Zdenek Kolar and Lukas Klein will square off in the 2nd round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:30 am on CENTRE COURT. 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 Lukas Klein who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lukas Klein is the pick to win this match.
Lukas Klein -> 1.62
Zdenek Kolar -> 2.24
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Lukas Klein
This will be the 2nd time that Zdenek Kolar and Lukas Klein fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kolar (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kolar won 7-5 6-4 in the qualifications in the Ostrava Challenger back in 2020.
Zdenek Kolar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-14 | 1-2 | 8-7 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-35 | 6-8 | 19-19 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-36 | 1-6 | 17-24 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 41-32 | 1-4 | 34-19 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-19 | 1-3 | 9-8 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 226, Kolar got to the 2nd round after beating Dragos Dima 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Zdenek had a good straight sets win against Dima (6-2 6-3). During the match, Kolar scored 62 points vs Dima’s 45. The Czech was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kolar scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault. Zdenek Kolar lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kolar put 57% of his first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the 2nd serve. Zdenek broke Dima 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Kolar has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (265-205). 16-20 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Kolar has an aggregate191-127 match record in the last 7 years on clay.
The Czech’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
The Czech has an aggregate 19-25 win-loss record in 2022, 16-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Lukas Klein
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-12 | 13-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-29 | 9-8 | 15-12 | 11-6 | 1-2 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 44-22 | 5-0 | 27-17 | 8-3 | 3-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 28-22 | 0-2 | 23-17 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-15 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 229, Lukas got to the 2nd round after beating Vlad Victor Cornea 6-2 7-5.
In the 1st round, Klein had a good straight sets win against Victor Cornea (6-2 7-5). During the match Klein scored 74 points vs Victor Cornea’s 55. Lukas was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
About the serving games, Klein scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Lukas Klein was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (25/32) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Lukas was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Victor Cornea 4 times.
Lukas’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Troisdorf Challenger.
The Slovakian has an overall 29-17 win-loss record in 2022, 26-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Lukas has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kolar | Klein |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 20 |
| Pts | 62-45 | 74-55 |
| Total Points | 107 | 129 |
| Winners | 20 | 25 |
| %Winners | 32% | 34% |
Both Kolar and Klein played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kolar and Klein have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kolar played 3 games less than Klein. The Czech scored 20 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Lukas scored 25 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kolar | Klein |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 32/53 |
| %1st in | 57% | 60% |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 25/32 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 14/21 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 67% |
Kolar bagged 1 ace . Klein also fired 1 ace . Kolar won 67% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Klein won 78% of the points on 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 | Kolar | Klein |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/4 |
| % Converted | 71% | 100% |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 1 |
| % Saved | 33% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
The Czech broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Zdenek lost his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The Slovakian broke his opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Klein conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kolar | |||
| R1 Dima |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-45 | 62-45 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 30/53 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 20/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Klein | |||
| R1 Victor Cornea |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 74-55 | 74-55 | |
| Total points | 129 | 129 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 32/53 | 32/53 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 25/32 | 25/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/21 | 14/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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