Kai Wehnelt and Stefan Palosi will square off in the qualifications of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefan Palosi who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefan Palosi is the pick to win this match.
Stefan Palosi -> 1.53
Kai Wehnelt -> 2.37
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Prediction and head to head Kai Wehnelt vs. Stefan Palosi
There is no head to head record between Kai Wehnelt and Stefan Palosi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Kai Wehnelt
Ranked no. 619, Wehnelt reached the qualifications after defeating Calvin Hemery 6-5 ret..
In the qualifications, Kai had a good straight sets win against Hemery (6-5 ret.). During the match, Wehnelt scored 33 points vs Hemery’s 31. The German was very aggressive to blast 15 winners.
Regarding the service games, Wehnelt recorded 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kai Wehnelt lost the serve once. Furthermore, Wehnelt put 52% of his first serves in, winning 88% (15/17) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (6/16) on the 2nd serve. The German was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Hemery once.
Wehnelt has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (117-78). 12-13 on clay in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Wehnelt has an overall54-39 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
Kai’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Sozopol.
The German has an aggregate 19-18 win-loss record in 2021, 12-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Wehnelt has never competed in this tournament before.
Stefan Palosi
Ranked no. 772, Palosi got to the qualifications after defeating Dragos Nicolae Madaras 6-3 0-0 ret..
In the qualifications, The Romanian defeated Nicolae Madaras (6-3 0-0 ret.). During the match Palosi scored 43 points vs Nicolae Madaras’s 31. Stefan was very aggressive to blast 17 winners.
Talking about serving, Palosi recorded 4 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Stefan Palosi conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 71% of his first serves in, win 85% (17/20) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (4/8) on the 2nd serve. Palosi broke Nicolae Madaras once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).
The Romanian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Curtea de Arges.
Stefan has an aggregate 32-15 win-loss record in 2021, 32-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wehnelt | Palosi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 11 | 9 |
| Pts | 33-31 | 43-31 |
| Total Points | 64 | 74 |
| Winners | 15 | 17 |
| %Winners | 45% | 40% |
Both Wehnelt and Palosi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Wehnelt has played 1 set(s) less than Palosi (2 vs 3). However, it’s interesting to notice that Wehnelt played 2 games more than Palosi. Kai scored 15 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian fired 17 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wehnelt | Palosi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 17/33 | 20/28 |
| %1st in | 52% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 15/17 | 17/20 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 6/16 | 4/8 |
| %2nd pts | 38% | 50% |
Wehnelt recorded 5 aces . Palosi made 4 aces . Wehnelt won 88% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 38% of the points. On the other side, Palosi won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Wehnelt | Palosi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 1 |
| Converted | 1/1 | 1/6 |
| % Converted | 100% | 17% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Kai broke his opponent once with a 100% conversion rate. Kai lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Stefan broke his opponent once with a 17% conversion rate. Stefan was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Wehnelt | |||
| Q1 Hemery |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-5 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |
| Tot Games | 11 | 11 | |
| pts | 33-31 | 33-31 | |
| Total points | 64 | 64 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 17/33 | 17/33 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 15/17 | 15/17 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/16 | 6/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Palosi | |||
| Q1 Nicolae |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 0-0 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 9 | 9 | |
| pts | 43-31 | 43-31 | |
| Total points | 74 | 74 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 20/28 | 20/28 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 17/20 | 17/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/6 | 1/6 | |
| Converted % | 17% | 17% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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