Zdenek Kolar and Hazem Naow will face off in the 1st round of the Cherbourg Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on JEAN JAURES. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hazem Naow who should win in 3 sets.
Hazem Naow -> 1.63
Zdenek Kolar -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Hazem Naow
This will be the 2nd time that Zdenek Kolar and Hazem Naow square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Naow (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they fought against each other, Naow won 6-2 6-4 in the quarter in the Koblenz Challenger back in February 2024.
Zdenek Kolar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-13 | 1-2 | 8-6 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-35 | 6-8 | 19-19 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-36 | 1-6 | 17-24 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 41-32 | 1-4 | 34-19 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-19 | 1-3 | 9-8 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
Ranked no. 223, the Czech will start his run in the Cherbourg Challenger after he played his last match in the Nottingham Challenger where he lost 6-3 6-2 to Martineau in the quarter on the 9th of February.
Kolar has an aggregate 5-4 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kolar has an overall 308-255 record. He has a positive 54-48 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Cherbourg Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See his history.
Hazem Naow
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-9 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 16-5 | 0-0 | 3-1 |
| 2023 | 48-24 | 17-5 | 25-14 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 5-4 |
| 2022 | 23-17 | 14-6 | 8-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 42-18 | 32-13 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5-1 |
| 2020 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 367 (career-high), Naow got to the 1st round after beating Alexey Vatutin 7-5 6-1 and Adrien Gobat 7-63 6-1.
In the qualifications, Hazem had a good straight sets win against Gobat (7-63 6-1). During the match Naow scored 86 points vs Gobat’s 65. The Syrian was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Naow blasted 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Hazem Naow was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (35/47) of his 1st serve and 58% (14/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Hazem broke Gobat 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Naow started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
Naow’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Kish Island.
Hazem has a compiled 17-3 win-loss record in 2024, 7-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Cherbourg Challenger
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Valentin RoyerRoyer (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lucas PoullainPoullain – Marius CopilCopil (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Michael GeertsMichael – Oscar OtteOscar (6-7(5) 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Mattia BellucciMattia – Lorenzo GiustinoLorenzo (7-6(1) 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Richard BerankisBerankis – Henri SquireSquire (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benoit PairePaire – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Jules MarieMarie (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan LamasineLamasine – Jan ChoinskiChoinski (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Hazem NaowNaow (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Quentin HalysHalys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lorenzo RottoliRottoli – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Michael GeertsGeerts (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Titouan DroguetDroguet – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (0-0) – H2H and prediction