Zsombor Piros and Mirza Basic will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Split Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 10:30 am on PRACTICE 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zsombor Piros who should win in 3 sets.
Zsombor Piros -> 1.69
Mirza Basic -> 2.17
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Prediction and head to head Zsombor Piros vs. Mirza Basic
There is no head to head record between Zsombor Piros and Mirza Basic since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Zsombor Piros
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-16 | 6-4 | 26-8 | 7-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-29 | 1-6 | 17-17 | 13-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-29 | 3-2 | 35-18 | 5-7 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-23 | 7-6 | 19-9 | 10-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-16 | 3-2 | 31-9 | 13-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211 (career-high), the Hungarian reached the 2nd round after defeating Marco Trungelliti 4-2 ret..
In the 1st round, Zsombor had a good straight sets win against Trungelliti (4-2 ret.). During the match, Piros scored 31 points vs Trungelliti’s 22. Piros was pretty aggressive to blast 12 winners.
Regarding the service games, Piros scored just 1 ace during the encounter and he committed only 1 double fault. Zsombor Piros lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Piros put 68% of his first serves in, winning 63% (12/19) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (5/9) on the 2nd serve. The Hungarian broke Trungelliti twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).
Piros has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 64% of his matches (162-91). 8-4 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Piros has an aggregate106-50 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Piros’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Forli 1 Challenger and the Forli 2 Challenger.
Zsombor has an overall 16-9 win-loss record in 2022, 8-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Split Challenger
The Hungarian has never competed in this tournament before.
Mirza Basic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-17 | 0-1 | 36-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-23 | 4-7 | 21-13 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-19 | 0-1 | 23-12 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 17-29 | 1-6 | 6-11 | 8-9 | 1-2 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 37-27 | 9-7 | 17-13 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 214, Basic reached the 2nd round after beating Geoffrey Blancaneaux 7-5 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Bosnian had a good straight sets win against Blancaneaux (7-5 6-4). During the match Basic scored 65 points vs Blancaneaux’s 60. Basic was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Basic was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mirza Basic lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Basic put 69% of his first serves in, winning 71% (32/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. Basic broke Blancaneaux 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Mirza’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Forli 5 Challenger.
Mirza has an overall 9-8 win-loss record in 2022, 4-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Piros | Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 6 | 22 |
| Pts | 31-22 | 65-60 |
| Total Points | 53 | 125 |
| Winners | 12 | 32 |
| %Winners | 39% | 49% |
Both Piros and Basic played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Piros and Basic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Piros played 16 games less than Basic. Piros scored 12 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Bosnian scored 32 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Piros | Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 19/28 | 45/65 |
| %1st in | 68% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 12/19 | 32/45 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 10/20 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 50% |
Piros scored 1 ace . Basic didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Piros won 63% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Basic won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Piros | Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/4 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 75% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Hungarian broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Piros surrendered his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Bosnian broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Basic conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Piros | |||
| R1 Trungelliti | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-2 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |
| Tot Games | 6 | 6 | |
| pts | 31-22 | 31-22 | |
| Total points | 53 | 53 | |
| Winners | 12 | 12 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 19/28 | 19/28 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/4 | 2/4 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Basic | |||
| R1 Blancaneaux | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 65-60 | 65-60 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/65 | 45/65 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 32/45 | 32/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/20 | 10/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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