Zdenek Kolar and Francesco Forti will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Barletta Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zdenek Kolar who should win in 2 sets.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.33
Francesco Forti -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Francesco Forti
This will be the 2nd time that Zdenek Kolar and Francesco Forti square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kolar (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kolar won 6-1 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Cordenons Challenger back in 2018.
Zdenek Kolar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66-31 | 3-2 | 63-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-23 | 1-2 | 11-12 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-35 | 6-8 | 19-19 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-36 | 1-6 | 17-24 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 41-32 | 1-4 | 34-19 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141, Zdenek will start his run in the Barletta Challenger after he played his last match in the Oeiras 2 Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-2 6-1 to Elias in the semifinal on the 9th of April.
Zdenek has an aggregate 6-9 win-loss record in 2022, 5-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Kolar’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Kolar has an overall 252-189 record. He has a positive 180-114 record on clay.
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2019. See his history.
Francesco Forti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30-19 | 0-3 | 30-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-33 | 20-8 | 26-21 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 31-22 | 1-1 | 29-18 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 42-29 | 1-1 | 35-20 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 320, Francesco got to the 1st round after defeating Lorenzo Carbone 6-1 6-0 and Evgenii Tiurnev 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Tyurnev (6-4 6-1). During the match Forti scored 63 points vs Tyurnev’s 42. Francesco was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Forti fired 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Francesco Forti was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (26/30) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Forti broke Tyurnev 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Francesco started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 64% of the points he played.
The Italian has a composed 3-6 win-loss record in 2022, 3-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Barletta Challenger
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Jurij RodionovRodionov (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (2-6 6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nerman FaticFatic – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gilles SimonSimon – Marius CopilCopil (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas RosolRosol – Oleksandr OvcharenkoOvcharenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Jelle SelsSels (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas GerchGerch – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Kacper ZukZuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco FortiForti – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Titouan DroguetDroguet – Nuno BorgesBorges (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (1-1) – H2H and prediction