Jozef Kovalik and Evan Furness will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Zadar Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Jozef Kovalik who should win in 2 sets.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.32
Evan Furness -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Evan Furness
This will be the 3rd time that Jozef Kovalik and Evan Furness face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Kovalik (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kovalik won 7-6(5) 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Oeiras 2 Challenger back in 2022.
Jozef Kovalik
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-13 | 3-4 | 24-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-34 | 1-3 | 21-28 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-23 | 3-6 | 29-13 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 0-1 | 26-20 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-16 | 2-3 | 15-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 213, Kovalik will start his run in the Zadar Challenger after he played his last match in the Szekesfehervar Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(5) to Droguet in the 2nd round on the 14th of March.
Kovalik has a composed 5-6 win-loss record in 2024, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Jozef has an overall 470-351 record. He has a positive 355-223 record on clay.
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
Evan Furness
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-16 | 3-2 | 8-11 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-15 | 0-3 | 5-5 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-31 | 2-3 | 16-12 | 19-15 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-27 | 14-1 | 26-20 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 |
| 2020 | 37-10 | 34-7 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 602, Furness got to the 1st round after beating Nikola Milojevic 7-5 6-4 and Eric Vanshelboim 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Evan had a good straight sets win against Vanshelboim (6-2 6-4). During the match Furness scored 73 points vs Vanshelboim’s 54. The French player was exceptionally aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Furness recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Evan Furness lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Furness put 73% of his first serves in, winning 64% (28/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. Furness broke Vanshelboim 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The French player started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 56% of the points he played.
The French player has a composed 8-6 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Zadar Challenger
Evan has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in Zadar Challenger
- Dino PrizmicPrizmic – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (6-2 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Corentin MoutetMoutet (5-7 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Nerman FaticFatic (6-0 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Clement TaburTabur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – Evan FurnessFurness (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Matteo MartineauMartineau (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mathys ErhardErhard – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Sandro KoppKopp (0-0) – H2H and prediction