Jozef Kovalik and Robert Strombachs will play each other in the 1st round of the Troisdorf Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on SATURN CENTER COURT. In the following lines 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.
As per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.25
Robert Strombachs -> 3.65
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
To be able to watch live streaming bet365, a funded account is required or you need to have placed a bet in the last 24 hours. 18+ BeGambleAware.
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Â
Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Robert Strombachs
There is no head to head record between Jozef Kovalik and Robert Strombachs 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 | 27-14 | 3-4 | 24-9 | 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. 143, Kovalik will start his run in the Troisdorf Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Tomas Barrios Vera in the qualifications on the 23rd of May.
Jozef has an aggregate 8-16 win-loss record in 2023, 6-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kovalik has an overall 450-327 record. He has a positive 338-205 record on clay.
Previously in the Troisdorf Challenger
The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.
Robert Strombachs
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-18 | 3-3 | 4-8 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2023 | 54-33 | 44-21 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 68-30 | 47-21 | 15-4 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 21-26 | 18-15 | 1-3 | 1-6 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 13-11 | 6-5 | 3-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-3 |
Ranked no. 411, Strombachs reached the 1st round after beating Maxime Janvier 6-3 6-4 and Sumit Nagal 6-1 7-64.
In the qualifications, Robert had a good straight sets win against Nagal (6-1 7-64). During the match Strombachs scored 81 points vs Nagal’s 66. Robert was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Strombachs managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Robert Strombachs lost the serve once and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Strombachs put 67% of his first serves in, winning 74% (43/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (13/29) on the 2nd serve. The German broke Nagal 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The German started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.
The German’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M25 Sanxenxo.
The German has a compiled 27-13 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
LLWWWLWWLW
LLLLWLWLLW Tennis Scores in Troisdorf Challenger
- Mats MoraingMoraing – Jelle SelsSels (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Zsombor PirosPiros (3-6 6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (6-3 3-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Sumit NagalNagal (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Benjamin HassanHassan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hernan CasanovaCasanova – Constantin Bittoun KouzmineBittoun Kouzmine (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Jose PereiraPereira (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Joris De LooreDe Loore (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri SquireSquire – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Filip MisolicMisolic – Karl FribergFriberg (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Robert StrombachsStrombachs – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
