Zdenek Kolar and David Poljak will play each other in the 1st round of the Vilnus Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on COURT 17. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zdenek Kolar who should win in 3 sets.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.49
David Poljak -> 2.47
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. David Poljak
This will be the 4th time that Zdenek Kolar and David Poljak clash against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Kolar (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they locked horns, Kolar won 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in the Iasi Challenger back in 2021.
Zdenek Kolar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-23 | 1-2 | 11-12 | 16-9 | 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. 242, the Czech will start his run in the Vilnus Challenger after he played his last match in the Ismaning Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(6) to Haase in the 1st round on the 12th of October.
Kolar has an overall 20-29 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
The Czech’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Zdenek has an overall 266-209 record. He has a positive 38-36 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Vilnus Challenger
Kolar has never competed in this tournament before.
David Poljak
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-22 | 7-4 | 5-5 | 8-11 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2023 | 10-15 | 7-11 | 3-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 6-4 | 8-10 | 25-15 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 38-28 | 15-12 | 12-12 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 5-0 |
| 2020 | 22-13 | 16-7 | 4-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 446, Poljak got to the 1st round after defeating Julius Tverijonas 6-2 1-6 6-1 and Terence Atmane 6-3 3-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, David defeated Atmane (6-3 3-6 6-2). During the match Poljak scored 85 points vs Atmane’s 78. David was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Poljak scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 4 double faults. David Poljak lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Poljak put 64% of his first serves in, winning 69% (41/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (17/33) on the 2nd serve. The Czech broke Atmane 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Poljak started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
The Czech’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Sultan.
David has an aggregate 34-23 win-loss record in 2022, 20-8 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Vilnus Challenger
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Vilius GaubasGaubas (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Laurent LokoliLokoli – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Edas ButvilasButvilas – Johan NiklesNikles (3-6 7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Mirza BasicBasic (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gianluca MagerMager – Maxime JanvierJanvier (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – David PoljakPoljak (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elliot BenchetritBenchetrit – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – Alastair GrayGray (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Ernests GulbisGulbis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dan AddedAdded – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ainius SabaliauskasSabaliauskas – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-0) – H2H and prediction