Miljan Zekic and N.Sriram Balaji will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Ambato Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Miljan Zekic who should win in 2 sets.
Miljan Zekic -> 1.28
N.Sriram Balaji -> 3.50
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Prediction and head to head Miljan Zekic vs. N.Sriram Balaji
There is no head to head record between Miljan Zekic and N.Sriram Balaji since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Miljan Zekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-8 | 2-0 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 3-6 | 22-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 0-2 | 41-29 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-23 | 0-0 | 49-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 26-11 | 5-4 | 21-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 245, Miljan will start his run in the Ambato Challenger after he played his last match in the St. Tropez Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-0 to Krutykh in the 1st round on the 11th of October.
Miljan has a composed 36-26 win-loss record in 2022, 36-23 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Miljan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Barletta Challenger,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula and the Cali Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Zekic has an overall 509-263 record. He has a positive 478-225 record on clay.
Previously in the Ambato Challenger
The Serbian has never competed in this tournament before.
N.Sriram Balaji
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 897, N.Sriram got to the 1st round after beating Henry Barrett 6-2 6-1 and Tristan Mccormick 2-6 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications against Mccormick, N.Sriram recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 6-4). During the match Balaji scored 85 points vs Mccormick’s 78. N.Sriram was very aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Balaji scored 5 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. N.Sriram Balaji lost the serve twice and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Balaji put 62% of his first serves in, winning 75% (45/60) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (15/37) on the 2nd serve. Balaji was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Mccormick 3 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Indian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
N.Sriram has a composed 3-3 win-loss record in 2022, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Ambato Challenger
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Cayetano MarchMarch (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Arklon Huertas Del PinoHuertas Del Pino (6-3 7-60) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas AlvarezAlvarez – Murkel Alejandro Dellien VelascoAlejandro Dellien Velasco (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- N.Sriram BalajiBalaji – Miljan ZekicZekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Jorge Brian Panta HerrerosBrian Panta Herreros (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikola MilojevicMilojevic – Facundo BagnisBagnis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Juan Bautista OteguiBautista Otegui (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Kousuke OguraOgura (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matias ZukasZukas – Facundo MenaMena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Joao Lucas Reis Da SilvaLucas Reis Da Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Gerald MelzerMelzer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Conner Huertas Del PinoHuertas Del Pino – Kiranpal PannuPannu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo JuarezJuarez – Benjamin LockLock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza (0-0) – H2H and prediction