Jozef Kovalik and Vitaliy Sachko will square off in the 1st round of the Bratislava 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Vitaliy Sachko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Vitaliy Sachko is the pick to win this match.
Vitaliy Sachko -> 1.66
Jozef Kovalik -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Vitaliy Sachko
There is no head to head record between Jozef Kovalik and Vitaliy Sachko since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Jozef Kovalik
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 34-23 | 3-5 | 30-15 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 23-34 | 1-3 | 21-28 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 33-23 | 3-6 | 29-13 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 31-27 | 0-1 | 26-20 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 17-16 | 2-3 | 15-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 144, Jozef will start his run in the Bratislava 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Heilbronn Challenger where he lost 6-2 3-6 6-3 to Santillan in the 2nd round on the 8th of June.
The Slovakian has a composed 9-18 win-loss record in 2023, 7-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Jozef has an overall 451-329 record. He has a positive 339-207 record on clay.
Previously in the Bratislava 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019 and 2022. See his history.
Vitaliy Sachko
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 17-23 | 3-4 | 14-17 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2023 | 47-32 | 4-3 | 28-16 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
2022 | 24-33 | 2-3 | 12-18 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 2-1 |
2021 | 42-28 | 0-2 | 24-17 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 7-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 266, the Ukrainian reached the 1st round after defeating Ignacio Monzon 6-0 6-1 and Milos Karol 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Karol (6-4 6-1). During the match Sachko scored 70 points vs Karol’s 45. Vitaliy was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Sachko bagged 6 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Vitaliy Sachko was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 77% (10/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sachko broke Karol 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sachko started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 63% of the points he played.
Vitaliy has an aggregate 28-16 win-loss record in 2023, 12-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Bratislava 1 Challenger
- Jakub MensikMensik – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Barrios VeraBarrios Vera – Lukas KleinKlein (1-6 7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Sumit NagalNagal (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Cem IlkelIlkel (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gerald MelzerMelzer – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex MolcanMolcan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kacper ZukZuk – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MichalskiMichalski – Federico CoriaCoria (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Norbert GombosGombos (0-0) – H2H and prediction