Luca Van Assche and Jozef Kovalik will square off in the 1st round of the Bratislava 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Luca Van Assche who should win in 2 sets.
Luca Van Assche -> 1.3
Jozef Kovalik -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Luca Van Assche vs. Jozef Kovalik
There is no head to head record
between Luca Van Assche and Jozef Kovalik since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.Luca Van Assche
33 - 33win/loss
128
63
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 33-36 | 15-15 | 8-10 | 8-9 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-30 | 1-7 | 15-11 | 15-9 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 55-31 | 0-1 | 40-20 | 15-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-22 | 3-2 | 8-7 | 15-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 6-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 114, the French player will start his run in the Bratislava 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Brest Challenger where he lost 7-6(1) 6-4 to Virtanen in the quarter on the 25th of October.
Luca has an overall 33-33 win-loss record in 2024, 8-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The French player best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Phoenix Challenger,the Heilbronn Challenger and the Roanne Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The French player has an overall 155-120 record. He has a positive 54-40 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Bratislava 2 Challenger
The French player has never competed in this tournament before.
Jozef Kovalik
34 - 23win/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. 128, Jozef will start his run in the Bratislava 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Braga Challenger where he lost 4-3 ret. to Tabur in the 1st round on the 2nd of October.
The Slovakian has an overall 34-23 win-loss record in 2024, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Zadar Challenger where he overcame 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).
In terms of his career, Jozef has an overall 499-368 record. He has a negative 22-40 record on indoor hard courts.
Tennis Scores in Bratislava 2 Challenger
- Jacob FearnleyFearnley – Lukas PokornyPokorny (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Constant LestienneLestienne – Laslo DjereDjere (3-6 7-65 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jozef KovalikKovalik – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Kei NishikoriNishikori (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Alexander RitschardRitschard (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Gabriel DialloDiallo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Otto VirtanenVirtanen – Lukas KleinKlein (0-3) – H2H and prediction