David Poljak and Otto Virtanen will play each other in the qualifications of the Biel Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Otto Virtanen who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Otto Virtanen is the pick to win this match.
Otto Virtanen -> 1.48
David Poljak -> 2.57
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Prediction and head to head David Poljak vs. Otto Virtanen
This will be the 2nd time that David Poljak and Otto Virtanen play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Virtanen (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Virtanen won 6-4 6-4 in the semifinal in M25 Vilnius back in January 2022.
David Poljak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-11 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2023 | 10-15 | 7-11 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 6-4 | 8-10 | 25-15 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 38-28 | 15-12 | 12-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 5-0 |
| 2020 | 22-13 | 16-7 | 4-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 371 (career-high), David got to the qualifications after defeating Antoine Bellier 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Bellier (6-4 6-4). During the match, Poljak scored 61 points vs Bellier’s 50. David was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about the service games, Poljak blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. David Poljak was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 80% (36/45) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. David broke Bellier twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Poljak has a winning win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 56% of his matches (261-202). 14-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Poljak has an aggregate32-25 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
Poljak’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Sultan.
The Czech has a compiled 14-5 win-loss record in 2022, 14-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Biel Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-15 | 3-7 | 3-5 | 16-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 413, Virtanen got to the qualifications after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Finn had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (6-4 6-2). During the match Virtanen scored 51 points vs Ramanathan’s 35. The Finn was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Virtanen struck 16 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Otto Virtanen was exceptionally effective on serve to win 90% (26/29) of his 1st serve and 71% (10/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Finn was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Ramanathan 3 times.
Virtanen’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Vilnius.
Virtanen has an aggregate 7-6 win-loss record in 2022, 5-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Poljak | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 18 |
| Pts | 61-50 | 51-35 |
| Total Points | 111 | 86 |
| Winners | 36 | 26 |
| %Winners | 59% | 51% |
Both Poljak and Virtanen played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Poljak and Virtanen have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Poljak played 2 games more than Virtanen. David scored 36 winners (59% of the total points). On the other side, Virtanen struck 26 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Poljak | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 16 |
| 1st in | 45/59 | 29/43 |
| %1st in | 76% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 26/29 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 90% |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 10/14 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 71% |
Poljak managed to score 4 aces . Virtanen struck 16 aces . Poljak won 80% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Virtanen won 90% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Poljak | Virtanen |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 3 |
| Converted | 2/5 | 3/3 |
| % Converted | 40% | 100% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
David broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. The Czech quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Finn broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Otto was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Poljak | |||
| Q1 Bellier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 61-50 | 61-50 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 59% | 59% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/59 | 45/59 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 8/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Virtanen | |||
| Q1 Ramanathan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 51-35 | 51-35 | |
| Total points | 86 | 86 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 16 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/29 | 26/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/14 | 10/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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