Alexei Popyrin

and Zdenek Kolar will play each other in the 2nd round of the Eckental Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. 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 Alexei Popyrin who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.8
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.97

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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Zdenek Kolar

There is no head to head record between Alexei Popyrin and Zdenek Kolar since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Alexei Popyrin

Ranked no. 110, Popyrin got to the 2nd round after defeating Brayden Schnur 6-1 6-4.

In the 1st round, Popyrin had a good straight sets win against Schnur (6-1 6-4). During the match Popyrin scored 54 points vs Schnur’s 35. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about the service games, Popyrin managed to score 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexei Popyrin was quite effective on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Schnur 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Popyrin has a winning match record in the last 5 years having won 59% of his matches (160-109). 1-0 on carpet in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Popyrin has a 1-0 win-loss record in the last 5 years on carpet.

Alexei’s best result of the current year was getting to the semi-finals in the Parma Challenger.

The Australian has a 13-15 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Eckental Challenger

Popyrin didn’t compete in the Eckental Challenger in 2019.

Zdenek Kolar

Ranked no. 229, the Czech reached the 2nd round after defeating Geoffrey Blancaneaux 7-65 6-3.

In the 1st round, Kolar had a good straight sets win against Blancaneaux (7-65 6-3). During the match Kolar scored 70 points vs Blancaneaux’s 59. The Czech was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Kolar scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Zdenek Kolar was very effective on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zdenek broke Blancaneaux once after converting 20% of his break points (1/5).

Zdenek has a 16-15 win-loss record in 2020, 1-1 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Eckental Challenger

Kolar surrendered in the 3rd round to Illya Marchenko.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Popyrin Kolar
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 22
Pts 54-35 70-59
Total Points 89 129
Winners 23 29
%Winners 43% 41%

Both Popyrin and Kolar played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Popyrin and Kolar have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Popyrin played 5 games less than Kolar. Alexei scored 23 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech bagged 29 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Popyrin Kolar
Aces 10 1
Avg per match 10 1
1st in 27/45 38/65
%1st in 60% 58%
1st pts 23/27 29/38
%1st pts 85% 76%
2nd pts 13/18 18/27
%2nd pts 72% 67%

Popyrin fired 10 aces . Kolar recorded 1 ace . Popyrin won 85% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 72% of the points. On the other side, Kolar won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Popyrin Kolar
Won 3 1
Converted 3/5 1/5
% Converted 60% 20%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0 0
% Saved NAN% NAN%
Times Broken 0 0

Alexei broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Alexei quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Czech broke his opponent once with a 20% conversion rate. Kolar was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Popyrin
R1
Schnur		 Total
Score 6-1 6-4
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 17 17
pts 54-35 54-35
Total points 89 89
Winners 23 23
%Winners 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 10 10
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 27/45 27/45
% 1st in 60% 60%
1st pts 23/27 23/27
% 1st pts 85% 85%
2nd pts 13/18 13/18
% 2nd pts 72% 72%
Breaks
Won 3 3
Converted 3/5 3/5
Converted % 60% 60%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % – 0%
Times Broken 0 0
Kolar
R1
Blancaneaux		 Total
Score 7-65 6-3
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 22 22
pts 70-59 70-59
Total points 129 129
Winners 29 29
%Winners 41% 41%
SERVE
Aces 1 1
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 38/65 38/65
% 1st in 58% 58%
1st pts 29/38 29/38
% 1st pts 76% 76%
2nd pts 18/27 18/27
% 2nd pts 67% 67%
Breaks
Won 1 1
Converted 1/5 1/5
Converted % 20% 20%
Conceded 0 0
Saved 0/0 0
Saved % – 0%
Times Broken 0 0

Tennis Scores in Eckental Challenger

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