Daniel Altmaier and Blaz Rola will face off in the 2nd round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on STADIUM. 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 Daniel Altmaier who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Daniel Altmaier is the pick to win this match.
Daniel Altmaier -> 1.57
Blaz Rola -> 2.4
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Prediction and head to head Daniel Altmaier vs. Blaz Rola
This will be the 2nd time that Daniel Altmaier and Blaz Rola face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Altmaier (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Altmaier won 3-6 6-3 6-4 in the 3rd round in the Como Challenger back in 2019.
Daniel Altmaier
Ranked no. 105 (career-high), the German got to the 2nd round after defeating Adam Walton 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The German had a good straight sets win against Walton (6-3 6-2). During the match, Altmaier scored 61 points vs Walton’s 46. Daniel was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Altmaier recorded 11 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Daniel Altmaier lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Altmaier put 50% of his first serves in, winning 81% (26/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (15/32) on the 2nd serve. The German broke Walton 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Altmaier has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 64% of his matches (285-157). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Altmaier has an aggregate18-13 record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the season was winning the title in the Braunschweig Challenger where he beat Henri Laaksonen in the final 6-1 6-2 and in the Luedenscheid Challenger where he defeated Nicolas Jarry in the final 7-6(1) 4-6 6-3.
The German has a composed 40-25 win-loss record in 2021, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
The German has never competed in this tournament before.
Blaz Rola
Ranked no. 185, Blaz got to the 2nd round after beating Thai Kwiatkowski 6-3 7-65.
In the 1st round, Rola had a good straight sets win against Kwiatkowski (6-3 7-65). During the match Rola scored 75 points vs Kwiatkowski’s 68. Rola was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Rola made 15 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Blaz Rola lost the serve once. Furthermore, Rola put 71% of his first serves in, winning 78% (39/50) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (8/20) on the 2nd serve. Blaz broke Kwiatkowski twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
His best result of the season was winning the title in the Split 1 Challenger where he defeated Blaz Kavcic in the final 2-6 6-3 6-2.
Rola has an aggregate 23-25 win-loss record in 2021, 3-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Altmaier | Rola |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 |
| Pts | 61-46 | 75-68 |
| Total Points | 107 | 143 |
| Winners | 26 | 39 |
| %Winners | 43% | 52% |
Both Altmaier and Rola played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Altmaier and Rola have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Altmaier played 5 games less than Rola. Daniel scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Blaz fired 39 winners (52%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Altmaier | Rola |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 15 |
| 1st in | 32/64 | 50/70 |
| %1st in | 50% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 39/50 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 15/32 | 8/20 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 40% |
Altmaier made 11 aces . Rola recorded 15 aces . Altmaier won 81% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Rola won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 40% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Altmaier | Rola |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 2/7 |
| % Converted | 67% | 29% |
| Conceded | 5 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 80% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Altmaier broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Altmaier surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. The Slovenian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. The Slovenian conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Altmaier | |||
| R1 Walton |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-46 | 61-46 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 32/64 | 32/64 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/32 | 15/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Rola | |||
| R1 Kwiatkowski |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 75-68 | 75-68 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 50/70 | 50/70 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 39/50 | 39/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/20 | 8/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Knoxville Challenger
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Vasek PospisilPospisil (2-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Jack SockSock – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (7-64 7-5) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Jc AragoneAragone (5-7 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Adam WaltonWalton (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Tatsuma ItoIto (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Blaz RolaRola – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Jeff WolfWolf (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Donald YoungYoung (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (3-6 7-63 7-64) – See score progression
- Go SoedaSoeda – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-4 7-66) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (6-2 7-62) – See score progression
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Donald YoungYoung (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Jc AragoneAragone (5-7 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason JungJung – Christian HarrisonHarrison (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Blaz RolaRola – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jack SockSock – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Go SoedaSoeda (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Michael MmohMmoh – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
