Mohamed Safwat and Blaz Kavcic will square off in the 1st round of the Split 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Blaz Kavcic who should win in 2 sets.
Blaz Kavcic -> 1.32
Mohamed Safwat -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Mohamed Safwat vs. Blaz Kavcic
There is no head to head record between Mohamed Safwat and Blaz Kavcic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Mohamed Safwat
Ranked no. 160, Mohamed will start his run in the Split 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Biella 2 Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-4 to Donskoy in the 1st round on the 15th of February.
Mohamed has a 5-6 win-loss record in 2021, 1-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Egyptian’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Istanbul Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Mohamed has an overall 410-259 record. He has a positive 191-120 record on clay.
Previously in the Split 1 Challenger
The Egyptian has never competed in this tournament before.
Blaz Kavcic
Ranked no. 238, Kavcic got to the 1st round after defeating Bozo Barun 6-4 6-3 and Matteo Martineau 3-6 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications against Martineau, Blaz recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-3 6-1). During the match Kavcic scored 95 points vs Martineau’s 80. Blaz was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Kavcic managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Blaz Kavcic lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kavcic put 82% of his first serves in, winning 62% (40/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the 2nd serve. Kavcic broke Martineau 6 times after converting 43% of his break points (6/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Slovenian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Slovenian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Gran Canaria 2 Challenger.
Kavcic has a 14-7 win-loss record in 2021, 11-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Split 1 Challenger
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Mili PoljicakPoljicak (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Blaz RolaRola – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Sebastian OfnerOfner (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Lukas RosolRosol (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Joao DominguesDomingues (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Robin HaaseHaase – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro SousaSousa – Kacper ZukZuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mirza BasicBasic – Cem IlkelIlkel (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Blaz KavcicKavcic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – Uladzimir IgnatikIgnatik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Filip HoranskyHoransky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Akira SantillanSantillan – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Dustin BrownBrown (0-0) – H2H and prediction