Rudolf Molleker and Stefan Palosi will play each other in the 1st round of the Sibiu Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT CENTRE. 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 Rudolf Molleker who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rudolf Molleker is the pick to win this match.
Rudolf Molleker -> 1.38
Stefan Palosi -> 2.89
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Prediction and head to head Rudolf Molleker vs. Stefan Palosi
There is no head to head record between Rudolf Molleker and Stefan Palosi since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Rudolf Molleker
26 - 28win/loss
269
146
LLLLLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-34 | 4-8 | 15-18 | 7-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-7 | 0-1 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 238, Rudolf will start his run in the Sibiu Challenger after he played his last match in the Szczecin Challenger where he lost 5-7 7-5 6-4 to Campana in the quarter on the 13th of September.
The German has an aggregate 26-28 win-loss record in 2024, 13-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Molleker’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in the Lugano Challenger and the Tulln Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Molleker has an overall 229-200 record. He has a positive 168-122 record on clay.
Previously in the Sibiu Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2022. See his history.
Stefan Palosi
48 - 20win/loss
496
420
LWWLLLWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-26 | 15-8 | 36-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-16 | 3-2 | 15-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-23 | 2-4 | 37-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-20 | 0-1 | 38-18 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-11 | 10-7 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 510, Stefan got to the 1st round after defeating Joao Eduardo Schiessl 6-4 0-6 6-4 and Eric Vanshelboim 6-1 6-0.
In the qualifications, Palosi had a good straight sets win against Vanshelboim (6-1 6-0). During the match Palosi scored 56 points vs Vanshelboim’s 24. Palosi was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Palosi managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Stefan Palosi was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 58% (7/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Romanian broke Vanshelboim 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Romanian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Stefan’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Larnaca and M15 Bucharest.
Palosi has a compiled 48-20 win-loss record in 2024, 36-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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