Jozef Kovalik and Sebastian Gima will square off in the 1st round of the Bratislava 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on CENTRAL COURT. 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 Jozef Kovalik who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jozef Kovalik is the pick to win this match.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.183
Sebastian Gima -> 4.45
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Sebastian Gima
There is no head to head record between Jozef Kovalik and Sebastian Gima since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Jozef Kovalik
24 - 12win/loss
125
80
LWLWLLWWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-25 | 3-5 | 30-15 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 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. 119, Jozef will start his run in the Bratislava 1 Challenger after he played his last match at the Roland Garros where he lost 7-5 6-1 7-6(2) to Rune in the 3rd round on the 1st of June.
Jozef has an overall 24-12 win-loss record in 2024, 21-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Zadar Challenger where he defeated Adrian Andreev in the final 6-4 6-2 and the Split Challenger where he overcame Zsombor Piros in the final 6-4 5-7 7-5.
Talking about his overall career, Jozef has an overall 489-357 record. He has a positive 374-229 record on clay.
Previously in the Bratislava 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2019 and 2022. See his history.
Sebastian Gima
21 - 16win/loss
625
436
LWLWLWLWLL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-33 | 3-5 | 31-28 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 57-35 | 15-8 | 41-25 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 48-30 | 25-11 | 23-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-24 | 1-3 | 28-20 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-9 | 7-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 494, Gima reached the 1st round after beating Jonas Forejtek 7-61 3-6 6-4 and Matej Dodig 6-4 6-0.
In the qualifications, Sebastian had a good straight sets win against Dodig (6-4 6-0). During the match Gima scored 73 points vs Dodig’s 52. Gima was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Gima bagged 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Sebastian Gima was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (30/38) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sebastian broke Dodig 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sebastian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Romanian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Hammamet,M15 Antalya and M15 Bucharest.
Gima has an overall 21-16 win-loss record in 2024, 21-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bratislava 1 Challenger
The Romanian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-2 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luka MikrutMikrut – Jaime FariaFaria (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (4-6 7-65 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro CachinCachin – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-3 6-73 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Norbert GombosGombos – Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee (6-2 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henrique RochaRocha – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco TrungellitiMarco – Ivan GakhovIvan (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Matej DodigMatej – Radu AlbotRadu (4-6 7-6(5) 7-5) – See score progression
- Martin KlizanMartin – Dalibor SvrcinaDalibor (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pedro CachinCachin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian GimaGima – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martin KrumichKrumich – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
