Martin Klizan and Mili Poljicak will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Genova Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on CAMPO CENTRALE. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Martin Klizan who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Martin Klizan is the pick to win this match.
Martin Klizan -> 1.73
Mili Poljicak -> 2.03

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Prediction and head to head Martin Klizan vs. Mili Poljicak

There is no head to head record between Martin Klizan and Mili Poljicak since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Martin Klizan

Ranked no. 325, Klizan got to the 2^nd round after beating Gianluca Mager 7-5 7-6(4).

In the 1^st round, Klizan had a good straight sets win against Mager (7-5 7-6⁴). During the match, Klizan scored 80 points vs Mager’s 78. Martin was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Regarding the service games, Klizan made 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Martin Klizan was quite efficient on serve to win 72% (36/50) of his 1st serve and 67% (18/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Slovakian broke Mager twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Klizan has good match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (212-152). 33-10 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Klizan has a compiled 132-76 match record in the last years on clay.

The Slovakian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Heraklion,M15 Telde,M25 Valldoreix and M25 Reggio Emilia.

Martin has a compiled 46-13 win-loss record in 2024, 33-10 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Genova Challenger

Martin has never competed in this tournament before.

Mili Poljicak

Ranked no. 409 (career-high), the Croatian reached the 2^nd round after defeating Vladimir Uzhylovsky 6-4 2-1 ret., Giovanni Oradini 6-3 6-4 and Andrea Pellegrino 7-5 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Poljicak had a good straight sets win against Pellegrino (7-5 6-2). During the match Poljicak scored 80 points vs Pellegrino’s 60. Mili was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Poljicak bagged 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Mili Poljicak was extremely effective on serve to win 92% (24/26) of his 1st serve and 54% (15/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Poljicak broke Pellegrino 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).

Mili’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Osijek,M15 Doboj,M15 Monastir,M15 Umag and M25 Maribor.

Poljicak has an aggregate 57-18 win-loss record in 2024, 43-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Klizan	Poljicak
Match played	1	3
Tot Set	2	7
Tot Games	25	52
Pts	80-78	194-153
Total Points	158	347
Winners	36	73
%Winners	45%	38%

Klizan played 1 match while Poljicak competed in 3 matches. Poljicak started his run from the qualifications while Klizan had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Klizan has played 5 set(s) less than Poljicak (2 vs 7). Therefore, Klizan played 27 games less than Poljicak. The Slovakian scored 36 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian fired 73 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Klizan	Poljicak
Aces	7	29
Avg per match	7	9.7
1st in	50/77	79/155
%1st in	65%	51%
1st pts	36/50	73/79
%1st pts	72%	92%
2nd pts	18/27	39/76
%2nd pts	67%	51%

Klizan made 7 aces . Poljicak bagged 29 aces (9.7 per match). Klizan won 72% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 67% of the points. On the other side, Poljicak won 92% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Klizan	Poljicak
Won	2	8
Converted	2/10	8/32
% Converted	20%	25%
Conceded	3	6
Saved	2	4
% Saved	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	2

The Slovakian broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Klizan dropped his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. The Croatian broke his opponents 8 times with a 25% conversion rate. Poljicak conceded his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Klizan
	R1 Mager	Total
Score	7-5 7-64
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	25
pts	80-78	80-78
Total points	158	158
Winners	36	36
%Winners	45%	45%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	50/77	50/77
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	36/50	36/50
% 1st pts	72%	72%
2nd pts	18/27	18/27
% 2nd pts	67%	67%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/10	2/10
Converted %	20%	20%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Poljicak
	Q1 Uzhylovsky	Q3 Oradini	R1 Pellegrino	Total
Score	6-4 2-1 ret.	6-3 6-4	7-5 6-2
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	13	19	20	52
pts	45-33	69-60	80-60	194-153
Total points	78	129	140	347
Winners	20	29	24	73
%Winners	44%	42%	30%	38%
SERVE
Aces	9	10	10	29
Double Faults	1	2	2	5
1st in	22/33	31/68	26/54	79/155
% 1st in	67%	46%	48%	51%
1st pts	20/22	29/31	24/26	73/79
% 1st pts	91%	94%	92%	92%
2nd pts	8/11	16/37	15/28	39/76
% 2nd pts	73%	43%	54%	51%
Breaks
Won	1	3	4	8
Converted	1/7	3/10	4/15	8/32
Converted %	14%	30%	27%	25%
Conceded	0	4	2	6
Saved	0/0	3/4	1/2	4
Saved %	–	75%	50%	125%
Times Broken	0	1	1	2

Tennis Scores in Genova Challenger

• Francesco PassaroPassaro – Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi (6-7⁵ 7-6¹⁰ 6-2) – See score progression
• Giovanni FonioFonio – Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano (6-4 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Andrea PicchionePicchione – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
• Kilian FeldbauschFeldbausch – Federico BondioliBondioli (6-2 4-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Ignacio BuseBuse – Jacopo BerrettiniBerrettini (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Kei NishikoriNishikori – Matthew DellavedovaDellavedova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – Moez EcharguiEchargui (1-6 4-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (7-5 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Samuel Vincent RuggeriVincent Ruggeri (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Martin KlizanKlizan – Gianluca MagerMager (7-5 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Mili PoljicakPoljicak – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Gabriel DebruDebru (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Dmitry PopkoPopko (7-5 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
• Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso (4-6 7-5 6-1) – See score progression
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (4-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Gonzalo BuenoBueno – Alexander WeisWeis (7-5 7-6⁶) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Kei NishikoriNishikori – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Martin KlizanKlizan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jaume Antoni Munar ClarAntoni Munar Clar – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Benjamin HassanHassan – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Giovanni FonioFonio – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Francesco PassaroPassaro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Andrea PicchionePicchione – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction