Andrej Martin and Riccardo Balzerani will play each other in the 1st round of the Zadar Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrej Martin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrej Martin is the pick to win this match.
Andrej Martin -> 1.139
Riccardo Balzerani -> 5.35
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Prediction and head to head Andrej Martin vs. Riccardo Balzerani
There is no head to head record between Andrej Martin and Riccardo Balzerani since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Andrej Martin
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 35-11 | 1-1 | 34-8 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 10-20 | 0-1 | 9-18 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2021 | 41-35 | 0-3 | 40-31 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 16-20 | 2-4 | 14-14 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 128, the Slovakian will start his run in the Zadar Challenger after he played his last match in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 2 Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-3 7-5 to Piros in the 1st round on the 15th of March.
Andrej has an overall 1-7 win-loss record in 2022, 1-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Martin has an overall 549-406 record. He has a positive 430-277 record on clay.
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.
Riccardo Balzerani
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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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 got to the 1st round after beating Max Hans Rehberg 7-5 7-5 and Filip Misolic 6-3 7-67.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Misolic (6-3 7-67). During the match Balzerani scored 81 points vs Misolic’s 71. Riccardo was pretty aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Balzerani couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 7 double faults. Riccardo Balzerani lost the serve 5 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Balzerani put 63% of his first serves in, winning 58% (30/52) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (12/30) on the 2nd serve. Riccardo broke Misolic 7 times after converting 70% of his break points (7/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Italian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 53% of the points he played.
Balzerani’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Monastir.
The Italian has an aggregate 8-6 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Zadar Challenger
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Gianluca MagerMager (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-2 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (1-6 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Denis IstominIstomin (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Andrej MartinMartin – Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gastao EliasElias – Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Lukas RosolRosol (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Eduard Esteve LobatoEsteve Lobato – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (3-5) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – (0-0) – H2H and prediction