Matej Dodig and Rudolf Molleker will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Hamburg Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matej Dodig who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matej Dodig is the pick to win this match.
Matej Dodig -> 1.56
Rudolf Molleker -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Matej Dodig vs. Rudolf Molleker
There is no head to head record between Matej Dodig and Rudolf Molleker since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Matej Dodig
21 - 17win/loss
174
171
LLWWWWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31-20 | 0-4 | 25-11 | 5-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 36-32 | 0-0 | 24-22 | 12-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 46-26 | 14-5 | 30-20 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-16 | 1-2 | 38-12 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 257, the Croatian reached the 2nd round after defeating Denis Yevseyev 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Dodig had a good straight sets win against Yevseyev (6-3 6-1). During the match, Dodig scored 63 points vs Yevseyev’s 41. Matej was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Dodig recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Matej Dodig was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (19/26) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Dodig broke Yevseyev 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Dodig has a solid win-loss record in the last 4 years having won 62% of his matches (146-91). 15-9 on clay in 2026. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Dodig has a compiled107-63 match record in the last 4 years on clay.
The Croatian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Trieste Challenger.
Matej has a composed 21-17 win-loss record in 2026, 15-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hamburg Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2025. See his history.
Rudolf Molleker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 20-18 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 38-30 | 6-5 | 26-17 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-34 | 4-8 | 15-18 | 7-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 488, Rudolf reached the 2nd round after defeating Elmer Moller 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Rudolf had a good straight sets win against Moller (6-1 6-3). During the match Molleker scored 61 points vs Moller’s 39. Molleker was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Molleker recorded 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Rudolf Molleker was pretty efficient on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rudolf broke Moller 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
The German has an aggregate 18-17 win-loss record in 2026, 16-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hamburg Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Dodig | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 63-41 | 61-39 |
| Total Points | 104 | 100 |
| Winners | 19 | 26 |
| %Winners | 30% | 43% |
Both Dodig and Molleker played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Dodig and Molleker have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Matej scored 19 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The German recorded 26 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Dodig | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 7 |
| 1st in | 26/43 | 31/49 |
| %1st in | 60% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 19/26 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/18 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 61% |
Dodig blasted 5 aces . Molleker scored 7 aces . Dodig won 73% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Molleker won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Dodig | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 56% | 57% |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Croatian broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Matej dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Molleker broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Molleker was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Dodig | |||
| R1 Yevseyev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 63-41 | 63-41 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 26/43 | 26/43 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 19/26 | 19/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/17 | 11/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 65% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Molleker | |||
| R1 Moller |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-39 | 61-39 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/49 | 31/49 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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