Steven Diez and Andrew Paulson will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Szczecin Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:30 am on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrew Paulson who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrew Paulson is the pick to win this match.
Andrew Paulson -> 1.87
Steven Diez -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Steven Diez vs. Andrew Paulson
There is no head to head record between Steven Diez and Andrew Paulson since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Steven Diez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-18 | 10-9 | 0-3 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-36 | 7-13 | 16-19 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-32 | 13-12 | 22-19 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-28 | 3-6 | 12-16 | 1-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-16 | 2-5 | 8-8 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 252, Diez reached the qualifications after defeating Szymon Kielan 6-1 7-5.
In the qualifications, Diez had a good straight sets win against Kielan (6-1 7-5). During the match, Diez scored 68 points vs Kielan’s 48. The Canadian was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Diez wasn’t able to score even 1 ace during the match and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Steven Diez lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Diez put 77% of his first serves in, winning 68% (27/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. Diez broke Kielan 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Diez has positive record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (340-272). 16-15 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Diez has an aggregate 194-141 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Steven’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Torello and the Iasi Challenger.
Steven has an overall 21-27 win-loss record in 2023, 16-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Szczecin Challenger
Andrew Paulson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-22 | 1-3 | 31-13 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 53-27 | 6-3 | 30-15 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 47-26 | 19-8 | 11-11 | 15-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 345 (career-high), Andrew reached the qualifications after defeating Marvin Moeller 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Andrew had a good straight sets win against Moeller (6-2 6-2). During the match Paulson scored 65 points vs Moeller’s 45. Paulson was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Paulson blasted 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Andrew Paulson was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Moeller 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Andrew’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Poprad,M25+H Kassel and M25 Lodz.
Andrew has an aggregate 23-14 win-loss record in 2023, 22-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Szczecin Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Diez | Paulson |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 16 |
| Pts | 68-48 | 65-45 |
| Total Points | 116 | 110 |
| Winners | 27 | 22 |
| %Winners | 40% | 34% |
Both Diez and Paulson 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, Diez and Paulson have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Diez played 3 games more than Paulson. The Canadian scored 27 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Andrew scored 22 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Diez | Paulson |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 7 |
| 1st in | 40/52 | 28/49 |
| %1st in | 77% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 22/28 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 62% |
Diez didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Paulson made 7 aces . Diez won 68% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Paulson won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Diez | Paulson |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 60% | 44% |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
Diez broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Steven dropped his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Andrew broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Czech was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Diez | |||
| Q1 Kielan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 68-48 | 68-48 | |
| Total points | 116 | 116 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 40/52 | 40/52 | |
| % 1st in | 77% | 77% | |
| 1st pts | 27/40 | 27/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/12 | 6/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Paulson | |||
| Q1 Moeller |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 65-45 | 65-45 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 28/49 | 28/49 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 22/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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