Vitaliy Sachko and Johan Nikles will play each other in the 1st round of the Bratislava Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 5. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Johan Nikles who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Johan Nikles is the pick to win this match.
Johan Nikles -> 1.72
Vitaliy Sachko -> 2.07
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Prediction and head to head Vitaliy Sachko vs. Johan Nikles
This will be the 2nd time that Vitaliy Sachko and Johan Nikles face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Sachko (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Sachko won 6-2 7-5 in the qualifications in the Lugano Challenger back in 2021.
Vitaliy Sachko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-13 | 3-3 | 6-9 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-32 | 4-3 | 28-16 | 15-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 24-33 | 2-3 | 12-18 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 42-28 | 0-2 | 24-17 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 7-3 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 255, Vitaliy will start his run in the Bratislava Challenger after he played his last match in the Prostejov Challenger where he lost 6-2 7-6(7) to Horansky in the 1st round on the 30th of May.
Sachko has an aggregate 8-13 win-loss record in 2022, 4-7 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Sachko has an overall 224-144 record. He has a positive 142-90 record on clay.
Previously in the Bratislava Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2015. See his history.
Johan Nikles
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-16 | 3-2 | 25-13 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-23 | 2-2 | 19-19 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-28 | 1-3 | 42-21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 14-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 281, Johan got to the 1st round after beating Gergely Madarasz 6-4 7-63 and Jonathan Mridha 6-2 4-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Nikles defeated Mridha (6-2 4-6 6-2). During the match Nikles scored 89 points vs Mridha’s 80. Johan was very aggressive to blast 43 winners.
About the serving games, Nikles scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Johan Nikles lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Nikles put 74% of his first serves in, winning 67% (43/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (10/23) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Mridha 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Swiss started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The Swiss has a compiled 16-10 win-loss record in 2022, 14-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Norbert GombosGombos – Peter Benjamin PrivaraBenjamin Privara (6-1 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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