Zdenek Kolar and Tatsuma Ito will square off in the 1st round of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zdenek Kolar is the pick to win this match.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.29
Tatsuma Ito -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Tatsuma Ito
There is no head to head record between Zdenek Kolar and Tatsuma Ito since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Zdenek Kolar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 1-2 | 7-5 | 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. 254, Zdenek will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Matsuyama Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-1 to Shimabukuro in the 1st round on the 8th of November.
Kolar has a composed 22-33 win-loss record in 2022, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Zdenek’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the Barletta Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Zdenek has an overall 268-213 record. He has a positive 40-38 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Zdenek has never competed in this tournament before.
Tatsuma Ito
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-18 | 14-14 | 10-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-8 | 11-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-23 | 6-12 | 1-3 | 2-6 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 588, Ito will start his run in the Kobe Challenger after he played his last match in the Yokohama Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-0 2-1 ret. to Watanuki in the 2nd round on the 1st of November.
Tatsuma has a composed 11-7 win-loss record in 2022, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Ito’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Sapporo.
In terms of his career, Ito has an overall 527-399 record. He has a positive 49-41 record on indoor hard courts.
Head 2 Head
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LL Tennis Scores in Kobe Challenger
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Taisei IchikawaIchikawa (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Dane SweenySweeny (6-3 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (6-3 6-77 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- John MillmanMillman – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-3 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Jason JungJung – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Shinji HazawaHazawa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Colin SinclairSinclair (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Tatsuma ItoIto (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (1-0) – H2H and prediction
