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Marton Fucsovics v Guillermo Garcia Lopez

Every number combines what Marton Fucsovics does well with what Guillermo Garcia Lopez allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Forecast

Marton Fucsovics wins, best of 3 67%90%: 38%–88% · best of 5: 71%
Serve points won 64.0% / 60.5% Marton / Guillermo · tour 63.4%
Strengths only, no similarity priors 61%serve 63.4% / 61.2%

Each player's serve and return strength is fitted against every opponent they were charted against, so a record built on weak opponents counts for less. At least one of them is no longer active or has too little charted in the last three seasons, so both are compared on their careers. The result is then nudged by Marton Fucsovics's record against Guillermo Garcia Lopez's tactical lookalikes and in their charted head-to-heads (lookalikes: +7.9 on serve, +10.2 on return vs expectation (216 points)). A game-by-game Markov chain turns point odds into match odds; the 90% range covers the uncertainty in the two strengths, not the nudges. Charted matches lean toward big events, so treat this as a scouting estimate, not a betting line.

Head to head, per 100 shots

CareerMartonGuillermo
Direction choice−0.08 ±0.08
better than 36%
−0.10 ±0.14
better than 30%
Shot selection−0.45 ±0.12
better than 13%
−0.35 ±0.19
better than 19%
Execution−0.38 ±0.31
better than 49%
+0.73 ±0.86
better than 89%
Points left on the table2.57 ±0.09
lower than 53%
2.65 ±0.24
lower than 46%

Each player's career against an average tour player in the same position, adjusted for opponent strength, with a 90% margin (shots clustered by match). Points left on the table is the gap to the best-value direction for the same stroke, so lower is better. Percentiles are within each player's own tour. A side is highlighted only when the gap is larger than the margin on the difference.

Serve plan

The share of points the server wins when a first serve lands in that direction (hover a rate for its 90% interval; ± is the 90% margin). "Matchup" combines the server's rate with how this returner handles that serve. "Optimal" is the mix that wins most against this returner once they start reading a habit, at the response measured across the tour, and only within the range servers' habits actually vary. The gain over the current mix is how exploitable that mix is.

Marton Fucsovics serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowMarton winsv GuillermoMatchupOptimal
Wide39%69%72%67.5%±8.052% ▲
Body14%68%61%66.0%±10.64% ▼
T47%69%73%66.8%±7.344% ▼

Optimal v Guillermo Garcia Lopez: +0.2±0.8 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +0.5 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowMarton winsv GuillermoMatchupOptimal
Wide54%68%79%74.8%±6.967% ▲
Body13%63%70%69.4%±11.20% ▼
T33%71%74%72.9%±7.933%

Optimal v Guillermo Garcia Lopez: +0.4±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +1.3 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Guillermo Garcia Lopez serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowGuillermo winsv MartonMatchupOptimal
Wide35%73%74%74.5%±7.148% ▲
Body16%69%56%61.8%±11.72% ▼
T50%80%72%77.0%±7.250%

Optimal v Marton Fucsovics: +0.7±1.0 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +3.2 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowGuillermo winsv MartonMatchupOptimal
Wide48%75%69%71.4%±7.548%
Body19%62%56%54.9%±12.36% ▼
T33%78%73%78.2%±7.346% ▲

Optimal v Marton Fucsovics: +1.2±1.0 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix. Serving T every time would read +7.7 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Return plan

Value of each return, in points per 100 returns against an average return of the same serve (direction, court, surface): the tour's result with that return, the returner's own edge with it, and what this server gives up when it comes back to that side. Returns with no charted direction are left out, so values compare with each other rather than with zero. Depth isn't a choice here: missed returns have no depth. Serve quality isn't charted, so a block through the middle partly reflects the serve that forced it.

Marton Fucsovics returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv GuillermoValue
FH through the middle50%+4.3+0.8−1.6+3.5±2.5
FH down the line18%+1.7−1.8−2.2−2.3±4.2
FH slice through the middle14%−4.2−0.8±0.0−5.0±1.5
FH crosscourt11%+5.5−2.1+1.8+5.2±4.2
FH slice down the line5%−4.3−2.4±0.0−6.7±2.3

Lean FH crosscourt: +4.5±4.0 per 100 returns v the current mix (913 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv GuillermoValue
BH through the middle38%+6.4+2.0−1.9+6.5±2.4
BH crosscourt22%+8.8+1.8−1.1+9.5±3.3
BH slice through the middle19%−4.2−1.9+0.3−5.8±2.0
BH slice crosscourt8%+0.5−1.2+0.9+0.3±2.7
BH down the line7%+4.2+1.9+0.1+6.3±4.6

Lean BH crosscourt: +6.0±2.7 per 100 returns v the current mix (925 returns charted)

2nd serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv GuillermoValue
FH through the middle60%−3.5+0.5−0.7−3.6±2.8
FH down the line21%−1.8+2.2−0.9−0.5±4.7
FH crosscourt18%−0.2−0.7−0.8−1.7±4.3

Lean FH down the line: +2.1±4.1 per 100 returns v the current mix (197 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv GuillermoValue
BH through the middle43%−2.9+0.4+0.2−2.2±2.3
BH crosscourt35%+1.0+0.7−0.7+1.1±3.0
BH down the line11%−0.2−0.4+1.7+1.0±5.0
FH through the middle4%−2.9+0.9−0.7−2.6±2.4
FH inside-in3%+0.6−0.4−0.8−0.7±4.0

Lean BH crosscourt: +1.9±2.2 per 100 returns v the current mix (602 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Guillermo Garcia Lopez returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MartonValue
FH through the middle47%+4.3+1.2+0.1+5.5±2.6
FH crosscourt19%+5.5−1.5+2.3+6.4±4.0
FH down the line16%+1.7−0.5−3.3−2.1±4.1
FH slice through the middle12%−4.2+0.2+1.1−3.0±2.1
FH slice crosscourt7%−4.3+0.5−1.4−5.2±2.4

Lean FH crosscourt: +3.6±3.6 per 100 returns v the current mix (116 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MartonValue
BH slice through the middle28%−4.2+2.0−1.5−3.7±2.3
BH through the middle26%+6.4+0.4+0.3+7.0±2.4
BH crosscourt14%+8.8−1.3+0.4+7.9±3.0
BH down the line12%+4.2−0.5−2.8+0.9±4.3
BH slice crosscourt11%+0.5+0.9−1.6−0.1±2.7

Lean BH crosscourt: +6.6±2.8 per 100 returns v the current mix (167 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MartonValue
BH crosscourt36%+1.0+0.1−1.6−0.5±2.7
BH through the middle29%−2.9+0.3+1.2−1.3±2.1
FH through the middle10%−2.9−0.8−0.2−3.9±1.9
BH down the line7%−0.2+0.3+1.6+1.6±4.1
BH slice crosscourt7%−4.0−0.4−0.6−5.0±2.2

Lean BH crosscourt: +1.4±1.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (110 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Rally plan

Edge, in points per 100 shots: the hitter's skill with the shot (own) plus how much the receiver usually gives up against it (theirs), both measured against the tour average.

Marton Fucsovics

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their backhand · return +1+2.5±3.2−0.9+3.4
FH to their forehand · rally+1.6±2.6+0.9+0.7
BH to their forehand · return+1.5±4.3+0.2+1.2
BH to the middle · return+0.8±2.0+1.8−1.0
BH to their backhand · rally+0.7±2.0+0.2+0.5
FH to the middle · rally+0.5±2.0+0.9−0.4

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their forehand · rally−4.9±3.5−4.4−0.6
FH to their backhand · return−3.9±3.7−1.6−2.4
FH to their backhand · rally−2.5±2.2−2.1−0.4
FH to their backhand · return +1−1.6±3.7+0.3−1.9
FH to their forehand · serve +1−1.1±3.3+0.4−1.5

Guillermo Garcia Lopez

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · serve +1+5.0±3.4+5.5−0.5
FH to their backhand · return +1+2.5±3.6+3.5−1.0
BH to their backhand · rally+2.0±2.0+2.4−0.4
FH to the middle · rally+1.8±2.0+1.0+0.8
BH to the middle · return+1.8±2.1+1.1+0.7
BH slice to the middle · return+1.0±2.3+1.9−0.9

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH slice to their backhand · rally−3.0±2.1−0.6−2.4
BH to their backhand · return−2.4±2.8−1.2−1.2
BH to their forehand · rally−1.2±3.7+2.0−3.2
FH to their backhand · rally−0.3±2.2+2.6−2.9
FH to their backhand · serve +1−0.1±2.9+1.1−1.2

Against Guillermo Garcia Lopez-like opponents

Marton Fucsovics vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–60.3%38.2%
Players most similar to Guillermo Garcia Lopez2 70.0%49.1%

Similar by tactical fingerprint: Learner Tien, Lorenzo Musetti, Gael Monfils, Jack Draper, David Goffin, Andy Murray, Juan Martin Del Potro, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Marcos Baghdatis. When two players have rarely met, their records against these lookalikes fill the gap.