Jozef Kovalik and Nicolas Kicker will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Santiago Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nicolas Kicker who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Nicolas Kicker is the pick to win this match.
Nicolas Kicker -> 1.88
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Nicolas Kicker
This will be the 2nd time that Jozef Kovalik and Nicolas Kicker square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kicker (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Kicker won 1-6 7-6(6) 7-5 in the qualifications in Buenos Aires back in February 2021.
Jozef Kovalik
Ranked no. 129, the Slovakian will start his run in the Santiago Challenger after he played his last match in Santiago where he lost 6-1 0-6 6-4 to Tabilo in the 1st round on the 9th of March.
The Slovakian has a 8-7 win-loss record in 2021, 5-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Jozef’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Istanbul Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Jozef has an overall 386-268 record. He has a positive 282-165 record on clay.
Previously in the Santiago Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.
Nicolas Kicker
Currently unranked, Nicolas got to the 1st round after defeating Facundo Mena 6-4 3-6 7-63 and Sergio Galdos 6-2 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Galdos (6-2 6-1). During the match Kicker scored 60 points vs Galdos’s 32. Nicolas was quite aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Kicker wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nicolas Kicker was exceptionally effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 77% (10/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nicolas broke Galdos 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nicolas started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Kicker has a 6-3 win-loss record in 2021, 6-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pedro SousaSousa – Rafael MatosMatos (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas KickerKicker – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Thomaz BellucciBellucci (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Renzo OlivoOlivo (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Andrej MartinMartin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Orlando LuzLuz – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Nicolas JarryJarry (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – Joao MenezesMenezes (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Martin CuevasCuevas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
