Jiri Vesely and Alex Knaff will square off in the qualifications of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jiri Vesely who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jiri Vesely is the pick to win this match.
Jiri Vesely -> 1.3
Alex Knaff -> 3.3
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Prediction and head to head Jiri Vesely vs. Alex Knaff
There is no head to head record between Jiri Vesely and Alex Knaff since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Jiri Vesely
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-27 | 6-8 | 7-12 | 6-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-15 | 5-3 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 20-19 | 12-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-27 | 4-5 | 8-12 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 9-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 431, the Czech got to the qualifications after beating Vadym Ursu 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications, Jiri had a good straight sets win against Ursu (6-4 6-3). During the match, Vesely scored 65 points vs Ursu’s 49. The Czech was very aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Vesely scored 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Jiri Vesely lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Vesely put 67% of his first serves in, winning 70% (26/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the 2nd serve. Jiri broke Ursu 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Vesely has good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (276-229). 1-0 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Vesely has an overall 80-74 record in the last years on hard.
The Czech has an overall 5-10 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Alex Knaff
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-31 | 27-21 | 2-3 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-31 | 36-22 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-25 | 20-9 | 3-6 | 24-9 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2021 | 20-13 | 5-4 | 5-5 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 496, Alex got to the qualifications after defeating Szymon Kielan 6-3 6-0.
In the qualifications, Alex had a good straight sets win against Kielan (6-3 6-0). During the match Knaff scored 56 points vs Kielan’s 32. Alex was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Knaff blasted 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Alex Knaff was quite efficient on serve to win 71% (24/34) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Luxembourger broke Kielan 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Alex’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Esch/Alzette.
The Luxembourger has an aggregate 31-18 win-loss record in 2023, 18-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vesely | Knaff |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 15 |
| Pts | 65-49 | 56-32 |
| Total Points | 114 | 88 |
| Winners | 26 | 24 |
| %Winners | 40% | 43% |
Both Vesely and Knaff played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Vesely and Knaff have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Vesely played 4 games more than Knaff. The Czech scored 26 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, The Luxembourger scored 24 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vesely | Knaff |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 2 |
| 1st in | 37/55 | 34/49 |
| %1st in | 67% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 26/37 | 24/34 |
| %1st pts | 70% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 10/15 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 67% |
Vesely struck 10 aces . Knaff blasted 2 aces . Vesely won 70% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Knaff won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vesely | Knaff |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 80% | 67% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 75% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Czech broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Vesely conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Luxembourger broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Luxembourger was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Vesely | |||
| Q1 Ursu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 65-49 | 65-49 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 37/55 | 37/55 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/37 | 26/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Knaff | |||
| Q1 Kielan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 56-32 | 56-32 | |
| Total points | 88 | 88 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 34/49 | 34/49 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 24/34 | 24/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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