Filip Misolic and Riccardo Balzerani will play each other in the qualifications of the Zadar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 10:00 am on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Filip Misolic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Filip Misolic is the pick to win this match.
Filip Misolic -> 1.285
Riccardo Balzerani -> 3.5
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Prediction and head to head Filip Misolic vs. Riccardo Balzerani
There is no head to head record between Filip Misolic and Riccardo Balzerani since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Filip Misolic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-14 | 1-4 | 10-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-28 | 6-9 | 25-13 | 8-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-18 | 5-4 | 31-12 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-16 | 0-1 | 44-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-12 | 1-2 | 14-9 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 317 (career-high), the Austrian reached the qualifications after defeating Bogdan Ionut Apostol 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Ionut Apostol (6-0 6-3). During the match, Misolic scored 64 points vs Ionut Apostol’s 41. Misolic was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Misolic recorded 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Filip Misolic conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Misolic put 73% of his first serves in, winning 76% (31/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (7/15) on the 2nd serve. Misolic broke Ionut Apostol 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Misolic has a solid match record in the last 4 years having won 68% of his matches (79-37). 8-2 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Misolic has an overall70-29 win-loss record in the last 4 years on clay.
Filip’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Porec.
Filip has a compiled 11-4 win-loss record in 2022, 8-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
The Austrian has never competed in this tournament before.
Riccardo Balzerani
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20-19 | 1-1 | 18-15 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 7-6 | 13-16 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-21 | 4-3 | 16-14 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-9 | 12-4 | 3-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 30-31 | 11-8 | 16-20 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 511, Riccardo reached the qualifications after defeating Max Hans Rehberg 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications, Riccardo had a good straight sets win against Hans Rehberg (7-5 7-5). During the match Balzerani scored 84 points vs Hans Rehberg’s 76. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Balzerani blasted 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Riccardo Balzerani lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Balzerani put 61% of his first serves in, winning 65% (30/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Hans Rehberg 6 times after converting 27% of his break points (6/22).
The Italian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Monastir.
The Italian has a composed 7-6 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Misolic | Balzerani |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 24 |
| Pts | 64-41 | 84-76 |
| Total Points | 105 | 160 |
| Winners | 31 | 30 |
| %Winners | 48% | 36% |
Both Misolic and Balzerani 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, Misolic and Balzerani have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Misolic played 9 games less than Balzerani. Misolic scored 31 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian managed to score 30 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Misolic | Balzerani |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 2 |
| 1st in | 41/56 | 46/75 |
| %1st in | 73% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 31/41 | 30/46 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 7/15 | 13/29 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 45% |
Misolic made 3 aces . Balzerani made 2 aces . Misolic won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Balzerani won 65% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 45% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Misolic | Balzerani |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 6/22 |
| % Converted | 50% | 27% |
| Conceded | 5 | 8 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
The Austrian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Misolic quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 5 break points. Balzerani broke his opponent 6 times with a 27% conversion rate. Balzerani conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Misolic | |||
| Q1 Ionut Apostol |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 64-41 | 64-41 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/56 | 41/56 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 31/41 | 31/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/15 | 7/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Balzerani | |||
| Q1 Hans |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 24 | 24 | |
| pts | 84-76 | 84-76 | |
| Total points | 160 | 160 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 46/75 | 46/75 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 30/46 | 30/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/29 | 13/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 45% | 45% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/22 | 6/22 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 27% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 4/8 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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