Zizou Bergs and Denis Kudla will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Ilkley Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zizou Bergs who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zizou Bergs is the pick to win this match.
Zizou Bergs -> 1.66
Denis Kudla -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Zizou Bergs vs. Denis Kudla
There is no head to head record between Zizou Bergs and Denis Kudla since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Zizou Bergs
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-17 | 3-4 | 17-5 | 7-4 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-27 | 8-7 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 7-5 | 7-7 | 17-16 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-21 | 2-5 | 15-10 | 21-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-9 | 14-6 | 1-2 | 6-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 182, Zizou got to the 2nd round after beating Jurij Rodionov 7-61 4-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, Zizou defeated Rodionov (7-61 4-6 6-1). During the match, Bergs scored 105 points vs Rodionov’s 84. Bergs was extremely aggressive to blast 55 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bergs scored 11 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Zizou Bergs was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (55/72) of his 1st serve and 58% (19/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Zizou broke Rodionov twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Bergs has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 63% of his matches (235-140). 4-1 on grass in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Bergs has an aggregate12-3 match record in the last 8 years on grass.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Tallahassee Challenger where he beat Tung-Lin Wu in the final 7-5 6-2.
Bergs has an aggregate 19-16 win-loss record in 2023, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Denis Kudla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 5-3 | 6-6 | 5-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-28 | 13-17 | 1-3 | 11-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-33 | 21-19 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-27 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 4-4 | 12-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-9 | 13-6 | 0-1 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 189, Kudla reached the 2nd round after defeating Hamad Medjedovic 6-3 7-65.
In the 1st round, Kudla had a good straight sets win against Medjedovic (6-3 7-65). During the match Kudla scored 82 points vs Medjedovic’s 69. Denis was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about serving, Kudla bagged 14 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Denis Kudla conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Kudla put 66% of his first serves in, winning 91% (39/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Denis broke Medjedovic twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Denis has an overall 12-15 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Ilkley Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2015. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bergs | Kudla |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 30 | 22 |
| Pts | 105-84 | 82-69 |
| Total Points | 189 | 151 |
| Winners | 55 | 39 |
| %Winners | 52% | 48% |
Both Bergs and Kudla played 1 match. At the moment, Zizou Bergs conceded 1 set while Denis Kudla hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bergs has played 1 set more than Kudla (3 vs 2). Therefore, Bergs played 8 games more than Kudla. Zizou scored 55 winners (52% of the total points). On the other side, The American recorded 39 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bergs | Kudla |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 14 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 14 |
| 1st in | 72/105 | 43/65 |
| %1st in | 69% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 55/72 | 39/43 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 91% |
| 2nd pts | 19/33 | 11/22 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 50% |
Bergs made 11 aces . Kudla recorded 14 aces . Bergs won 76% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Kudla won 91% of the points on 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 | Bergs | Kudla |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 2 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/7 |
| % Converted | 67% | 29% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 6 | 3 |
| % Saved | 86% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Bergs broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Bergs lost his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Denis broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Denis was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Bergs | |||
| R1 Rodionov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-61 4-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
| pts | 105-84 | 105-84 | |
| Total points | 189 | 189 | |
| Winners | 55 | 55 | |
| %Winners | 52% | 52% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 72/105 | 72/105 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 55/72 | 55/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/33 | 19/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kudla | |||
| R1 Medjedovic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 82-69 | 82-69 | |
| Total points | 151 | 151 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 14 | 14 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 43/65 | 43/65 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 39/43 | 39/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 91% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWLLWWLWL Tennis Scores in Ilkley Challenger
- Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio – Johannus MondayMonday (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Toby SamuelSamuel (2-6 7-66 7-5) – See score progression
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Laurent LokoliLokoli (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (6-79 6-3 7-67) – See score progression
- Charles BroomBroom – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (7-65 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Norbert GombosGombos (7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Jurij RodionovRodionov (7-61 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
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