Otto Virtanen and Lukas Klein will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Bratislava 2 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lukas Klein who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lukas Klein is the pick to win this match.
Lukas Klein -> 1.87
Otto Virtanen -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Otto Virtanen vs. Lukas Klein
This will be the 2nd time that Otto Virtanen and Lukas Klein fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Klein (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Klein won 6-1 6-4 in the 1st round in the Ismaning Challenger back in 2022.
Otto Virtanen
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-24 | 9-10 | 5-7 | 16-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 118, Virtanen got to the 2nd round after defeating Liam Broady 7-65 1-6 6-2.
In the 1st round, Virtanen defeated Broady (7-65 1-6 6-2). During the match, Virtanen scored 90 points vs Broady’s 89. Virtanen was quite aggressive to blast 44 winners.
Regarding the service games, Virtanen fired 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Otto Virtanen lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Virtanen put 68% of his first serves in, winning 69% (44/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (12/30) on the 2nd serve. Virtanen broke Broady 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Virtanen has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 61% of his matches (160-103). 20-6 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Virtanen has an overall93-36 win-loss record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Lugano Challenger where he overcame Cem Ilkel in the final 6-4 7-6(5) and the Lille Challenger where he beat Max Purcell in the final 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2.
The Finn has an aggregate 31-26 win-loss record in 2023, 20-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bratislava 2 Challenger
The Finn has never competed in this tournament before.
Lukas Klein
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-20 | 15-9 | 9-7 | 0-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-29 | 9-8 | 15-12 | 11-6 | 1-2 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 44-22 | 5-0 | 27-17 | 8-3 | 3-1 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 28-22 | 0-2 | 23-17 | 2-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-15 | 1-1 | 4-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 149, Lukas reached the 2nd round after beating Dino Prizmic 6-0 6-3.
In the 1st round, Lukas had a good straight sets win against Prizmic (6-0 6-3). During the match Klein scored 52 points vs Prizmic’s 31. The Slovakian was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Klein struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Lukas Klein was exceptionally effective on serve to win 76% (19/25) of his 1st serve and 74% (14/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Lukas broke Prizmic 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Lukas’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Istanbul Challenger.
Klein has a compiled 28-27 win-loss record in 2023, 3-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Virtanen | Klein |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 28 | 15 |
| Pts | 90-89 | 52-31 |
| Total Points | 179 | 83 |
| Winners | 44 | 19 |
| %Winners | 49% | 37% |
Both Virtanen and Klein played 1 match. At the moment, Otto Virtanen dropped 1 set while Lukas Klein hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Virtanen has played 1 set more than Klein (3 vs 2). Therefore, Virtanen played 13 games more than Klein. Virtanen scored 44 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Klein bagged 19 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Virtanen | Klein |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 3 |
| 1st in | 64/94 | 25/44 |
| %1st in | 68% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 44/64 | 19/25 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 12/30 | 14/19 |
| %2nd pts | 40% | 74% |
Virtanen made 10 aces . Klein made 3 aces . Virtanen won 69% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Klein won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 74% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Virtanen | Klein |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 44% | 57% |
| Conceded | 10 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| % Saved | 50% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 0 |
Virtanen broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Finn surrendered his serve 5 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Klein broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Klein was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Virtanen | |||
| R1 Broady |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 1-6 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 90-89 | 90-89 | |
| Total points | 179 | 179 | |
| Winners | 44 | 44 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 64/94 | 64/94 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 44/64 | 44/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/30 | 12/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 40% | 40% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 10 | |
| Saved | 5/10 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Klein | |||
| R1 Prizmic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 52-31 | 52-31 | |
| Total points | 83 | 83 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 25/44 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 19/25 | 19/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/19 | 14/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 74% | 74% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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