Maximilian Marterer and Kacper Zuk will face off in the 2^nd round of the Ismaning Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:30 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 Maximilian Marterer who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Maximilian Marterer is the pick to win this match.
Maximilian Marterer -> 1.37
Kacper Zuk -> 2.91

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Prediction and head to head Maximilian Marterer vs. Kacper Zuk

This will be the 3^rd time that Maximilian Marterer and Kacper Zuk play each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on carpet.

The last time that they locked horns, Marterer won 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Eckental Challenger back in 2021.

Maximilian Marterer

Maximilian Marterer

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	22-32	5-10	11-11	4-8	2-3	0-0
2023	46-27	12-10	13-10	12-4	5-2	4-1
2022	39-28	11-7	17-15	7-5	4-1	0-0
2021	29-28	4-2	15-16	7-7	0-1	3-2
2020	19-14	0-2	9-6	8-4	0-0	2-2

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Ranked no. 105, Marterer reached the 2^nd round after beating Michael Geerts 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Maximilian had a good straight sets win against Geerts (6-3 6-4). During the match, Marterer scored 52 points vs Geerts’s 43. Marterer was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Marterer scored 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Maximilian Marterer conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 65% of his first serves in, win 91% (31/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Marterer was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Geerts twice.

Marterer has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (346-231). 1-0 on carpet in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Marterer has an overall 40-16 win-loss record in the last years on carpet.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Amersfoort Challenger where he overcame Titouan Droguet in the final 6-4 6-2.

Marterer has an overall 38-25 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Ismaning Challenger

Ismaning Challenger

Marterer's Record

Kacper Zuk

Kacper Zuk

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Rank
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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	8-11	0-1	5-6	3-3	0-0	0-1
2023	26-29	7-9	5-8	6-11	0-0	8-1
2022	35-27	12-7	6-9	12-9	0-1	5-1
2021	41-25	5-5	17-8	15-8	2-2	2-2
2020	31-9	6-2	10-4	15-2	0-0	0-1

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Ranked no. 371, Kacper reached the 2^nd round after defeating Petr Nouza 7-6⁵ 6-3, Jiri Vesely 5-7 6-4 6-3 and Adrian Andreev 7-6¹² 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Kacper had a good straight sets win against Andreev (7-6¹² 6-4). During the match Zuk scored 87 points vs Andreev’s 82. Zuk was exceptionally aggressive to blast 45 winners.

About the serving games, Zuk scored 5 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Kacper Zuk conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 7 break points. Furthermore, Zuk put 63% of his first serves in, winning 82% (45/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (16/32) on the 2nd serve. The Pole broke Andreev once after converting 14% of his break points (1/7).

Kacper’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Trimbach.

Zuk has an aggregate 26-26 win-loss record in 2023, 8-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Ismaning Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.

Ismaning Challenger

Zuk's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Marterer played 1 match while Zuk competed in 3 matches. Zuk started his run from the qualifications while Marterer had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Kacper Zuk surrendered 1 set while Maximilian Marterer hasn’t dropped a set so far. Marterer has played 5 set(s) less than Zuk (2 vs 7). Therefore, Marterer played 57 games less than Zuk. Marterer scored 31 winners (60% of the total points). On the other side, Kacper recorded 117 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Marterer recorded 15 aces . Zuk bagged 23 aces (7.7 per match). Marterer won 91% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Zuk won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Maximilian broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. The German extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 0 break points. Zuk broke his opponents 4 times with a 22% conversion rate. The Pole conceded his serve once and he saved 94% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Maximilian
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Kacper
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185

High

45

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Rank

878

High

162

Win Loss

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2024 2023 2022

20 - 31

8 - 11

5-10

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0-1

2-7

I Hard

3-3

11-11

Clay

5-6

2-3

Grass

0-0

Tennis Scores in Ismaning Challenger

• Kacper ZukZuk – Adrian AndreevAndreev (7-6¹² 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximilian MartererMarterer – Michael GeertsGeerts (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz – Mate ValkuszValkusz (6-4 7-6¹³) – See score progression
• Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Louis WesselsWessels (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine BellierBellier – Harold MayotMayot (7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – Mili PoljicakPoljicak (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Timo StodderStodder – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (3-6 7-6³ 6-3) – See score progression
• Henri SquireSquire – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Alibek KachmazovKachmazov – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Rudolf MollekerMolleker – Daniel MasurMasur (7-6⁴ 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine BellierBellier – Harold MayotMayot (7-6(1) 6-3) – See score progression
• Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz – Mate ValkuszValkusz (6-4 7-6(13)) – See score progression
• Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Louis WesselsWessels (6-4 6-7(6) 6-3) – See score progression
• Kacper ZukZuk – Adrian AndreevAndreev (7-6(12) 6-4) – See score progression
• Maximilian MartererMarterer – Michael GeertsGeerts (6-3 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Lukas KleinKlein (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mathias BourgueBourgue – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Nerman FaticFatic – Marius CopilCopil (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Timo StodderStodder – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Kacper ZukZuk – Maximilian MartererMarterer (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Henri SquireSquire – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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