Ernests Gulbis and Andrew Paulson will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Prague Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10.30 am on Court 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ernests Gulbis who should win in 2 sets.
Ernests Gulbis -> 1.28
Andrew Paulson -> 3.50
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Ernests Gulbis
Ranked no. 162,he will start his run in the Prague Challenger after he played his last match in 1 where he defeated 6-2 6-4 to Safwat in the Rubber 4 the 7th of March.
Ernests has a 17-4 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Ernests’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Pau Challenger.
The Latvian won his last 8 matches.
Talking about his overall career, Gulbis has an overall 438-339 record. He has positive 131-111 record on clay.
Last year in the Prague Challenger
The Latvian didn’t compete in the Prague Challenger in 2019.
Andrew Paulson
Ranked no. 822, Paulson reached the 2nd round after beating Filip Horansky 6-3 2-6 6-3.
In the 1st round, Andrew defeated Horansky (6-3 2-6 6-3). During the match Paulson scored 85 points vs Horansky’s 73. Andrew was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Paulson struck 3 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Andrew Paulson lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Paulson put 48% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (24/40) on the 2nd serve. Paulson broke Horansky 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Paulson has a solid record in the last 3 years having won 60% of his matches (9-6). 1-0 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Paulson has a 16-13 win-loss record in the last 3 years on clay.
The Czech has a 1-3 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Prague Challenger
The Czech 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