Maximilian Marterer and Dennis Novak will face off in the 2nd round of the Zug Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRE 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 Maximilian Marterer who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Maximilian Marterer is the pick to win this match.
Maximilian Marterer -> 1.64
Dennis Novak -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Maximilian Marterer vs. Dennis Novak
This will be the 3rd time that Maximilian Marterer and Dennis Novak fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Marterer and Novak (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Marterer won 7-6(6) 6-4 in the 1st round in Kitzbuhel back in 2020.
Highlights Maximilian Marterer vs Dennis Novak – Kitzbuhel 09-September-2020
Maximilian Marterer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-32 | 5-10 | 11-11 | 4-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-27 | 12-10 | 13-10 | 12-4 | 5-2 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 39-28 | 11-7 | 17-15 | 7-5 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-28 | 4-2 | 15-16 | 7-7 | 0-1 | 3-2 |
Ranked no. 142, Marterer got to the 2nd round after defeating Viktor Durasovic 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round, The German had a good straight sets win against Durasovic (7-65 6-4). During the match, Marterer scored 75 points vs Durasovic’s 69. Marterer was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Marterer bagged 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Maximilian Marterer was quite effective on serve to win 79% (34/43) of his 1st serve and 69% (20/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Maximilian broke Durasovic once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).
Marterer has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (316-207). 17-12 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Marterer has an overall 151-105 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Maximilian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Braunschweig Challenger.
Marterer has an overall 29-18 win-loss record in 2022, 17-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zug Challenger
Marterer has never competed in this tournament before.
Dennis Novak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-26 | 5-6 | 18-15 | 5-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-23 | 12-3 | 12-10 | 10-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-27 | 2-2 | 21-14 | 6-9 | 4-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 26-29 | 1-3 | 9-12 | 14-11 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 166, the Austrian reached the 2nd round after defeating Yshai Oliel 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Austrian had a good straight sets win against Oliel (6-4 6-4). During the match Novak scored 68 points vs Oliel’s 47. Novak was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
About the serving games, Novak scored 8 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Dennis Novak was extremely effective on serve to win 91% (32/35) of his 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Novak broke Oliel twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
The Austrian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Quimper Challenger,the Murcia Challenger and the Mauthausen Challenger.
The Austrian has an aggregate 21-18 win-loss record in 2022, 12-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Marterer | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 20 |
| Pts | 75-69 | 68-47 |
| Total Points | 144 | 115 |
| Winners | 34 | 32 |
| %Winners | 45% | 47% |
Both Marterer and Novak played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Marterer and Novak have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Marterer played 3 games more than Novak. The German scored 34 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Novak struck 32 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Marterer | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 8 |
| 1st in | 43/72 | 35/46 |
| %1st in | 60% | 76% |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 32/35 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 20/29 | 8/11 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 73% |
Marterer made 11 aces . Novak bagged 8 aces . Marterer won 79% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Novak won 91% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Marterer | Novak |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 2 |
| Converted | 1/3 | 2/8 |
| % Converted | 33% | 25% |
| Conceded | 2 | 0 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Maximilian broke his opponent once with a 33% conversion rate. The German extremely effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. Novak broke his opponent twice with a 25% conversion rate. Novak was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Marterer | |||
| R1 Durasovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 75-69 | 75-69 | |
| Total points | 144 | 144 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 43/72 | 43/72 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 34/43 | 34/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/29 | 20/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/3 | 1/3 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Novak | |||
| R1 Oliel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 68-47 | 68-47 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 35/46 | 35/46 | |
| % 1st in | 76% | 76% | |
| 1st pts | 32/35 | 32/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/11 | 8/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 2/8 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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