Milos Karol and Lukas Pokorny will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Nottingham Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 4. 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 Lukas Pokorny who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Lukas Pokorny is the pick to win this match.
Lukas Pokorny -> 1.86
Milos Karol -> 1.86

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Prediction and head to head Milos Karol vs. Lukas Pokorny

This will be the 5th time that Milos Karol and Lukas Pokorny play each other. The head to head is 4-0 for Pokorny (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they competed against each other, Pokorny won 7-6(2) 6-2 in the final in M15 Trnava back in 2024.

Milos Karol

Milos Karol

1 - 0win/loss

Rank
421
High
419
W
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0
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
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Ranked no. 421, Karol reached the 2nd round after defeating Patrick Zahraj 6-4 7-6(3).

In the 1st round, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Zahraj (6-4 7-63). During the match, Karol scored 70 points vs Zahraj’s 60. Karol was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.

Talking about the service games, Karol blasted 16 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Milos Karol was very effective on serve to win 82% (32/39) of his 1st serve and 75% (18/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Slovakian broke Zahraj once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).

Karol has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 52% of his matches (112-103). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Karol has an overall51-31 match record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

Karol has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Nottingham Challenger

The Slovakian has never competed in this tournament before.

Nottingham Challenger
Karol's Record

Lukas Pokorny

Lukas Pokorny

3 - 0win/loss

Rank
514
High
460
WWW
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 3-0 0-0 0-0 3-0 0-0 0-0
2024 34-26 20-13 8-6 6-7 0-0 0-0
2023 36-26 21-13 4-7 10-5 0-0 1-1
2022 36-27 22-9 12-13 2-5 0-0 0-0
2021 24-20 12-4 8-11 2-4 0-0 2-1
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Ranked no. 514, the Slovakian reached the 2nd round after defeating Lui Maxted 6-2 6-4, Harry Wendelken 6-1 6-4 and Abedallah Shelbayh 7-5 6-2.

In the 1st round, The Slovakian had a good straight sets win against Shelbayh (7-5 6-2). During the match Pokorny scored 66 points vs Shelbayh’s 50. The Slovakian was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Pokorny recorded 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Lukas Pokorny was quite effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Slovakian broke Shelbayh 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Pokorny has a composed 3-0 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Nottingham Challenger
Pokorny's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

M.Karol
L.Pokorny
1h:21
1h:21
Time on court​
!
3h:33
3h:33
1h:21
1h:21
Last match​
1h:23
1h:23
1
1
Match played
!
3
3
23
23
Games Played​
55
55
2
2
Set played​​
6
6
70
70
Total points​
186
186
70
70
Avg point​
62
62
32
32
Winners
86
86
32
32
Avg Winners​
28.7
28.7
46%
46%
Ratio winners
46%
46%
-- Serve --
16
16
Aces
30
30
!
16
16
Avg Aces
10
10
3
3
Double Faults
5
5
3
3
Avg Double Faults
1.7
1.7
32/39
32/39
1st won total​
86/99
86/99
!
82%
82%
1st won %
!
87%
87%
18/24
18/24
2nd won total​
29/58
29/58
!
75%
75%
2nd won %
50%
50%
-- Break Points --
1/2
1/2
BP won
10/17
10/17
1/2
1/2
Avg BP won
3.3/5.7
3.3/5.7
50%
50%
Won
!
59%
59%
1
1
Conceded
7
7
1
1
Avg Conceded
2.3
2.3
0
0
Broken
1
1
!
0
0
Avg Broken
!
0.3
0.3
1
1
Saved
6
6
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Karol Pokorny
Match played 1 3
Tot Set 2 6
Tot Games 23 55
Pts 70-60 186-136
Total Points 130 322
Winners 32 86
%Winners 46% 46%

Karol played 1 match while Pokorny competed in 3 matches. Pokorny started his run from the qualifications while Karol had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Karol has played 4 set(s) less than Pokorny (2 vs 6). Therefore, Karol played 32 games less than Pokorny. Karol scored 32 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Pokorny fired 86 winners (46%).

Serve Performance

Serve Karol Pokorny
Aces 16 30
Avg per match 16 10
1st in 39/63 99/157
%1st in 62% 63%
1st pts 32/39 86/99
%1st pts 82% 87%
2nd pts 18/24 29/58
%2nd pts 75% 50%

Karol fired 16 aces . Pokorny fired 30 aces (10 per match). Karol won 82% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Pokorny won 87% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Karol Pokorny
Won 1 10
Converted 1/2 10/17
% Converted 50% 59%
Conceded 1 7
Saved 1 6
% Saved 100% 86%
Times Broken 0 1

Karol broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. The Slovakian was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. Pokorny broke his opponents 10 times with a 59% conversion rate. Lukas conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.

Karol
R1
Zahraj		 Total
Score 6-4 7-63
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 23
pts 70-60 70-60
Total points 130 130
Winners 32 32
%Winners 46% 46%
SERVE
Aces 16 16
Double Faults 3 3
1st in 39/63 39/63
% 1st in 62% 62%
1st pts 32/39 32/39
% 1st pts 82% 82%
2nd pts 18/24 18/24
% 2nd pts 75% 75%
Breaks
Won 1 1
Converted 1/2 1/2
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 1/1 1
Saved % 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0
Pokorny
Q1
Maxted		 Q3
Wendelken		 R1
Shelbayh		 Total
Score 6-2 6-4 6-1 6-4 7-5 6-2
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 18 17 20 55
pts 56-44 64-42 66-50 186-136
Total points 100 106 116 322
Winners 28 30 28 86
%Winners 50% 47% 42% 46%
SERVE
Aces 10 13 7 30
Double Faults 2 1 2 5
1st in 32/48 31/52 36/57 99/157
% 1st in 67% 60% 63% 63%
1st pts 28/32 30/31 28/36 86/99
% 1st pts 88% 97% 78% 87%
2nd pts 8/16 9/21 12/21 29/58
% 2nd pts 50% 43% 57% 50%
Breaks
Won 3 3 4 10
Converted 3/5 3/7 4/5 10/17
Converted % 60% 43% 80% 59%
Conceded 0 3 4 7
Saved 0/0 3/3 3/4 6
Saved % – 100% 75% 175%
Times Broken 0 0 1 1

Tennis Scores in Nottingham Challenger

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