Mate Valkusz and Patrik Rikl will face off in the 1^st round of the Ostrava Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mate Valkusz who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Mate Valkusz is the pick to win this match.
Mate Valkusz -> 1.38
Patrik Rikl -> 2.875

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Prediction and head to head Mate Valkusz vs. Patrik Rikl

There is no head to head record between Mate Valkusz and Patrik Rikl since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Mate Valkusz

Ranked no. 297, Valkusz will start his run in the Ostrava Challenger after he played his last match in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-2 to Pellegrino in the 1^st round on the 19^th of April.

Valkusz has an overall 9-9 win-loss record in 2023, 4-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).

The Hungarian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Tenerife 1 Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, The Hungarian has an overall 177-79 record. He has a positive 137-47 record on clay.

Previously in the Ostrava Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2019. See his history.

Patrik Rikl

Ranked no. 774, Patrik reached the 1^st round after beating Mathias Bourgue 6-3 6-3 and Timo Stodder 6-4 6-2.

In the qualifications, Patrik had a good straight sets win against Stodder (6-4 6-2). During the match Rikl scored 61 points vs Stodder’s 44. The Czech was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Rikl struck 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Patrik Rikl was very efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Rikl broke Stodder 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Patrik started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.

Patrik has a compiled 3-1 win-loss record in 2023, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Ostrava Challenger

• Ivan GakhovGakhov – Lukas RosolRosol (6-4 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Zdenek KolarZdenek – Miljan ZekicMiljan (7-6(9) 6-2) – See score progression

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