Mate Valkusz and Andrew Paulson will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Skopje Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mate Valkusz who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mate Valkusz is the pick to win this match.
Mate Valkusz -> 1.163
Andrew Paulson -> 4.7
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Prediction and head to head Mate Valkusz vs. Andrew Paulson
There is no head to head record between Mate Valkusz and Andrew Paulson since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Mate Valkusz
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 6-8 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 33-24 | 5-2 | 23-14 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
2022 | 33-14 | 5-5 | 27-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 31-9 | 4-2 | 27-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 283, Valkusz got to the 1st round after beating Berk Bugarikj 6-4 6-1 and Mathias Bourgue 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Mate had a good straight sets win against Bourgue (6-2 6-0). During the match, Valkusz scored 59 points vs Bourgue’s 33. The Hungarian was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Valkusz wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Mate Valkusz conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Valkusz put 65% of his first serves in, winning 68% (21/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the 2nd serve. The Hungarian broke Bourgue 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Valkusz started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 60% of the points he played.
Valkusz has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 69% of his matches (186-82). 13-8 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Valkusz has a composed146-50 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
Valkusz’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Ostrava Challenger.
The Hungarian has an aggregate 18-12 win-loss record in 2023, 13-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Skopje Challenger
The Hungarian has never competed in this tournament before.
Andrew Paulson
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 37-22 | 1-3 | 31-13 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
2022 | 53-27 | 6-3 | 30-15 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
2021 | 47-26 | 19-8 | 11-11 | 15-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
2020 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 409, the Czech will start his run in the Skopje Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Prague where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Oliveira in the quarter on the 19th of May.
Paulson has an aggregate 4-7 win-loss record in 2023, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Andrew has an overall 122-76 record. He has a positive 51-38 record on clay.
Head 2 Head
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