Damir Dzumhur and Johan Nikles will face off in the 2nd round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Damir Dzumhur who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Damir Dzumhur is the pick to win this match.
Damir Dzumhur -> 1.43
Johan Nikles -> 2.74
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Prediction and head to head Damir Dzumhur vs. Johan Nikles
There is no head to head record between Damir Dzumhur and Johan Nikles since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Damir Dzumhur
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-30 | 11-13 | 23-7 | 6-7 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-34 | 15-5 | 18-18 | 8-9 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 5-5 | 19-12 | 10-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-32 | 6-6 | 17-17 | 6-6 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 18-15 | 4-7 | 6-4 | 8-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 192, the Bosnian reached the 2nd round after beating Filip Horansky 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Damir had a good straight sets win against Horansky (6-3 6-2). During the match, Dzumhur scored 67 points vs Horansky’s 50. Dzumhur was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Dzumhur couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Damir Dzumhur lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Dzumhur put 66% of his first serves in, winning 73% (27/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Dzumhur broke Horansky 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Dzumhur has positive win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (360-272). 16-11 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Dzumhur has a composed 176-113 match record in the last years on clay.
Dzumhur’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Banja Luka Challenger.
The Bosnian has a compiled 26-21 win-loss record in 2022, 16-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Johan Nikles
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 44-25 | 11-5 | 33-19 | 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. 275, Nikles reached the 2nd round after defeating Kai Wehnelt 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Wehnelt (6-4 7-5). During the match Nikles scored 78 points vs Wehnelt’s 64. The Swiss was quite aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Nikles made 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Johan Nikles lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Nikles put 70% of his first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 29% (6/21) on the 2nd serve. Nikles broke Wehnelt 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Nikles has a composed 21-19 win-loss record in 2022, 19-17 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Johan has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Dzumhur | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 |
| Pts | 67-50 | 78-64 |
| Total Points | 117 | 142 |
| Winners | 27 | 36 |
| %Winners | 40% | 46% |
Both Dzumhur and Nikles played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Dzumhur and Nikles have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Dzumhur played 5 games less than Nikles. The Bosnian scored 27 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Nikles scored 36 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Dzumhur | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 3 |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 49/70 |
| %1st in | 66% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 36/49 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 6/21 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 29% |
Dzumhur didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Nikles made 3 aces . Dzumhur won 73% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Nikles won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 29% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Dzumhur | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 44% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 4 |
| % Saved | 50% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Damir broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Damir surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Nikles broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Nikles conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Dzumhur | |||
| R1 Horansky |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 67-50 | 67-50 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 37/56 | 37/56 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 9/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Nikles | |||
| R1 Wehnelt |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-64 | 78-64 | |
| Total points | 142 | 142 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 49/70 | 49/70 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/21 | 6/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 29% | 29% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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