Jozef Kovalik and Flavio Cobolli will square off in the 2^nd round of the Parma Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jozef Kovalik who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.533
Flavio Cobolli -> 2.43

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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Flavio Cobolli

There is no head to head record between Jozef Kovalik and Flavio Cobolli since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Jozef Kovalik

Ranked no. 156, Jozef got to the 2^nd round after defeating Andrea Pellegrino 6-1 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Kovalik had a good straight sets win against Pellegrino (6-1 6-3). During the match, Kovalik scored 68 points vs Pellegrino’s 42. Kovalik was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kovalik struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Jozef Kovalik lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kovalik put 71% of his first serves in, winning 86% (25/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Pellegrino 5 times after converting 38% of his break points (5/13).

Kovalik has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (344-250). 26-12 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Kovalik has an overall 268-162 record in the last years on clay.

Kovalik’s best result of the year was reaching the final in the Tulln Challenger.

Kovalik has an aggregate 29-19 win-loss record in 2022, 26-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Parma Challenger

The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.

Flavio Cobolli

Ranked no. 159, Flavio reached the 2^nd round after beating Fausto Tabacco 6-4 7-5.

In the 1^st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Tabacco (6-4 7-5). During the match Cobolli scored 75 points vs Tabacco’s 69. The Italian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Cobolli scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Flavio Cobolli lost the serve 5 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Cobolli put 54% of his first serves in, winning 67% (28/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 33% (12/36) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Tabacco 7 times after converting 47% of his break points (7/15).

The Italian’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Zadar Challenger.

Cobolli has an overall 30-27 win-loss record in 2022, 24-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Kovalik	Cobolli
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	22
Pts	68-42	75-69
Total Points	110	144
Winners	25	28
%Winners	37%	37%

Both Kovalik and Cobolli played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kovalik and Cobolli have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kovalik played 6 games less than Cobolli. Kovalik scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Cobolli recorded 28 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Kovalik	Cobolli
Aces	3	1
Avg per match	3	1
1st in	29/41	42/78
%1st in	71%	54%
1st pts	25/29	28/42
%1st pts	86%	67%
2nd pts	6/12	12/36
%2nd pts	50%	33%

Kovalik scored 3 aces . Cobolli blasted 1 ace . Kovalik won 86% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Cobolli won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 33% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Kovalik	Cobolli
Won	5	7
Converted	5/13	7/15
% Converted	38%	47%
Conceded	2	11
Saved	1	6
% Saved	50%	55%
Times Broken	1	5

Kovalik broke his opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Jozef surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Flavio broke his opponent 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. Flavio conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 55% of the break points that he conceded.

Kovalik
	R1 Pellegrino	Total
Score	6-1 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	68-42	68-42
Total points	110	110
Winners	25	25
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	29/41	29/41
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	25/29	25/29
% 1st pts	86%	86%
2nd pts	6/12	6/12
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/13
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	2	2
Saved	1/2	1
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	1	1

Cobolli
	R1 Tabacco	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	75-69	75-69
Total points	144	144
Winners	28	28
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	3	3
1st in	42/78	42/78
% 1st in	54%	54%
1st pts	28/42	28/42
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	12/36	12/36
% 2nd pts	33%	33%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/15	7/15
Converted %	47%	47%
Conceded	11	11
Saved	6/11	6
Saved %	55%	55%
Times Broken	5	5

Tennis Scores in Parma Challenger

• Zdenek KolarKolar – Francesco PassaroPassaro (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Miljan ZekicZekic – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Francesco FortiForti (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Vit KoprivaKopriva – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (7-6⁷ 6-1) – See score progression
• Mate ValkuszValkusz – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Flavio CobolliCobolli – Fausto TabaccoTabacco (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Oleksandr OvcharenkoOvcharenko (1-6 6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Gianluca MagerMager – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (5-7 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Timofey SkatovSkatov – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Gianmarco FerrariFerrari (7-6³ 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Dusan LajovicLajovic – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-2 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Jozef KovalikKovalik – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-3 2-6 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Gianluca MagerMager – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Miljan ZekicZekic (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Dusan LajovicLajovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vit KoprivaKopriva – Zdenek KolarKolar (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Flavio CobolliCobolli – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-0) – H2H and prediction