Jozef Kovalik and Zsombor Piros will face off in the 2nd round of the Sanremo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRALE. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zsombor Piros who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zsombor Piros is the pick to win this match.
Zsombor Piros -> 1.68
Jozef Kovalik -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Zsombor Piros
There is no head to head record between Jozef Kovalik and Zsombor Piros since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
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, Jozef got to the 2nd round after defeating Billy Harris 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Kovalik had a good straight sets win against Harris (6-2 6-1). During the match, Kovalik scored 64 points vs Harris’s 40. The Slovakian was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kovalik scored just 1 ace during the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Jozef Kovalik was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Jozef broke Harris 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Kovalik has positive record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (316-241). 2-4 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Kovalik has a compiled 242-149 record in the last years on clay.
Jozef has an overall 4-8 win-loss record in 2023, 2-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sanremo Challenger
Kovalik has never competed in this tournament before.
Zsombor Piros
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-29 | 1-6 | 17-17 | 13-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-29 | 3-2 | 35-18 | 5-7 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-23 | 7-6 | 19-9 | 10-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-16 | 3-2 | 31-9 | 13-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-2 | 1-1 | 7-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 185, Zsombor reached the 2nd round after beating Matteo Arnaldi 6-3 7-63.
In the 1st round, Zsombor had a good straight sets win against Arnaldi (6-3 7-63). During the match Piros scored 78 points vs Arnaldi’s 69. Piros was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
About the serving games, Piros scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Zsombor Piros was quite effective on serve to win 79% (31/39) of his 1st serve and 59% (20/34) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Piros broke Arnaldi twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Piros has a composed 10-8 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovalik | Piros |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 22 |
| Pts | 64-40 | 78-69 |
| Total Points | 104 | 147 |
| Winners | 23 | 31 |
| %Winners | 36% | 40% |
Both Kovalik and Piros played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kovalik and Piros have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kovalik played 7 games less than Piros. Jozef scored 23 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Piros fired 31 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovalik | Piros |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 30/56 | 39/73 |
| %1st in | 54% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 31/39 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 20/34 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 59% |
Kovalik struck 1 ace . Piros also fired 1 ace . Kovalik won 77% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Piros won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovalik | Piros |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 2/3 |
| % Converted | 50% | 67% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Jozef broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Jozef was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 4 break points. Piros broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Piros was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Kovalik | |||
| R1 Harris |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 64-40 | 64-40 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/56 | 30/56 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Piros | |||
| R1 Arnaldi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 78-69 | 78-69 | |
| Total points | 147 | 147 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 39/73 | 39/73 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 31/39 | 31/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/34 | 20/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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