Zdenek Kolar and Carlos Gimeno Valero will face off in the 1st round of the Barletta Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. 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 Zdenek Kolar who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zdenek Kolar is the pick to win this match.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.61
Carlos Gimeno Valero -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Carlos Gimeno Valero
There is no head to head record between Zdenek Kolar and Carlos Gimeno Valero since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Zdenek Kolar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-23 | 1-2 | 11-12 | 16-9 | 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. 229, Zdenek will start his run in the Barletta Challenger after he played his last match in the Zadar Challenger where he lost 2-6 6-3 6-2 to Serdarusic in the 2nd round on the 21st of March.
Zdenek has a compiled 8-9 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Kolar has an overall 311-260 record. He has a positive 214-152 record on clay.
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Carlos Gimeno Valero
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 23-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 25-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 18-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 24-16 | 3-2 | 20-13 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-5 | 5-1 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 503, Gimeno got to the 1st round after beating Mark Whitehouse 6-2 6-0 and Lorenzo Rottoli 3-6 6-1 7-65.
In the qualifications against Rottoli, The Spaniard recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-1 7-65). During the match Gimeno scored 103 points vs Rottoli’s 93. Gimeno was quite aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Gimeno couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 8 double faults. Carlos Gimeno Valero lost the serve 5 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Gimeno put 70% of his first serves in, winning 63% (45/72) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. Gimeno broke Rottoli 6 times after converting 40% of his break points (6/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Carlos started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Carlos’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Antalya and M25 Antalya.
Carlos has a compiled 19-3 win-loss record in 2024, 19-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Barletta Challenger
Gimeno has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (6-2 5-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maks KasnikowskiKasnikowski – Giovanni OradiniOradini (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle – Steven DiezDiez (2-6 6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco AgamenoneFranco – Marcello SerafiniMarcello (7-5 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Jacopo BerrettiniJacopo – Chun Hsin TsengChun (7-6(6) 7-5) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marius CopilCopil – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Andrea PicchionePicchione (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin BonziBonzi – Jiri VeselyVesely (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea GuerrieriGuerrieri – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova – Filip MisolicMisolic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Harold MayotMayot – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli – Francesco PassaroPassaro (1-1) – H2H and prediction
