Jaume Munar vs Sebastian Ofner Prediction & Betting Tips - ATP Mallorca Open

Prediction published on 23/06/2024, 19:13  by Steve Ashfield | Modified on 30/06/2024 at 14:24 in Tennis Predictions

Two unseeded players face each other in the first round of the Mallorca Open. Sebastian Ofner is up against Jaume Munar in this grass court tournament. In the second round, the winner of this match will take on either fifth seed Luciano Darderi or unseeded Pedro Martinez. Sebastian Ofner is 54th in the live rankings and most recently lost in the first round of the Halle Open. He was beaten in three sets by Zhizhen Zhang, two of the sets going to a tie-break. That first round defeat followed another first round defeat by eventual champion Jack Draper in Stuttgart. That match saw both sets go to a tie-break. On grass, Ofner has reached the third round at Wimbledon but that was seven years ago and he hasn't won a main draw match there since.

Jaume Munar won his only ATP Tour match against Ofner. That was played on clay this year with Munar only losing four games. There had also been two matches on lower tours and both won by Munar, again on clay. It'll be a lot more difficult for the Spaniard to get a win over Ofner on grass. Munar is 63rd in the live rankings and this is his first grass court tournament of 2024. Grass isn't a surface on which he has had a great deal of success. In fact, he's never won more than one match on grass in a calendar year. Overall, he's only won two out of 13 matches played on grass, though they were both at Wimbledon in 2022 and 2023. We tip Ofner to win this match.