Toby Samuel and Daniel Rincon will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Hersonissos 1 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:30 am on Court 17. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Toby Samuel who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Toby Samuel is the pick to win this match.
Toby Samuel -> 1.42
Daniel Rincon -> 2.61
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Prediction and head to head Toby Samuel vs. Daniel Rincon
This will be the 2nd time that Toby Samuel and Daniel Rincon play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Samuel (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Samuel won 7-5 6-0 in the 1st round in the Tenerife 2 Challenger back in February 2026.
Toby Samuel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 44-16 | 29-5 | 7-5 | 3-1 | 5-5 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 57-16 | 49-11 | 3-1 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-14 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 8-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-5 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 5-1 | 8-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 244, Samuel got to the 2nd round after defeating Raul Brancaccio 6-3 4-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Brit defeated Brancaccio (6-3 4-6 6-3). During the match, Samuel scored 94 points vs Brancaccio’s 80. The Brit was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Samuel made 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Toby Samuel lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Samuel put 66% of his first serves in, winning 65% (35/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 75% (21/28) on the 2nd serve. Samuel broke Brancaccio 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Samuel has a fantastic record in the last 6 years having won 74% of his matches (114-41). 8-3 on hard in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Samuel has an aggregate76-20 record in the last 6 years on hard.
Toby’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Vale do Lobo.
The Brit has a composed 11-4 win-loss record in 2026, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hersonissos 1 Challenger
Samuel has never competed in this tournament before.
Daniel Rincon
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35-25 | 9-9 | 25-14 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 32-28 | 8-2 | 15-21 | 9-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-28 | 3-7 | 25-19 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 19-7 | 31-18 | 0-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-29 | 6-10 | 31-16 | 10-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303, the Spaniard reached the 2nd round after beating Viktor Durasovic 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (6-3 6-1). During the match Rincon scored 59 points vs Durasovic’s 35. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Rincon scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Daniel Rincon was extremely efficient on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Daniel broke Durasovic 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Daniel has a compiled 3-4 win-loss record in 2026, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Samuel | Rincon |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 16 |
| Pts | 94-80 | 59-35 |
| Total Points | 174 | 94 |
| Winners | 35 | 23 |
| %Winners | 37% | 39% |
Both Samuel and Rincon played 1 match. At the moment, Toby Samuel lost 1 set while Daniel Rincon hasn’t lost a set so far. Samuel has played 1 set more than Rincon (3 vs 2). Therefore, Samuel played 12 games more than Rincon. Toby scored 35 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Rincon recorded 23 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Samuel | Rincon |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1 |
| 1st in | 54/82 | 29/46 |
| %1st in | 66% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 35/54 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 21/28 | 9/17 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 53% |
Samuel managed to score 2 aces . Rincon bagged 1 ace . Samuel won 65% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Rincon won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Samuel | Rincon |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 40% | 50% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 60% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Brit broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Toby conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded. Daniel broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Spaniard conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Samuel | |||
| R1 Brancaccio |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 94-80 | 94-80 | |
| Total points | 174 | 174 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 54/82 | 54/82 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 35/54 | 35/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 21/28 | 21/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Rincon | |||
| R1 Durasovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-35 | 59-35 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 29/46 | 29/46 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/17 | 9/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWWWWWW Tennis Scores in Hersonissos 1 Challenger
- Ioannis XilasXilas – Gabriele PirainoPiraino (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Buvaysar GadamauriGadamauri – Philip HenningHenning (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Pietro Orlando FellinOrlando Fellin (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh – Pavlos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Michael GeertsGeerts – Tiago PereiraPereira (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefanos SakellaridisSakellaridis – Lorenzo CarboniCarboni (4-6 7-5 3-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Robin BertrandBertrand – Adria Soriano BarreraSoriano Barrera (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Maxim MrvaMrva – Svyatoslav GulinGulin (4-6 7-66 6-1) – See score progression
- Harry WendelkenWendelken – Lui MaxtedMaxted (4-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Stefan DostanicDostanic – Maximus JonesJones (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Toby SamuelSamuel – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel RinconRincon – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Menelaos EfstathiouEfstathiou – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Jacopo VasamiVasami (6-1 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
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