Borna Coric and Milos Karol will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Lyon Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Borna Coric who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Borna Coric is the pick to win this match.
Borna Coric -> 1.25
Milos Karol -> 3.64

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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Milos Karol

There is no head to head record between Borna Coric and Milos Karol since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Borna Coric

Borna Coric

21 - 25win/loss

Hard

8-13

I Hard

9-4

Clay

3-7

Grass

1-1

Rank
90

High
12

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	23-27	8-13	3-7	11-6	1-1	0-0
2023	22-19	10-10	9-5	3-1	0-3	0-0
2022	27-17	10-5	10-9	7-3	0-0	0-0
2021	6-3	3-2	0-0	3-1	0-0	0-0
2020	16-12	6-5	4-4	6-3	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 97, Coric got to the 2^nd round after defeating August Holmgren 6-7(1) 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round against Holmgren, The Croatian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7¹ 6-3 6-4). During the match, Coric scored 106 points vs Holmgren’s 99. Coric was exceptionally aggressive to blast 54 winners.

Talking about the service games, Coric recorded 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Borna Coric conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 10 break points. Furthermore, Coric put 61% of his first serves in, winning 87% (54/62) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (19/39) on the 2nd serve. Borna broke Holmgren twice after converting 20% of his break points (2/10).

Coric has favorable record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (245-202). 9-4 on indoor hard courts in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Coric has an aggregate 45-35 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.

Coric’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Neuve Challenger and Montpellier.

Borna has a compiled 21-25 win-loss record in 2024, 9-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Lyon Challenger

Coric has never competed in this tournament before.

Lyon Challenger

Coric's Record

Milos Karol

Milos Karol

52 - 28win/loss

Hard

8-5

I Hard

23-5

Clay

21-17

Carpet

0-1

Rank
423

High
419

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	53-31	8-5	21-17	24-8	0-0	0-1
2023	28-27	3-2	11-13	13-11	0-0	1-1
2022	6-24	3-5	1-15	2-4	0-0	0-0
2021	22-18	0-0	10-11	10-6	0-0	2-1
2020	1-2	0-0	0-0	1-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 439 (career-high), Karol reached the 2^nd round after beating Ricardas Berankis 6-4 6-4, Kilian Feldbausch 5-7 7-6(2) 6-3 and Stefano Travaglia 7-5 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Karol had a good straight sets win against Travaglia (7-5 6-3). During the match Karol scored 79 points vs Travaglia’s 65. The Slovakian was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.

About the serving games, Karol struck 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Milos Karol lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Karol put 63% of his first serves in, winning 81% (34/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (10/25) on the 2nd serve. Milos broke Travaglia 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).

Milos’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Vienna,M15 Pardubice,M15 Trnava and M25 Trnava.

The Slovakian has an overall 52-28 win-loss record in 2024, 23-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Lyon Challenger

Karol's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Coric played 1 match while Karol competed in 3 matches. Karol started his run from the qualifications while Coric had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Borna Coric surrendered 1 set, while Milos Karol conceded 1 set. Coric has played 4 set(s) less than Karol (3 vs 7). Therefore, Coric played 43 games less than Karol. The Croatian scored 54 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, Milos managed to score 121 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Coric struck 6 aces . Karol recorded 28 aces (9.3 per match). Coric won 87% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Karol won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

The Croatian broke his opponent twice with a 20% conversion rate. Coric quite strong on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 10 break points. The Slovakian broke his opponents 12 times with a 36% conversion rate. Karol conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Borna
Coric

1:0

Milos
Karol

Rank

90

High

12

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Rank

423

High

419

Win Loss

Coric

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2024 2023 2022

23 - 27

53 - 31

8-13

Hard

8-5

11-6

I Hard

24-8

3-7

Clay

21-17

1-1

Grass

0-0

Tennis Scores in Lyon Challenger

• Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Hugo GrenierGrenier (2-6 7-6¹ 6-3) – See score progression
• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Henri SquireSquire – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (7-6³ 3-6 7-6²) – See score progression
• Calvin HemeryHemery – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (3-6 7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Joao FonsecaFonseca – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Milos KarolKarol – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Tom ParisParis (6-7⁶ 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Borna CoricCoric – August HolmgrenHolmgren (6-7¹ 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Jiri Barnat/Matej VocelBarnat/Matej Vocel – Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli/Francisco CabralChoudary Bollipalli/Francisco Cabral (7-6³ 2-6 10-3) – See score progression
• Loann MassardMassard – Abedallah ShelbayhShelbayh (6-4 6-7² 6-3) – See score progression
• Harold MayotMayot – Dino PrizmicPrizmic (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-3 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Gianluca MagerMager (6-3 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Raphael CollignonCollignon – Titouan DroguetDroguet (4-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Borna CoricCoric – August HolmgrenHolmgren (6-7(1) 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Milos KarolKarol – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Henri SquireSquire – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (7-6(3) 3-6 7-6(2)) – See score progression
• Adrian AndreevAndreev – Tom ParisParis (6-7(6) 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Alexis GautierGautier (7-6(5) 7-5) – See score progression
• Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Joao FonsecaFonseca – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Hugo GrenierGrenier (2-6 7-6(1) 6-3) – See score progression
• Calvin HemeryHemery – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (3-6 7-5 7-6(5)) – See score progression
• Ugo BlanchetBlanchet – Luca NardiNardi (6-4 7-6(5)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Borna CoricCoric – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko – Calvin HemeryHemery (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Henri SquireSquire – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Adrian AndreevAndreev (1-1) – H2H and prediction

Coric

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