Giulio Zeppieri and Martin Klizan will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sassuolo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Giulio Zeppieri who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Giulio Zeppieri is the pick to win this match.
Giulio Zeppieri -> 1.4
Martin Klizan -> 2.8

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Prediction and head to head Giulio Zeppieri vs. Martin Klizan

This will be the 2nd time that Giulio Zeppieri and Martin Klizan clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Klizan (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.

The last time that they played, Klizan won 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in the Ortisei Challenger back in 2020.

Giulio Zeppieri

Giulio Zeppieri

18 - 17win/loss

Hard
8-4
I Hard
3-4
Clay
7-9
Rank
153
High
110
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 18-18 8-4 7-10 3-4 0-0 0-0
2023 41-26 7-5 19-13 14-7 1-1 0-0
2022 30-31 1-2 25-22 4-6 0-1 0-0
2021 27-20 0-0 26-16 1-4 0-0 0-0
2020 9-12 0-0 7-7 1-4 0-0 1-1

Ranked no. 139, the Italian will start his run in the Sassuolo Challenger after he played his last match in the Perugia Challenger where he lost 3-6 7-5 6-4 to Coric in the 1st round on the 10th of June.

The Italian has an overall 18-17 win-loss record in 2024, 7-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Italian has an overall 157-128 record. He has a positive 115-87 record on clay.

Previously in the Sassuolo Challenger

The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.

Sassuolo Challenger
Zeppieri's Record

Martin Klizan

Martin Klizan

34 - 6win/loss

Hard
11-2
I Hard
2-1
Clay
21-3
Rank
368
High
24
LWWWWWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 37-7 11-2 24-4 2-1 0-0 0-0
2023 3-1 0-0 3-1 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 9-14 0-1 6-7 3-5 0-1 0-0
2020 14-15 6-4 6-7 2-3 0-0 0-1

Ranked no. 466, Martin reached the 1st round after beating Raul Brancaccio 6-1 6-3 and Luka Mikrut 6-2 6-73 7-65.

In the qualifications, Klizan defeated Mikrut (6-2 6-73 7-65). During the match Klizan scored 115 points vs Mikrut’s 104. Martin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 40 winners.

Talking about serving, Klizan made 3 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Martin Klizan lost the serve 4 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Klizan put 54% of his first serves in, winning 68% (40/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (27/51) on the 2nd serve. Martin broke Mikrut 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Klizan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Martin’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Heraklion,M15 Telde,M25 Valldoreix and M25 Reggio Emilia.

The Slovakian has an aggregate 34-6 win-loss record in 2024, 21-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Sassuolo Challenger
Klizan's Record

Tennis Scores in Sassuolo Challenger

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