Nikoloz Basilashvili and Jozef Kovalik will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Sardegna Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nikoloz Basilashvili who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nikoloz Basilashvili is the pick to win this match.
Nikoloz Basilashvili -> 1.88
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.96
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Prediction and head to head Nikoloz Basilashvili vs. Jozef Kovalik
This will be the 2nd time that Nikoloz Basilashvili and Jozef Kovalik face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Basilashvili (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Basilashvili won 1-6 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal in the Heilbronn Challenger back in 2016.
Nikoloz Basilashvili
Ranked no. 37, Nikoloz will start his run in Cagliari after he played his last match in Miami where he lost 6-3 4-6 6-4 to Ymer in the 2nd round on the 26th of March.
Basilashvili has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
His best result of the season was winning the title in in Doha where he defeated Roberto Bautista Agut in the final 7-6(5) 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, The Georgean has an overall 344-289 record. He has a positive 128-94 record on clay.
Previously in Cagliari
Basilashvili has never competed in this tournament before.
Jozef Kovalik
Ranked no. 128, the Slovakian got to the 2nd round after beating Malek Jaziri 6-3 6-1, Matteo Viola 7-63 4-6 7-64 and Sumit Nagal 3-6 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round against Nagal, Jozef recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 6-3). During the match Kovalik scored 91 points vs Nagal’s 77. Jozef was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovalik was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Jozef Kovalik lost the serve 3 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Kovalik put 65% of his first serves in, winning 69% (38/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Nagal 5 times after converting 28% of his break points (5/18).
The Slovakian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Istanbul Challenger.
Jozef has a 11-8 win-loss record in 2021, 8-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- John MillmanMillman – Federico CoriaCoria (7-65 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Dennis NovakNovak (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Sumit NagalNagal (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Liam BroadyBroady – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinMartin – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Joao SousaSousa (1-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Guido PellaPella (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Aljaz BedeneBedene – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (1-6 7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Tommy PaulPaul (7-68 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Federico GaioGaio (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Dennis NovakNovak (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Sumit NagalNagal (3-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (1-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinMartin – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-4 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gilles SimonSimon – Lorenzo SonegoSonego (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrej MartinMartin – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel EvansEvans – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Liam BroadyBroady – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Aljaz BedeneBedene (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – John MillmanMillman (0-1) – H2H and prediction
