Carlos Alcaraz vs. Jiri Lehecka -to-head, tournament so far

New off securing his 250th victory on the ATP Tour, Carlos Alcaraz faces in-sort first-time ATP 500 finalist Jiri Lehecka in Sunday’s Queen’s Club Championships title match.

After going by expected considerations acclimatising to the grass after an extended clay season, Alcaraz has played dominantly within the closing two rounds, defeating Arthur Rinderknech and Roberto Bautista Agut; one more steady efficiency would maybe be essential to outlast Lehecka, who overcame home current Jack Draper in a thrilling three-setter on Andy Murray Enviornment.

Match preview

The stay seed on the Queen’s Club would maybe maybe well also have struggled within the predominant two rounds against Adam Walton and Jaume Munar — his match against Munar lasted three hours and 23 minutes — nevertheless the 22-one year-identical outdated has improved his tennis within the closing eight and the semi-final.

Having confronted two ruin aspects in his tournament-opening victory over Walton and a staggering 12 within the drawn-out all-Spanish 2d spherical, the No. 1 seed in West London has given minute away in wins over Rinderknech and Bautista Agut, conceding zero ruin aspects against the identical outdated and one within the all-Spanish semi-final.

The stay result of those wins plan Alcaraz has surged into his 2d title match on the Queen’s Club in his third look in West London, where he claimed the title two years ago with a pleased salvage over Alex de Minaur.

Alcaraz, whose 250th salvage got right here faster than all nevertheless two players within the Initiate Period — John McEnroe and Rafael Nadal — seeks a 251st to clinch his fifth title of 2025 and the twenty first title of his occupation.

To accomplish that, the Spanish sensation must defeat a participant who’s amongst the 5 to beat him in 2025 — Novak Djokovic (Australian Initiate), Lehecka (Doha), David Goffin (Miami) and Holger Rune (Barcelona) — nevertheless the No. 1 seed in London enters Sunday’s Queen’s final fresh from securing a 17th consecutive victory.

Lehecka objectives to succeed where many on the tour have failed since Rune disturbed Alcaraz on home soil in April, without reference to the Czech participant’s performances on grass this season providing encouragement.

Whereas the enviornment No. 30’s poke of no longer losing a map this week became ended by Draper, who engineered six ruin aspects, the 23-one year-identical outdated responded by taking half in tight tennis within the deciding map to seal a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory in two hours and seven minutes.

New off securing his a hundredth salvage on the tour over one Brit — Jacob Fearnley — Lehecka recorded his a hundred and first against one more, upsetting the enviornment No. 6 for a third high-10 victory of 2025 after wins over Grigor Dimitrov in Brisbane and Alcaraz in Doha.

The Czech man has now emulated countryman Tomas Berdych (Wimbledon, 2010) as the closing participant from Czechia to succeed in a grass-court docket title match, and the 23-one year-identical outdated hopes to strive against off imaginable nerves as he competes for a third occupation crown and his first at ATP 500 stage.

That requires the enviornment No. 30 to beat the tour’s in-sort participant on a 17-match successful sprint, a identical outdated Queen’s champion and Wimbledon current, a essential scenario that the mammoth-serving Lehecka objectives to beat.

Tournament so far

Carlos Alcaraz:

First spherical: vs. Adam Walton 6-4 7-6[4] 

Second spherical: vs. Jaume Munar 6-4 6-7[7] 7-5 

Quarter-final: vs. Arthur Rinderknech 7-5 6-4

Semi-final: vs. Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4 6-4

Jiri Lehecka: 

First spherical: vs. Alex De Minaur 6-4 6-2 

Second spherical: vs. Gabriel Diallo 6-4 6-2

Quarter-final: vs. Jacob Fearnley 7-5 6-2

Semi-final: vs. Jack Draper 6-4 4-6 7-5

Head To Head

Doha (2025) – Quarter-final: Lehecka 6-3 3-6 6-4

Queen’s (2023) – Second spherical: Alcaraz 6-2 6-3

Alcaraz and Lehecka have carve up their two meetings on the ATP Tour, and Sunday’s victor will hold a 2-1 lead in their head-to-head.    

The Czech man claimed their outdated assembly in Doha earlier this one year, securing a three-map victory for his 2d high-10 victory of 2025; the enviornment No. 30 secured his third in Saturday’s salvage over Draper.    

On the opposite hand, Lehecka enters the title match in West London attentive to their first assembly, which took build at this event two years ago; Alcaraz took that stumble upon in straight units en route to his debut success on the tournament.    

With the exception of the NextGen Finals, Alcaraz holds a 20-6 account in title matches, tremendously superior to Lehecka’s 2-2 account forward of the deciding contest in Queen’s.

We relate: Lehecka to salvage in three units

This prediction would maybe maybe well be unpopular, given Alcaraz’s successful sprint and his standing as the strongest participant on grass within the past two years.

Sunday’s final result will depend upon how successfully Lehecka manages any nerves from taking half in in his best seemingly occupation final and how he serves; we’re backing the Czech megastar to upset the tip seed in West London, ending the Spaniard’s 17-match successful poke to collect his first ATP 500 crown at Queen’s.  

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