Jozef Kovalik and Steven Diez will face off in the 1st round of the Cagliari Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on CAMPO 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.41
Steven Diez -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Steven Diez
This will be the 3rd time that Jozef Kovalik and Steven Diez play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Kovalik (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kovalik won 4-6 6-1 6-3 in the semifinal in the Itajai Challenger back in 2013.
Jozef Kovalik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-14 | 3-4 | 25-9 | 0-0 | 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. 147, Jozef will start his run in the Cagliari Challenger after he played his last match in Madrid where he lost 6-4 4-6 6-4 to Zeppieri in the qualifications on the 24th of April.
Kovalik has an overall 7-13 win-loss record in 2023, 5-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kovalik has an overall 449-324 record. He has a positive 337-202 record on clay.
Previously in the Cagliari Challenger
Jozef has never competed in this tournament before.
Steven Diez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4-12 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-36 | 7-13 | 16-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-32 | 13-12 | 22-19 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-28 | 3-6 | 12-16 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-16 | 2-5 | 8-8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 261, the Canadian reached the 1st round after beating Nicolas Barrientos 6-0 4-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, Diez defeated Barrientos (6-0 4-6 6-3). During the match Diez scored 94 points vs Barrientos’s 72. Steven was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Diez wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Steven Diez lost the serve 5 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Diez put 70% of his first serves in, winning 61% (36/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 36% (9/25) on the 2nd serve. Steven broke Barrientos 9 times after converting 56% of his break points (9/16).
Steven’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M25 Torello.
Steven has an overall 12-13 win-loss record in 2023, 9-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LLLLWLWWLW Tennis Scores in Cagliari Challenger
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Andrea VavassoriVavassori (7-60 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mattia BellucciBellucci – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (2-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taro DanielDaniel – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-1 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander Erler/Lucas MiedlerErler/Lucas Miedler – Nikola Cacic/Aleksandr NedovyesovCacic/Aleksandr Nedovyesov (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Taro DanielDaniel (2-2) – H2H and prediction
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