Jozef Kovalik and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Prostejov Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3 pm on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jozef Kovalik who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.78
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
This will be the 2nd time that Jozef Kovalik and Cedrik-Marcel Stebe square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kovalik (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
Jozef Kovalik
Ranked no. 123, Jozef reached the 2nd round after beating Hyeon Chung 7-65 6-2.
In the 1st round, Kovalik had a good straight sets win against Chung (7-65 6-2). During the match Kovalik scored 75 points vs Chung’s 58. Jozef was very aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kovalik scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 4 double faults. Jozef Kovalik lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kovalik put 35% of his first serves in, winning 75% (18/24) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (19/45) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Chung 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Kovalik has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (363-242). 6-5 on clay in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kovalik has a 268-150 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Jozef has a 8-8 win-loss record in 2020, 6-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Prostejov Challenger
Jozef lost in the 3rd round to Federico Gaio.
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe
Ranked no. 131, Stebe reached the 2nd round after beating Evgeny Donskoy 5-7 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round against Donskoy, Stebe recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-2 6-2). During the match Stebe scored 102 points vs Donskoy’s 79. The German was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Stebe made 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Cedrik-Marcel Stebe lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Stebe put 66% of his first serves in, winning 70% (38/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (13/28) on the 2nd serve. Stebe broke Donskoy 7 times after converting 41% of his break points (7/17).
The German’s best result of the year was getting to the semi-finals in the Noumea Challenger.
The German has a 11-7 win-loss record in 2020, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Prostejov Challenger
Stebe didn’t compete in the Prostejov Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovalik | Stebe |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 28 |
| Pts | 75-58 | 102-79 |
| Total Points | 133 | 181 |
| Winners | 18 | 38 |
| %Winners | 24% | 37% |
Both Kovalik and Stebe played 1 match. At the moment, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe dropped 1 set while Jozef Kovalik hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kovalik has played 1 set(s) less than Stebe (2 vs 3). Therefore, Kovalik played 7 games less than Stebe. Kovalik scored 18 winners (24% of the total points). On the other side, Cedrik-Marcel managed to score 38 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovalik | Stebe |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 24/69 | 54/82 |
| %1st in | 35% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 38/54 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 19/45 | 13/28 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 46% |
Kovalik blasted 1 ace . Stebe also managed to score 5 aces . Kovalik won 75% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Stebe won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovalik | Stebe |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 7 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 7/17 |
| % Converted | 56% | 41% |
| Conceded | 7 | 8 |
| Saved | 4 | 4 |
| % Saved | 57% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 4 |
Jozef broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Kovalik conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Stebe broke his opponent 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. Stebe conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kovalik | |||
| R1 Chung |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 75-58 | 75-58 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 24% | 24% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 24/69 | 24/69 | |
| % 1st in | 35% | 35% | |
| 1st pts | 18/24 | 18/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/45 | 19/45 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Stebe | |||
| R1 Donskoy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 102-79 | 102-79 | |
| Total points | 181 | 181 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 54/82 | 54/82 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 38/54 | 38/54 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/28 | 13/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/17 | 7/17 | |
| Converted % | 41% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 4/8 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Prostejov Challenger
- Pablo AndujarAndujar – Zdenek KolarKolar (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Yannick MadenMaden (3-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Hyeon ChungChung (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (3-6 6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Taro DanielDaniel – Facundo BagnisBagnis (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Filip HoranskyHoransky – Lukas RosolRosol (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Steven DiezDiez (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Martin KlizanKlizan – Alex BoltBolt (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (5-7 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (7-65 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (2-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
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- Pablo AndujarAndujar – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martin KlizanKlizan – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Filip HoranskyHoransky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Marc PolmansPolmans (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
