Matija Pecotic and Marko Tepavac will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Banja Luka Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matija Pecotic who should win in 3 sets.
Matija Pecotic -> 1.61
Marko Tepavac -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Matija Pecotic vs. Marko Tepavac
This will be the 2nd time that Matija Pecotic and Marko Tepavac face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tepavac (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Tepavac won 7-6(5) 7-5 in the 2nd round in Egypt F7 back in 1970.
Matija Pecotic
Ranked no. 346, Matija will start his run in the Banja Luka Challenger after he played his last match in the Prague 3 Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-6(7) to Diaz in the 2nd round on the 25th of August.
Matija has a composed 9-12 win-loss record in 2021, 7-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Pecotic has an overall 178-72 record. He has a positive 28-21 record on clay.
Previously in the Banja Luka Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Marko Tepavac
Ranked no. 520, Tepavac reached the 1st round after beating Danijal Muminovic 6-2 6-3 and Dragos Nicolae Madaras 7-5 1-6 7-66.
In the qualifications, Marko defeated Nicolae Madaras (7-5 1-6 7-66).-97) than Nicolae Madaras. In fact, the world no. 346 won 97 points vs Nicolae Madaras’s. That means that Tepavac was more focused during the important points. Tepavac was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Tepavac made 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Marko Tepavac lost the serve 5 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Tepavac put 52% of his first serves in, winning 74% (39/53) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (22/49) on the 2nd serve. Tepavac broke Nicolae Madaras 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Tepavac started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Tepavac’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M25 Marburg.
Tepavac has an overall 17-13 win-loss record in 2021, 13-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Banja Luka Challenger
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Vladan TadicTadic (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Carlos Gomez-HerreraGomez-Herrera – Drazen PetrovicPetrovic (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (3-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Miljan ZekicZekic (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedja KrstinKrstin – Nicolas Moreno De AlboranMoreno De Alboran (6-2 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrej MartinMartin – Manuel GuinardGuinard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danilo PetrovicPetrovic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martin CuevasCuevas – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Zdenek KolarKolar (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Pedja KrstinKrstin (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David PoljakPoljak – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jonathan MridhaMridha – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Marko TepavacTepavac (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Mirza BasicBasic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Alexey VatutinVatutin (0-1) – H2H and prediction