Sebastian Ofner and Alex Molcan will square off in the 2nd round of the Generali Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Ofner who should win in 3 sets.
Sebastian Ofner -> 1.77
Alex Molcan -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Sebastian Ofner vs. Alex Molcan
This will be the 3rd time that Sebastian Ofner and Alex Molcan clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Ofner (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Ofner won 6-7(7) 6-0 6-3 in the 1st round in the Rome 1 Challenger back in 2021.
Sebastian Ofner
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-25 | 6-8 | 8-13 | 1-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 60-31 | 12-10 | 37-13 | 7-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-18 | 4-4 | 21-12 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-24 | 4-6 | 4-8 | 7-6 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-17 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 61, the Austrian will start his run in Kitzbuhel after he played his last match in Umag where he lost 6-4 6-1 to Popyrin in the 2nd round on the 26th of July.
Sebastian has an overall 49-20 win-loss record in 2023, 37-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Salzburg Challenger where he beat Lukas Neumayer in the final 6-3 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Ofner has an overall 286-202 record. He has a positive 142-97 record on clay.
Previously in Kitzbuhel
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2017. See his history.
Alex Molcan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-14 | 3-4 | 9-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-27 | 10-8 | 13-13 | 3-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-24 | 7-8 | 18-9 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 65-24 | 8-3 | 42-14 | 13-6 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-11 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 120, Alex got to the 2nd round after beating Luca Van Assche 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Van Assche (6-4 6-3). During the match Molcan scored 71 points vs Van Assche’s 57. The Slovakian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Molcan recorded 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alex Molcan was pretty effective on serve to win 82% (27/33) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovakian broke Van Assche 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
The Slovakian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Banja Luka and the Bratislava 1 Challenger.
Molcan has a composed 16-17 win-loss record in 2023, 11-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Kitzbuhel
Molcan has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Kitzbuhel
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-75 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Guido PellaPella (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Luca Van AsscheVan Assche (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Francisco Cabral/Rafael MatosCabral/Rafael Matos – Matwe Middelkoop/David PelMiddelkoop/David Pel (7-65 6-3) – See score progression
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Guido AndreozziAndreozzi – Filip MisolicMisolic (5-7 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (6-7(5) 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Laslo DjereDjere – Christopher O’ConnellO’Connell (6-4 7-6(4)) – See score progression
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Dennis NovakNovak (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Pedro CachinCachin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo BagnisBagnis – Dominic ThiemThiem (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Laslo DjereDjere – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Alex MolcanMolcan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Guido AndreozziAndreozzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian BaezBaez – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Arthur RinderknechRinderknech (0-0) – H2H and prediction