Jozef Kovalik and Martin Klizan will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Lisbon Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:00 am on ESTADIO CIF. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jozef Kovalik who should win in 3 sets.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.65
Martin Klizan -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Martin Klizan
This will be the 3rd time that Jozef Kovalik and Martin Klizan square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Kovalik and Klizan (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kovalik won 4-6 6-4 6-2 in the 2nd round in the Bratislava 1 Challenger back in June 2024.
Jozef Kovalik
33 - 21win/loss
127
80
| 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. 123,he will start his run in the Lisbon Challenger after he played his last match in Davis Cup, Group C, Zhuhai where he overcame 6-4 6-7(5) 6-1 to Tabilo in the Rubber 2 on the 15th of September.
The Slovakian has a compiled 33-21 win-loss record in 2024, 29-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Zadar Challenger where he beat Adrian Andreev in the final 6-4 6-2 and the Split Challenger where he defeated Zsombor Piros in the final 6-4 5-7 7-5 and the Karlsruhe Challenger where he overcame Camilo Ugo Carabelli in the final 6-3 7-6(2).
Talking about his overall career, Jozef has an overall 498-366 record. He has a positive 382-234 record on clay.
Previously in the Lisbon Challenger
The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.
Martin Klizan
48 - 15win/loss
291
24
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 52-22 | 15-4 | 35-14 | 2-4 | 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. 311, Klizan reached the 1st round after defeating Goncalo Falcao 6-1 6-0 and Carlos Taberner 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Taberner (6-3 7-5). During the match Klizan scored 76 points vs Taberner’s 64. Klizan was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Klizan scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Martin Klizan lost the serve 4 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Klizan put 65% of his first serves in, winning 58% (28/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Klizan broke Taberner 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 hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 60% of the points he played.
Klizan’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Heraklion,M15 Telde,M25 Valldoreix and M25 Reggio Emilia.
The Slovakian has an aggregate 48-15 win-loss record in 2024, 35-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Lisbon Challenger
- Raphael CollignonCollignon – Gastao EliasElias (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – Arthur GeaGea (7-5 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Duarte ValeVale (7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas Barrios VeraBarrios Vera – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (4-6 6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Martin KlizanKlizan – Jozef KovalikKovalik (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dennis NovakNovak – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Giovanni FonioFonio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sandro KoppKopp – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Clement TaburTabur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Enrico Dalla ValleDalla Valle (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – (0-0) – H2H and prediction