Steven Diez and Aslan Karatsev will face off in the 2nd round of the Prague II Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1.30 pm on Court 7. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Steven Diez
Ranked no. 165, the Canadian will start his run in the Prague II Challenger after he played his last match in the Prague Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-3 to in the 2nd round the 18th of August.
The Canadian has a 2-8 win-loss record in 2020, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Diez has an overall 453-318 record. He has positive 273-180 record on clay.
Last year in the Prague II Challenger
Steven didn’t compete in the Prague II Challenger in 2019.
Aslan Karatsev
Ranked no. 194, Aslan got to the 2nd round after defeating Enzo Couacaud 3-6 7-5 7-5.
In the 1st round against Couacaud, Aslan recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 7-5). During the match Karatsev scored 109 points vs Couacaud’s 104. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Karatsev scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Aslan Karatsev lost the serve 4 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Karatsev put 55% of his first serves in, winning 68% (38/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (25/45) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Couacaud 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Karatsev has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (595-425). 6-1 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Karatsev has a 298-204 record in the last 9 years on clay.
Karatsev’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Bangkok Challenger and the Prague Challenger.
Aslan has a 16-6 win-loss record in 2020, 6-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Prague II Challenger
Karatsev didn’t play in the Prague II Challenger in 2019.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Prague II Challenger
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Elias YmerYmer (6-2 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Oscar OtteOtte (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (1-6 7-67 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Martin KlizanKlizan (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (2-6 7-64 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Goncalo OliveiraOliveira (0-0) – See H2H details
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Petr NouzaNouza (0-1) – See H2H details
- Robin HaaseHaase – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ruben BemelmansBemelmans – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (0-2) – See H2H details
- Yannick MadenMaden – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (0-0) – See H2H details
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-1) – See H2H details
- Steven DiezDiez – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (2-0) – See H2H details
- Filip HoranskyHoransky – Lukas RosolRosol (1-1) – See H2H details
- Vaclav SafranekSafranek – Jan SatralSatral (2-6) – See H2H details
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Daniel MasurMasur (0-0) – See H2H details
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Hyeon ChungChung (0-0) – See H2H details
- Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor – Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marek GengelGengel – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (0-0) – See H2H details