Martin Klizan and Roberto Marcora will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Istanbul Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Martin Klizan who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Martin Klizan is the pick to win this match.
Martin Klizan -> 1.79
Roberto Marcora -> 1.98

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There is no head to head record between Martin Klizan and Roberto Marcora since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Martin Klizan

Ranked no. 168, the Slovakian reached the 2^nd round after beating Illya Marchenko 7-6⁶ 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Martin had a good straight sets win against Marchenko (7-6⁶ 6-3). During the match Klizan scored 73 points vs Marchenko’s 65. Klizan was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about the service games, Klizan scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Martin Klizan was very efficent on serve to win 74% (28/38) of his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Klizan was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Marchenko twice.

Klizan has a favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (295-215). 3-3 on hard in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Klizan has a 43-59 match record in the last years on hard.

Klizan has a 9-10 win-loss record in 2020, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Istanbul Challenger

Klizan didn’t compete in the Istanbul Challenger in 2019.

Roberto Marcora

Ranked no. 179, Roberto reached the 2^nd round after beating Mohamed Safwat 7-6⁶ 6-0.

In the 1^st round, Marcora had a good straight sets win against Safwat (7-6⁶ 6-0). During the match Marcora scored 74 points vs Safwat’s 56. Roberto was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Marcora struck 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Roberto Marcora was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 63% (22/35) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marcora broke Safwat 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Marcora’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Cherbourg Challenger.

Roberto has a 20-12 win-loss record in 2020, 11-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Istanbul Challenger

Marcora lost in the 3^rd round to Denis Istomin.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Klizan and Marcora played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Klizan and Marcora have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Klizan played 3 games more than Marcora. Klizan scored 28 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian blasted 25 winners (34%).

Serve Performance

Klizan bagged 1 ace . Marcora also fired 2 aces . Klizan won 74% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Marcora won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.

How they played the important points

Martin broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Martin conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Marcora broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Roberto was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Head 2 Head

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Martin
Klizan

1:0

Roberto
Marcora

Rank

358

High

24

1Hard0

Rank

819

High

150

Win Loss

Klizan

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Marcora

2024 2023 2022

42 - 10

0 - 0

11-2

Hard

0-0

2-1

I Hard

0-0

29-7

Clay

0-0

Tennis Scores in Istanbul Challenger

• Jason JungJung – Tristan LamasineLamasine (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benjamin BonziBonzi – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Borna GojoGojo – Jay ClarkeClarke (6-7⁵ 7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sebastian OfnerOfner – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (4-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

• Jason JungJung – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Martin KlizanKlizan – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Dmitry PopkoPopko – Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Cem IlkelIlkel (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Borna GojoGojo – Sebastian OfnerOfner (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Klizan

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Marcora