Steven Diez and Maks Kasnikowski will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:00 am on COURT 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Steven Diez who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Steven Diez is the pick to win this match.
Steven Diez -> 1.57
Maks Kasnikowski -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Steven Diez vs. Maks Kasnikowski
There is no head to head record between Steven Diez and Maks Kasnikowski since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Steven Diez
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 13-18 | 10-9 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 24-36 | 7-13 | 16-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2022 | 36-32 | 13-12 | 22-19 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 16-28 | 3-6 | 12-16 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
2020 | 10-16 | 2-5 | 8-8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 423, Steven reached the qualifications after defeating Davide Galoppini 6-2 6-0.
In the qualifications, Steven had a good straight sets win against Galoppini (6-2 6-0). During the match, Diez scored 55 points vs Galoppini’s 23. Steven was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Diez couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Steven Diez was extremely efficient on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 63% (5/8) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Canadian broke Galoppini 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Diez has good match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (348-272). 12-15 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Diez has an overall 191-145 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Steven’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Sierre and Bigorre.
The Canadian has a compiled 23-26 win-loss record in 2022, 12-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Maks Kasnikowski
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 37-25 | 6-8 | 22-13 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 40-25 | 13-6 | 22-14 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 44-19 | 16-7 | 20-10 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 11-11 | 7-5 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 500 (career-high), Kasnikowski reached the qualifications after defeating Marc Popescu 6-0 6-0.
In the qualifications, Maks had a good straight sets win against Popescu (6-0 6-0). During the match Kasnikowski scored 49 points vs Popescu’s 15. The Pole was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about serving, Kasnikowski wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Maks Kasnikowski was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 86% (18/21) of his 1st serve and 67% (6/9) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kasnikowski broke Popescu 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Kasnikowski’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Wroclaw,M15 Lodz and M15 Parnu.
Maks has an aggregate 25-13 win-loss record in 2022, 20-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Diez | Kasnikowski |
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Match played | 1 | 1 |
Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
Tot Games | 14 | 12 |
Pts | 55-23 | 49-15 |
Total Points | 78 | 64 |
Winners | 26 | 18 |
%Winners | 47% | 37% |
Both Diez and Kasnikowski played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Diez and Kasnikowski have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Diez played 2 games more than Kasnikowski. Diez scored 26 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, Maks fired 18 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Diez | Kasnikowski |
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Aces | 0 | 0 |
Avg per match | 0 | 0 |
1st in | 34/42 | 21/30 |
%1st in | 81% | 70% |
1st pts | 26/34 | 18/21 |
%1st pts | 76% | 86% |
2nd pts | 5/8 | 6/9 |
%2nd pts | 63% | 67% |
Diez didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kasnikowski also didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Diez won 76% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Kasnikowski won 86% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Diez | Kasnikowski |
---|---|---|
Won | 5 | 6 |
Converted | 5/7 | 6/9 |
% Converted | 71% | 67% |
Conceded | 1 | 0 |
Saved | 1 | 0 |
% Saved | 100% | 0% |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Steven broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Steven had a solid display on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Pole broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Maks was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
Diez | |||
Q1 Galoppini |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-0 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
pts | 55-23 | 55-23 | |
Total points | 78 | 78 | |
Winners | 26 | 26 | |
%Winners | 47% | 47% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 34/42 | 34/42 | |
% 1st in | 81% | 81% | |
1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
% 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
2nd pts | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
% 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kasnikowski | |||
Q1 Popescu |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-0 6-0 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 12 | 12 | |
pts | 49-15 | 49-15 | |
Total points | 64 | 64 | |
Winners | 18 | 18 | |
%Winners | 37% | 37% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 21/30 | 21/30 | |
% 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
1st pts | 18/21 | 18/21 | |
% 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
2nd pts | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
% 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 6 | 6 | |
Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
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