Johan Nikles and Rudolf Molleker will square off in the qualifications of the Szczecin Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Rudolf Molleker who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rudolf Molleker is the pick to win this match.
Rudolf Molleker -> 1.86
Johan Nikles -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Johan Nikles vs. Rudolf Molleker
This will be the 2nd time that Johan Nikles and Rudolf Molleker play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Nikles (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Nikles won 6-4 7-5 in the qualifications in the Madrid Challenger back in April 2022.
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. 274,he will start his run in the Szczecin Challenger after he played his last match in the Szczecin Challenger where he defeated 6-2 6-2 to Kielan in the qualifications on the 11th of September.
Johan has an overall 19-18 win-loss record in 2022, 17-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Swiss has an overall 240-173 record. He has a positive 165-113 record on clay.
Previously in the Szczecin Challenger
Johan has never competed in this tournament before.
Rudolf Molleker
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 4-4 | 6-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-7 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 397, Rudolf got to the qualifications after defeating Thomaz Bellucci 7-65 6-3.
In the qualifications, Molleker had a good straight sets win against Bellucci (7-65 6-3). During the match Molleker scored 76 points vs Bellucci’s 62. The German was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Molleker blasted 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Rudolf Molleker was pretty efficient on serve to win 77% (34/44) of his 1st serve and 63% (15/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Rudolf broke Bellucci twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Rudolf’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Split,M15 Kamen and M25 Wetzlar.
Molleker has an aggregate 34-19 win-loss record in 2022, 34-19 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Szczecin Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nikles | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 22 |
| Pts | 60-39 | 76-62 |
| Total Points | 99 | 138 |
| Winners | 20 | 34 |
| %Winners | 33% | 45% |
Both Nikles and Molleker played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Nikles and Molleker have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nikles played 6 games less than Molleker. The Swiss scored 20 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Rudolf managed to score 34 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nikles | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 9 |
| 1st in | 28/48 | 44/68 |
| %1st in | 58% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 20/28 | 34/44 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 15/20 | 15/24 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 63% |
Nikles didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Molleker struck 9 aces . Nikles won 71% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Molleker won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nikles | Molleker |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 57% | 33% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 1 |
| % Saved | 0% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Johan broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Nikles pretty effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Rudolf broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Molleker conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nikles | ||
| Total | ||
|---|---|---|
| Score | ||
| Tot Set | 0 | |
| Tot Games | 0 | |
| pts | 0-0 | |
| Total points | 0 | |
| Winners | 0 | |
| %Winners | 0% | |
| SERVE | ||
| Aces | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | |
| 1st in | 0/0 | |
| % 1st in | 0% | |
| 1st pts | 0/0 | |
| % 1st pts | % | |
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | |
| % 2nd pts | 0% | |
| Breaks | ||
| Won | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/0 | |
| Converted % | 0% | |
| Conceded | 0 | |
| Saved | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | |
| Molleker | |||
| Q1 Bellucci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 76-62 | 76-62 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 44/68 | 44/68 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 34/44 | 34/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/24 | 15/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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