Pablo Andujar and Jozef Kovalik will play each other in the 1st round of the Forte Village Sardegna Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 4 pm on Forte Village Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Pablo Andujar who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Pablo Andujar is the pick to win this match.
Pablo Andujar -> 1.55
Jozef Kovalik -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Pablo Andujar vs. Jozef Kovalik
This will be the 2nd time that Pablo Andujar and Jozef Kovalik square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Andujar (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
Pablo Andujar
Ranked no. 51, Andujar will start his run in Sardinia after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-3 6-4 6-4 to Travaglia in the 1st round the 27th of September.
The Spaniard has a 11-12 win-loss record in 2020, 9-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Andujar’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Prostejov Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Pablo has an overall 469-400 record. He has positive 416-265 record on clay.
Last year in Sardinia
Pablo didn’t compete in Sardinia in 2019.
Jozef Kovalik
Ranked no. 124, Jozef got to the 1st round after beating Matteo Gigante 6-4 6-0 and Andrea Arnaboldi 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Jozef had a good straight sets win against Arnaboldi (6-2 6-4). During the match Kovalik scored 64 points vs Arnaboldi’s 50. The Slovakian was quite aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovalik scored 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Jozef Kovalik conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 2 break points. Furthermore, Kovalik put 64% of his first serves in, winning 85% (33/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (9/22) on the 2nd serve. Jozef broke Arnaboldi 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Slovakian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Jozef has a 15-12 win-loss record in 2020, 13-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Sardinia
Jozef didn’t compete in Sardinia in 2019.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Sardinia
- Federico CoriaCoria – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Danilo PetrovicPetrovic (7-65 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Sumit NagalNagal – Andrej MartinMartin (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Federico DelbonisDelbonis (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo CuevasCuevas – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrej MartinMartin – Tommy PaulPaul (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gianluca MagerMager – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Federico CoriaCoria (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – Sumit NagalNagal (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Corentin MoutetMoutet – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-0) – H2H and prediction