Jozef Kovalik and Jeremy Jahn will square off in the 1st round of the Zadar Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jozef Kovalik who should win in 2 sets.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.26
Jeremy Jahn -> 3.58
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Jeremy Jahn
This will be the 2nd time that Jozef Kovalik and Jeremy Jahn face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kovalik (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kovalik won 7-5 6-3 in the qualifications in Munich back in 2017.
Jozef Kovalik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-25 | 3-5 | 30-15 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-34 | 1-3 | 21-28 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-23 | 3-6 | 29-13 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 0-1 | 26-20 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-16 | 2-3 | 15-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 153, Kovalik will start his run in the Zadar Challenger after he played his last match in Santiago where he lost 7-5 3-6 6-4 to Taberner in the qualifications on the 25th of February.
Jozef has an overall 2-7 win-loss record in 2023, 0-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Slovakian has an overall 444-318 record. He has a positive 332-196 record on clay.
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Kovalik has never competed in this tournament before.
Jeremy Jahn
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 23-20 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 20-21 | 0-0 | 17-16 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-12 | 0-0 | 1-9 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2019 | 32-19 | 2-4 | 21-12 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 643, the German got to the 1st round after defeating Cezar Cretu 6-0 1-6 6-0 and Nikola Milojevic 3-6 7-5 7-5.
In the qualifications against Milojevic, Jeremy recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 7-5). During the match Jahn scored 97 points vs Milojevic’s 96. The German was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Jahn struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jeremy Jahn lost the serve 5 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Jahn put 64% of his first serves in, winning 56% (33/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 58% (19/33) on the 2nd serve. Jeremy broke Milojevic 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The German started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Jeremy has a compiled 4-6 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Zadar Challenger
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Titouan DroguetDroguet (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Mili PoljicakPoljicak (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jeremy JahnJahn – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Miljan ZekicZekic – Dragos Nicolae MadarasNicolae Madaras (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Flavio CobolliCobolli (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Nerman FaticFatic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Gianluca MagerMager (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Julian OcleppoOcleppo – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giovanni FonioFonio – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Mate ValkuszValkusz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – David PichlerPichler (1-0) – H2H and prediction