Stefan Kozlov and Sam Riffice will face off in the 1st round of the Fairfield Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:00 pm on CAMMISA COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sam Riffice who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Sam Riffice is the pick to win this match.
Sam Riffice -> 1.82
Stefan Kozlov -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Stefan Kozlov vs. Sam Riffice
This will be the 3rd time that Stefan Kozlov and Sam Riffice play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Kozlov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Kozlov won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in the Lexington Challenger back in 2021.
Stefan Kozlov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-19 | 16-9 | 17-8 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-12 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-34 | 14-18 | 0-5 | 4-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-15 | 20-12 | 5-2 | 16-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-13 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 131, Stefan will start his run in the Fairfield Challenger after he played his last match in the Tiburon Challenger where he lost 6-1 7-5 to Galarneau in the 2nd round on the 6th of October.
Kozlov has a compiled 14-29 win-loss record in 2022, 10-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Stefan has an overall 268-212 record. He has a positive 133-111 record on hard.
Previously in the Fairfield Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017. See his history.
Sam Riffice
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20-10 | 18-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-5 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 14-7 | 13-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2018 | 28-18 | 20-11 | 7-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 650, Riffice got to the 1st round after beating Jack Pinnington Jones 6-3 6-4 and Ezekiel Clark 5-7 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications against Clark, The American recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 7-5 6-3). During the match Riffice scored 116 points vs Clark’s 112. Riffice was quite aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Riffice bagged 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Sam Riffice lost the serve 3 times and he saved 14 break points. Furthermore, Riffice put 51% of his first serves in, winning 69% (42/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (29/58) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Clark 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Fayetteville.
Sam has an overall 17-9 win-loss record in 2022, 15-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Malek JaziriJaziri – Alfredo PerezPerez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian FanselowFanselow – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni OradiniOradini – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Alexander CozbinovCozbinov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Valentin VacherotVacherot – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sam RifficeRiffice – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
