Jason Murray Kubler and Stefan Kozlov will face off in the 2nd round of the Columbus Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 4. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jason Murray Kubler who should win in 3 sets.
Jason Murray Kubler -> 1.89
Stefan Kozlov -> 1.909
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Prediction and head to head Jason Murray Kubler vs. Stefan Kozlov
This will be the 2nd time that Jason Murray Kubler and Stefan Kozlov face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Murray Kubler (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Murray Kubler won 6-2 6-3 in the 3rd round in the Winnetka Challenger back in 2019.
Jason Murray Kubler
Ranked no. 219, the Australian reached the 2nd round after beating Peter Polansky 7-66 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Polansky (7-66 6-4). During the match, Murray Kubler scored 72 points vs Polansky’s 68. Murray Kubler was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Murray Kubler recorded 8 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Jason Murray Kubler was very effective on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Jason broke Polansky twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Murray Kubler has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 69% of his matches (287-128). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Murray Kubler has a compiled 1-2 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the current season was winning the title in the Lexington Challenger where he defeated Alejandro Tabilo in the final 7-5 6-7(2) 7-5.
The Australian has an overall 23-9 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Stefan Kozlov
Ranked no. 301, the American reached the 2nd round after defeating Mitchell Krueger 6-0 6-3.
In the 1st round, Kozlov had a good straight sets win against Krueger (6-0 6-3). During the match Kozlov scored 64 points vs Krueger’s 42. Kozlov was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Kozlov scored 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Stefan Kozlov conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Kozlov put 71% of his first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Stefan broke Krueger 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Stefan’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in M15 Weston and the Cary Challenger.
Stefan has an aggregate 21-12 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2015 and 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Murray Kubler | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 15 |
| Pts | 72-68 | 64-42 |
| Total Points | 140 | 106 |
| Winners | 31 | 28 |
| %Winners | 43% | 44% |
Both Murray Kubler and Kozlov played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Murray Kubler and Kozlov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Murray Kubler played 8 games more than Kozlov. The Australian scored 31 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The American managed to score 28 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Murray Kubler | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 4 |
| 1st in | 43/71 | 37/52 |
| %1st in | 61% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 31/43 | 28/37 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 18/28 | 7/15 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 47% |
Murray Kubler scored 8 aces . Kozlov fired 4 aces . Murray Kubler won 72% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Kozlov won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Murray Kubler | Kozlov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 29% | 45% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Jason broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. The Australian dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Kozlov broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Murray Kubler | |||
| R1 Polansky | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 72-68 | 72-68 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 43/71 | 43/71 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 31/43 | 31/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/28 | 18/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kozlov | |||
| R1 Krueger | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 64-42 | 64-42 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/52 | 37/52 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 28/37 | 28/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/15 | 7/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Max PurcellPurcell – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-3 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex BoltBolt – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (7-64 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Dayne KellyKelly (6-4 0-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Evan KingKing – Jeff WolfWolf (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Stefan KozlovKozlov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Alex BoltBolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction