Jozef Kovalik and Illya Marchenko will face off in the qualifications of the Sofia Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 5:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Illya Marchenko who should win in 3 sets.
Illya Marchenko -> 1.7
Jozef Kovalik -> 2.15
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Illya Marchenko
This will be the 2nd time that Jozef Kovalik and Illya Marchenko play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Marchenko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
Jozef Kovalik
Ranked no. 126, Kovalik will start his run in Sofia after he played his last match in the Marbella Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Clarke in the 1st round the 26th of October.
Jozef has a 15-14 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, The Slovakian has an overall 376-259 record. He has negative 14-27 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in Sofia
Jozef didn’t compete in Sofia in 2019.
Illya Marchenko
Ranked no. 216, the Ukrainian will start his run in Sofia after he played his last match in the Eckental Challenger where he lost 6-3 1-6 6-1 to Moeller in the 1st round the 2nd of November.
The Ukrainian has a 13-11 win-loss record in 2020, 13-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.The Ukrainian’s best result of the year was reaching the semi-finals in the Bergamo Challenger.
In terms of his career, Illya has an overall 487-349 record. He has positive 173-95 record on indoor hard courts.
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gilles SimonSimon – Matija PecoticPecotic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marin CilicCilic – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor TroickiTroicki – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (4-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Gabriel DonevDonev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- John MillmanMillman – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Yuichi SugitaSugita (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Jannik SinnerSinner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Alexander DonskiDonski (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Martin KlizanKlizan (0-0) – H2H and prediction