Blaz Rola and Tim Puetz will square off in the qualifications of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 3:30 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blaz Rola who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Blaz Rola is the pick to win this match.
Blaz Rola -> 1.32
Tim Puetz -> 3.38
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Prediction and head to head Blaz Rola vs. Tim Puetz
This will be the 2nd time that Blaz Rola and Tim Puetz fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Rola (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Rola won 6-4 6-1 in the 1st round in the Liberec Challenger back in 2014.
Blaz Rola
Ranked no. 161, Rola will start his run in Doha after he played his last match in the Sultan 2 Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-2 to Kwon in the 1st round on the 2nd of March.
The Slovenian has a 3-6 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Rola has an overall 392-259 record. He has a positive 83-74 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Rola has never competed in this tournament before.
Tim Puetz
Currently unranked, the German got to the qualifications after defeating Marcelo Melo 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, The German had a good straight sets win against Melo (6-3 6-2). During the match Puetz scored 70 points vs Melo’s 49. The German was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Puetz bagged 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Tim Puetz was very efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 58% (11/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Puetz broke Melo 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Puetz has a 1-0 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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