Zdenek Kolar and Akira Santillan will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Split 1 Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zdenek Kolar who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zdenek Kolar is the pick to win this match.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.61
Akira Santillan -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Akira Santillan
This will be the 2nd time that Zdenek Kolar and Akira Santillan play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kolar (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kolar won 6-4 3-6 6-3 in the 1st round in the Vicenza Challenger back in 2018.
Zdenek Kolar
Ranked no. 223, Zdenek will start his run in the Split 1 Challenger after he won the title in the Oeiras 1 Challenger after beating 6-4 7-5 Elias in the final.
Zdenek has a 9-9 win-loss record in 2021, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Kolar’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Oeiras 1 Challenger.
The Czech won his last 5 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Zdenek has an overall 214-157 record. He has a positive 148-91 record on clay.
Previously in the Split 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Akira Santillan
Ranked no. 263, Akira reached the 1st round after defeating Tak Khunn Wang 4-6 6-1 7-63 and Miljan Zekic 2-6 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications against Zekic, Akira recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-3 6-4). During the match Santillan scored 88 points vs Zekic’s 83. Santillan was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Santillan scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Akira Santillan lost the serve 5 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Santillan put 57% of his first serves in, winning 63% (30/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (19/36) on the 2nd serve. Santillan broke Zekic 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Akira started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Australian has a 17-8 win-loss record in 2021, 9-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Elias YmerYmer – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Joao DominguesDomingues (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Mili PoljicakPoljicak (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Blaz RolaRola – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Sebastian OfnerOfner (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Lukas RosolRosol (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SousaSousa – Kacper ZukZuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mirza BasicBasic – Cem IlkelIlkel (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Blaz KavcicKavcic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Filip HoranskyHoransky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Akira SantillanSantillan – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Dustin BrownBrown (0-0) – H2H and prediction
