Stefan Kozlov and Michael Zheng will face off in the 1st round of the Bloomfield Hills Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Stefan Kozlov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Stefan Kozlov is the pick to win this match.
Stefan Kozlov -> 1.727
Michael Zheng -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Stefan Kozlov vs. Michael Zheng
This will be the 2nd time that Stefan Kozlov and Michael Zheng fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kozlov (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Kozlov won 7-5 6-3 in the qualifications in the Charleston Challenger back in 2023.
Stefan Kozlov
28 - 14win/loss
349
103
LWLWWLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-19 | 16-9 | 17-8 | 4-2 | 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. 442, Stefan got to the 1st round after beating Nicholas Herdoiza 6-3 6-1 and William Grant 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, Stefan had a good straight sets win against Grant (6-1 6-4). During the match, Kozlov scored 58 points vs Grant’s 37. Stefan was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kozlov couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 2 double faults. Stefan Kozlov lost the serve once. Furthermore, Kozlov put 67% of his first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 76% (13/17) on the 2nd serve. Stefan broke Grant 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kozlov started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 63% of the points he played.
Kozlov has positive record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (276-219). 7-5 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Kozlov has a composed 125-111 match record in the last years on hard.
Kozlov’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Kigali 1 Challenger and the Tallahassee Challenger.
Stefan has a compiled 27-14 win-loss record in 2024, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger
Stefan has never competed in this tournament before.
Michael Zheng
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-6 | 9-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 13-11 | 13-10 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 11-6 | 2-1 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 7-5 | 1-1 | 3-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 554, the American will start his run in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger after he played his last match in the Blois Challenger where he lost 7-6(3) 7-6(4) to Bax in the qualifications on the 18th of June.
The American has a compiled 0-1 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
In terms of his career, Michael has an overall 31-23 record. He has a positive 16-12 record on hard.
Previously in the Bloomfield Hills Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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