Brandon Holt and Dalibor Svrcina will square off in the final of the Pune Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Brandon Holt who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Brandon Holt is the pick to win this match.
Brandon Holt -> 1.83
Dalibor Svrcina -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Brandon Holt vs. Dalibor Svrcina

There is no head to head record between Brandon Holt and Dalibor Svrcina since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Brandon Holt

Ranked no. 153 (career-high), the American got to the final after defeating Aryan Shah 6-2 6-2, Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg 6-4 6-4, Billy Harris 4-6 6-3 6-4 and Alexis Galarneau 7-5 6-4.

In the semifinal, Brandon had a good straight sets win against Galarneau (7-5 6-4). During the match, Holt scored 70 points vs Galarneau’s 59. The American was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Holt fired 6 aces and he was exceptionally steady in conceding no double faults. Brandon Holt lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Holt put 82% of his first serves in, winning 63% (31/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (7/11) on the 2nd serve. Brandon broke Galarneau 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Brandon has dropped 1 set in this competition to win 56% of the points he played.

Holt has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (192-120). 14-3 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Holt has an aggregate 166-96 record in the last years on hard.

His best result of the current season was conquering the title the Nonthaburi 3 Challenger where he overcame Vit Kopriva in the final 6-3 6-2.

Holt has an overall 17-4 win-loss record in 2025, 14-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Pune Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Dalibor Svrcina

Ranked no. 219, Svrcina got to the final after defeating August Holmgren 4-6 6-3 7-5

, Jurij Rodionov 6-4 7-5, Ilia Simakin 6-1 6-3 and Khumoun Sultanov 6-7(8) 6-0 3-1 ret..

In the semifinal against Sultanov, Svrcina had a free pass after Sultanov retired on a 6-7⁸ 6-0 3-1 . scoreline.

The Czech’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Chennai Challenger and the Pune Challenger.

The Czech has a composed 13-6 win-loss record in 2025, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in the Pune Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Holt	Svrcina
Match played	4	4
Tot Set	9	11
Tot Games	87	92
Pts	291-228	337-269
Total Points	519	606
Winners	130	146
%Winners	45%	43%

Both Holt and Svrcina played 4 matches. Both players lost a set in the event. Brandon Holt conceded 1 set, while Dalibor Svrcina lost 2 sets. Holt has played 2 set(s) less than Svrcina (9 vs 11). Therefore, Holt played 5 games less than Svrcina. Holt scored 130 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Svrcina managed to score 146 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Holt	Svrcina
Aces	18	13
Avg per match	4.5	3.3
1st in	185/251	204/291
%1st in	74%	70%
1st pts	130/185	146/204
%1st pts	70%	72%
2nd pts	38/66	50/87
%2nd pts	58%	57%

Holt blasted 18 aces (4.5 per match). Svrcina fired 13 aces (3.3 per match). Holt won 70% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Svrcina won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Holt	Svrcina
Won	17	17
Converted	17/29	17/42
% Converted	59%	40%
Conceded	18	27
Saved	10	21
% Saved	56%	78%
Times Broken	8	6

Holt broke his opponents 17 times with a 59% conversion rate. Holt conceded his serve 8 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. Dalibor broke his opponents 17 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.

Holt
	R1 Shah	R2 Gueymard	1/4 Harris	1/2 Galarneau	Total
Score	6-2 6-2	6-4 6-4	4-6 6-3 6-4	7-5 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	3	2	9
Tot Games	16	20	29	22	87
pts	62-34	68-55	91-80	70-59	291-228
Total points	96	123	171	129	519
Winners	20	34	45	31	130
%Winners	32%	50%	49%	44%	45%
SERVE
Aces	3	4	5	6	18
Double Faults	0	0	0	0	0
1st in	25/39	48/70	63/82	49/60	185/251
% 1st in	64%	69%	77%	82%	74%
1st pts	20/25	34/48	45/63	31/49	130/185
% 1st pts	80%	71%	71%	63%	70%
2nd pts	12/14	12/22	7/19	7/11	38/66
% 2nd pts	86%	55%	37%	64%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	3	5	5	17
Converted	4/4	3/4	5/11	5/10	17/29
Converted %	100%	75%	45%	50%	59%
Conceded	0	4	6	8	18
Saved	0/0	3/4	2/6	5/8	10
Saved %	–	75%	33%	63%	43%
Times Broken	0	1	4	3	8

Svrcina
	R1 Holmgren	R2 Rodionov	1/4 Simakin	1/2 Sultanov	Total
Score	4-6 6-3 7-5	6-4 7-5	6-1 6-3	6-78 6-0 3-1 ret.
Tot Set	3	2	2	3	10
Tot Games	31	22	16	23	92
pts	111-98	73-64	59-38	94-69	337-269
Total points	209	137	97	163	606
Winners	50	36	22	38	146
%Winners	45%	49%	37%	40%	43%
SERVE
Aces	4	3	0	6	13
Double Faults	1	1	2	1	5
1st in	73/95	50/71	30/50	51/75	204/291
% 1st in	77%	70%	60%	68%	70%
1st pts	50/73	36/50	22/30	38/51	146/204
% 1st pts	68%	72%	73%	75%	72%
2nd pts	12/22	13/21	11/20	14/24	50/87
% 2nd pts	55%	62%	55%	58%	57%
Breaks
Won	4	3	5	5	17
Converted	4/17	3/6	5/10	5/9	17/42
Converted %	24%	50%	50%	56%	40%
Conceded	10	7	3	7	27
Saved	7/10	6/7	2/3	6/7	21
Saved %	70%	86%	67%	86%	77%
Times Broken	3	1	1	1	6

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