20.10.2024 | 
The final of the ATP Antwerp will see two players born 12 years apart. Roberto Bautista Agut leads in the head-to-head matches against Jiri Lehecka, but the younger one is the favorite to win this one. Who will win the battle between the youth and the experience?
Roberto Bautista Agut and Jiri Lehecka meet on 20.10.2024, in the final of the ATP Antwerp. The game takes place at Centre Court in Antwerp, Sweden on Sunday morning.
| Roberto Bautista Agut | Sunday, 20.10.2024, 10:38 | Jiri Lehecka |
| 1 | x | 2 |
| 2,98 | / | 1,41 |
Roberto Bautista Agut – Jiri Lehecka: Initial situation
Roberto Bautista Agut and Jiri Lehecka are in a completely different point of their career. The Spaniard has been phenomenal all week, but Jiri Lehecka looks like the better one at the moment.
Roberto Bautista Agut Stats & Form
Former world No. 9 Roberto Bautista Agut is currently 60th in the rankings, which is pretty solid since he is past his prime of being 36 years old. The Spaniard is 35-26 for the season and 5-2 in indoor matches this year. He made it to the final by losing only one set in the previous four matches this week. Bautista Agut is coming off a 6-3, 6-4 win over Hugo Gaston in the semifinal. Earlier in the tournament, he defeated Felix Auger Aliassime in the decisive tiebreak, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6, Tomas Martin Etcheverry, and Luca van Assche. This is his first final of the season. His best results in 2024 before this week were the quarterfinals in Hong Kong, Bordeaux, and Mallorca. At the Grand Slams this season, his best result was reaching the round of 16 at Wimbledon where he lost to Tommy Paul. This is his sixth appearance in Antwerp and first final, after three consecutive quarterfinals from 2017 to 2019, the semifinal in 2022, and a first-round loss last year. Bautista Agut has won 11 titles in this career, and the last one was in Kitzbühel in 2022.
Jiri Lehecka Stats & Form
Jiri Lehecka is currently 33rd in the ATP rankings, ten spots lower than his career high. The player from the Czech Republic is 28-15 for the season and 5-2 in indoor matches this year. Lehecka is coming off a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 semifinal win over Marcos Giron. Earlier this week, in his first appearance in Antwerp, he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas, Daniel Altmeier, and Jaume Munar. The 22-year-old won the title in Adelaide at the beginning of the season, defeating Jack Draper in the final. That was the first ATP title in his career after winning six lower-level tournaments. Among other remarkable results, Lehecka reached the semifinals in Madrid and the quarterfinals in Indian Wells and Beijing. On the Grand Slams, he reached the third round at the US Open.
Roberto Bautista Agut – Jiri Lehecka: Head to Head
Roberto Bautista Agut leads the head-to-head series 3-1 against Jiri Lehecka. The only win for Lehecka came in their last match, a couple of weeks ago in the round of 16 in Beijing when the score was 3-6, 6-2, 6-1. The Spaniard won 7-6, 6-4 in the Davis Cup this year, 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the 2023 Paris Masters and the score was 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 in the quarterfinal of the 2022 ATP Kitzbühel.
Roberto Bautista Agut – Jiri Lehecka: Odds
Jiri Lehecka favorite to win this match with 1,41 odds in his favor while the odds for Roberto Bautista Agut’s win are at 2,98. The total game line is set at 22.5 with 1,90 for over and 1,94 for under.
Top 3 Betting Odds
| Roberto Bautista Agut – Jiri Lehecka Betting Tip | Odds |
| Jiri Lehecka -3.5 | 2,03 |
| Under 2.5 sets | 1,58 |
| Under 21.5 games | 2,25 |
Betting tip and prediction: Roberto Bautista Agut – Jiri Lehecka (20.10.2024)
Roberto Bautista Agut is one of the oldest players in the top 100, and based on what we saw from him this week in Antwerp, he has a lot of great tennis left in the tank. He was pushed to the limit in the quarterfinals against Felix Auger-Aliassime and won the deceiving tiebreak 8-6. After the semifinal win over Hugo Gaston, he reached his first final since the last tournament last year when he lost to Fabio Fognini at the Valencie Challenger. Now, Bautista Agut is heading to the final to face Jiri Lehecka for the second time this season. Lehecka won the first match last month in Beijing, which was his first win against the Spaniard, who won the previous three. Lehecka had a great start to the season, winning his first ATP title in the opening week of the season. Just when we thought he may be the next young star on the tour, he suffered a couple of injuries that were a major step back for him. Lehecka is the one who defeated Rafael Nadal in his last match in Madrid and almost made it to the final in the Spanish capital, but got hurt in the semifinal against Auger-Aliassime. Now Lehecka is back in full shape and showed that in a straight-set win against Stefanos Tsitsipas. Things will not go easy against Bautista-Agut since he is a great fighter, but at the end, Lehecka will cover the -3.5-game handicap.