Steven Diez and Michael Vrbensky will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Prague Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10.30 am on Court 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Michael Vrbensky who should win in 3 sets.
Michael Vrbensky -> 1.83
Steven Diez -> 1.83
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Steven Diez
Ranked no. 165, Diez will start his run in the Prague Challenger after he played his last match in All Lower Level Tournaments where he lost 3-6 6-2 6-3 to Garcia-Lopez in the 1st round the 1st of August.
Steven has a 2-7 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Diez has an overall 453-317 record. He has positive 273-179 record on clay.
Last year in the Prague Challenger
Diez didn’t play in the Prague Challenger in 2019.
Michael Vrbensky
Ranked no. 405, Vrbensky got to the 2nd round after defeating Daniel Masur 7-5 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Masur (7-5 7-5). During the match Vrbensky scored 94 points vs Masur’s 86. Vrbensky was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Vrbensky managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Michael Vrbensky lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Vrbensky put 48% of his first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (23/46) on the 2nd serve. Michael broke Masur 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Vrbensky has a solid record in the last 4 years having won 68% of his matches (182-87). 7-3 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Vrbensky has a 117-71 record in the last 4 years on clay.
The Czech’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya.
The Czech has a 10-7 win-loss record in 2020, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Prague Challenger
Michael didn’t compete in the Prague Challenger in 2019.
Tennis Scores in Prague Challenger
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (2-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas MachacMachac – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-0 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Sebastian OfnerOfner (7-67 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (4-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Blaz RolaRola (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-1 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Mats MoraingMoraing (6-1 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (5-7 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sumit NagalNagal – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-3 5-7 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oscar OtteOtte – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Oscar OtteOtte (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (0-0) – See H2H details
- Martin KlizanKlizan – Elias YmerYmer (0-0) – See H2H details
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Jan SatralSatral (0-0) – See H2H details
- Arthur De GreefDe Greef – Yannick MadenMaden (1-1) – See H2H details
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (0-0) – See H2H details
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Jiri VeselyVesely (1-0) – See H2H details
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (0-0) – See H2H details
- Michael VrbenskyVrbensky – Steven DiezDiez (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – See H2H details