Aljaz Bedene and Jozef Kovalik will play each other in the qualifications of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 2 pm on Court 2. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aljaz Bedene who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aljaz Bedene is the pick to win this match.
Aljaz Bedene -> 1.533
Jozef Kovalik -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Aljaz Bedene vs. Jozef Kovalik
This will be the 3rd time that Aljaz Bedene and Jozef Kovalik square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Bedene (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
Aljaz Bedene
Ranked no. 53, the Slovenian will start his run in Rome after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 6-3 3-6 6-1 4-6 6-1 to in the 1st round the 1st of September.
Aljaz has a 10-8 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Aljaz has an overall 414-223 record. He has positive 256-106 record on clay.
Last year in Rome
Bedene had to surrender in the qualifications to Dusan Lajovic.
Jozef Kovalik
Ranked no. 123, Kovalik got to the qualifications after beating Evgeny Donskoy 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, Jozef had a good straight sets win against Donskoy (7-5 6-4). During the match Kovalik scored 80 points vs Donskoy’s 66. Kovalik was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovalik scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Jozef Kovalik was pretty effective on serve to win 90% (26/29) of his 1st serve and 56% (15/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Slovakian broke Donskoy 3 times after converting 21% of his break points (3/14).
Kovalik has a 10-9 win-loss record in 2020, 8-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Jozef lost in the 3rd round to Stefano Napolitano.
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