri SquireSquire – Gauthier OnclinOnclin (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jamie MackenzieMackenzie – Francesco FortiForti (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Buvaysar GadamauriGadamauri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Henri SquireSquire (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jannik OpitzOpitz – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- George LoffhagenLoffhagen – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (2-0) – H2H and prediction