Jozef Kovalik and Zhizhen Zhang will square off in the qualifications of the Hamburg European Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:30 pm on COURT M3. 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 Jozef Kovalik who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.4
Zhizhen Zhang -> 2.95

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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Zhizhen Zhang

This will be the 2^nd time that Jozef Kovalik and Zhizhen Zhang play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kovalik (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they played, Kovalik won 7-6(7) 6-4 in the qualifications in Shenzhen back in 2016.

Jozef Kovalik

Ranked no. 127, Kovalik will start his run in Hamburg after he played his last match in the Braunschweig Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Laaksonen in the quarter on the 8^th of July.

Kovalik has an overall 19-17 win-loss record in 2021, 16-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Kovalik’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the Istanbul Challenger and the Belgrade Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Jozef has an overall 397-278 record. He has a positive 293-174 record on clay.

Previously in Hamburg

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.

Hamburg

Kovalik's Record

Zhizhen Zhang

Ranked no. 175, Zhizhen will start his run in Hamburg after he played his last match in the Perugia Challenger where he lost 7-6(6) 6-4 to Serdarusic in the 2^nd round on the 8^th of July.

Zhang has a composed 13-11 win-loss record in 2021, 7-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Zhang’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Biella 6 Challenger.

In terms of his career, The Chinese has an overall 191-158 record. He has a positive 66-52 record on clay.

Hamburg

Zhang's Record

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 0Main
• 9Chall
• 9Minor

• 0Slam
• 0Main
• 3Chall
• 2Minor

Jozef
Kovalik

1:2

Zhizhen
Zhang

Rank

127

High

80

1Hard0

0Clay2

Rank

45

High

31

Win Loss

Kovalik

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Zhang

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2024 2023 2022

35 - 23

24 - 28

3-5

Hard

9-12

2-2

I Hard

2-5

30-15

Clay

9-7

0-1

Grass

4-4

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Kovalik

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Zhang