Carlos Taberner and Kacper Zuk will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Iasi Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11 am on Court 2. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Taberner who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Carlos Taberner is the pick to win this match.
Carlos Taberner -> 1.68
Kacper Zuk -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Carlos Taberner vs. Kacper Zuk
There is no head to head record between Carlos Taberner and Kacper Zuk since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Carlos Taberner
Ranked no. 189, Taberner reached the 2nd round after defeating Nicola Kuhn 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Spaniard had a good straight sets win against Kuhn (6-3 6-2). During the match Taberner scored 58 points vs Kuhn’s 35. The Spaniard was exceptionally aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Taberner couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Carlos Taberner was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (22/31) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Taberner broke Kuhn 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Taberner has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 66% of his matches (248-128). 7-5 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Taberner has a 218-102 record in the last 6 years on clay.
Taberner has a 7-7 win-loss record in 2020, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Iasi Challenger
Carlos didn’t play in the Iasi Challenger in 2019.
Kacper Zuk
Ranked no. 285 (career high), Kacper reached the 2nd round after defeating Rafael Matos 6-3 6-3, Maxime Hamou 7-60 4-6 7-60 and Nicholas David Ionel 6-2 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Pole had a good straight sets win against David Ionel (6-2 6-0). During the match Zuk scored 61 points vs David Ionel’s 34. The Pole was extremely aggressive to blast 14 winners.
Talking about serving, Zuk struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Kacper Zuk was exceptionally efficent on serve to win 93% (14/15) of his 1st serve and 71% (15/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Pole broke David Ionel 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
The Pole’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Barnstaple and M25 Poznan.
Zuk has a 20-6 win-loss record in 2020, 9-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Iasi Challenger
Kacper didn’t compete in the Iasi Challenger in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Taberner | Zuk |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 68 |
| Pts | 58-35 | 243-179 |
| Total Points | 93 | 422 |
| Winners | 22 | 81 |
| %Winners | 38% | 33% |
Taberner played 1 match while Zuk competed in 3 matches. Zuk started his run from the qualifications while Taberner had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kacper Zuk lost 1 set while Carlos Taberner hasn’t dropped a set so far. Taberner has played 5 set(s) less than Zuk (2 vs 7). Therefore, Taberner played 51 games less than Zuk. Carlos scored 22 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Kacper blasted 81 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Taberner | Zuk |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 6.3 |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 96/184 |
| %1st in | 62% | 52% |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 81/96 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 60/88 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 68% |
Taberner didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Zuk fired 19 aces (6.3 per match). Taberner won 71% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Zuk won 84% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Taberner | Zuk |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 9 |
| Converted | 5/8 | 9/26 |
| % Converted | 63% | 35% |
| Conceded | 4 | 7 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 50% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Spaniard broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Carlos lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Zuk broke his opponents 9 times with a 35% conversion rate. Zuk conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Taberner | |||
| R1 Kuhn |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 58-35 | 58-35 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 31/50 | 31/50 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Zuk | |||||
| Q1 Matos |
Q3 Hamou |
R1 David |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | 7-60 4-6 7-60 | 6-2 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 36 | 14 | 68 | |
| pts | 66-43 | 116-102 | 61-34 | 243-179 | |
| Total points | 109 | 218 | 95 | 422 | |
| Winners | 15 | 52 | 14 | 81 | |
| %Winners | 23% | 45% | 23% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 13 | 4 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 20/45 | 61/103 | 15/36 | 96/184 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 59% | 42% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 15/20 | 52/61 | 14/15 | 81/96 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 85% | 93% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/25 | 23/42 | 15/21 | 60/88 | |
| % 2nd pts | 88% | 55% | 71% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | |
| Converted | 3/7 | 1/9 | 5/10 | 9/26 | |
| Converted % | 43% | 11% | 50% | 35% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 4/6 | 0/0 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 67% | – | 167% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
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