Denis Kudla and Stefan Kozlov will square off in the 1st round of the Sarasota Challenger for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Kudla who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Denis Kudla is the pick to win this match.
Denis Kudla -> 1.25
Stefan Kozlov -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Denis Kudla vs. Stefan Kozlov
This will be the 6th time that Denis Kudla and Stefan Kozlov fight against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Kozlov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Kudla won 4-6 7-6(7) 6-3 in the qualifications in Sydney back in 2022.
Denis Kudla
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-15 | 5-3 | 6-6 | 5-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-28 | 13-17 | 1-3 | 11-4 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-33 | 21-19 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-27 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 4-4 | 12-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 19-9 | 13-6 | 0-1 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 162, Denis will start his run in the Sarasota Challenger after he played his last match in Houston where he lost 3-6 7-6(3) 6-2 to Darderi in the 1st round on the 2nd of April.
The American has a compiled 13-8 win-loss record in 2024, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Denis’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger and the San Luis Potosi Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The American has an overall 504-388 record. He has a negative 72-76 record on clay.
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Stefan Kozlov
20 - 9win/loss
442
103
WWLWLLLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-14 | 7-5 | 17-8 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-12 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-34 | 14-18 | 0-5 | 4-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-15 | 20-12 | 5-2 | 16-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 13-13 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 594, Kozlov reached the 1st round after defeating Arthur Gea 6-4 7-65 and Gabi Adrian Boitan 6-3 7-610.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Adrian Boitan (6-3 7-610). During the match Kozlov scored 85 points vs Adrian Boitan’s 69. Kozlov was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Kozlov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 7 double faults. Stefan Kozlov lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kozlov put 64% of his first serves in, winning 65% (31/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Adrian Boitan 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kozlov started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 53% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger.
Stefan has an aggregate 19-9 win-loss record in 2024, 12-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2018. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Patrick KypsonKypson (6-2 3-6 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ethan QuinnQuinn – Clement TaburTabur (6-4 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin DammDamm – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-71 7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zizou BergsBergs – Oliver CrawfordCrawford (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Calvin HemeryHemery (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Giovanni FonioFonio (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Denis KudlaKudla (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felix CorwinCorwin – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
