Mate Valkusz and Michael Vrbensky will play each other in the qualifications of the Prostejov Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mate Valkusz who should win in 2 sets.
Mate Valkusz -> 1.29
Michael Vrbensky -> 3.35
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Prediction and head to head Mate Valkusz vs. Michael Vrbensky
This will be the 2nd time that Mate Valkusz and Michael Vrbensky fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Valkusz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Valkusz won 6-2 3-6 6-4 in the semifinal in M25 Opatija back in 2022.
Mate Valkusz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-7 | 0-1 | 20-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 6-8 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-24 | 5-2 | 23-14 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 33-14 | 5-5 | 27-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-9 | 4-2 | 27-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 225 (career-high), Valkusz reached the qualifications after beating Jan Kumstat 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Valkusz had a good straight sets win against Kumstat (6-4 6-2). During the match, Valkusz scored 71 points vs Kumstat’s 54. Valkusz was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Valkusz scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mate Valkusz was very effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 61% (14/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Valkusz broke Kumstat 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Valkusz has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 70% of his matches (192-82). 19-8 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Valkusz has a composed152-50 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Skopje Challenger where he beat Francisco Comesana in the final 6-3 6-4.
Mate has a compiled 24-12 win-loss record in 2023, 19-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Prostejov Challenger
Valkusz has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Vrbensky
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-31 | 4-4 | 19-20 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-27 | 4-4 | 32-18 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 58-28 | 11-6 | 44-21 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 54-27 | 7-3 | 37-16 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 17-24 | 2-1 | 14-21 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 344, the Czech reached the qualifications after beating Saba Purtseladze 6-2 ret..
In the qualifications against Purtseladze, Vrbensky had a free pass after Purtseladze retired on a 6-2 . scoreline.
The Czech’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Vila Real de Santo Antonio,M25 Faro and M25 Most.
Vrbensky has a composed 21-12 win-loss record in 2023, 10-6 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Valkusz | Vrbensky |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 8 |
| Pts | 71-54 | 33-23 |
| Total Points | 125 | 56 |
| Winners | 25 | 11 |
| %Winners | 35% | 33% |
Both Valkusz and Vrbensky played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Valkusz and Vrbensky have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Valkusz played 10 games more than Vrbensky. Valkusz scored 25 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech struck 11 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Valkusz | Vrbensky |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 13/29 |
| %1st in | 60% | 45% |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 11/13 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 8/16 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 50% |
Valkusz recorded 1 ace . Vrbensky also managed to score 1 ace . Valkusz won 71% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Vrbensky won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Valkusz | Vrbensky |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 2/2 |
| % Converted | 44% | 100% |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 83% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Hungarian broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Valkusz dropped his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The Czech was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Valkusz | |||
| Q1 Kumstat | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 71-54 | 71-54 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/58 | 35/58 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/23 | 14/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Vrbensky | |||
| Q1 Purtseladze | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 1 | 1 | |
| Tot Games | 8 | 8 | |
| pts | 33-23 | 33-23 | |
| Total points | 56 | 56 | |
| Winners | 11 | 11 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 13/29 | 13/29 | |
| % 1st in | 45% | 45% | |
| 1st pts | 11/13 | 11/13 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 8/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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