Joel Schwaerzler and Zdenek Kolar will square off in the 1^st round of the Kigali 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zdenek Kolar who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Zdenek Kolar is the pick to win this match.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.71
Joel Schwaerzler -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Joel Schwaerzler vs. Zdenek Kolar

There is no head to head record between Joel Schwaerzler and Zdenek Kolar since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Joel Schwaerzler

Ranked no. 312, the Austrian will start his run in the Kigali 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Rosario Challenger where he lost 4-6 6-3 6-4 to Coria in the 1^st round on the 4^th of February.

Schwaerzler has a composed 6-4 win-loss record in 2025, 6-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, Schwaerzler has an overall 37-36 record. He has a positive 32-27 record on clay.

Previously in the Kigali 1 Challenger

The Austrian has never competed in this tournament before.

Zdenek Kolar

Ranked no. 385, Zdenek reached the 1^st round after defeating Paulo Andre Saraiva Dos Santos 6-3 6-2 and Adrian Oetzbach 6-3 6-0.

In the qualifications, Kolar had a good straight sets win against Oetzbach (6-3 6-0). During the match Kolar scored 60 points vs Oetzbach’s 33. Zdenek was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.

About the serving games, Kolar scored 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Zdenek Kolar was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (24/31) of his 1st serve and 82% (9/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech broke Oetzbach 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kolar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 62% of the points he played.

Kolar’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Antalya.

The Czech has a composed 14-3 win-loss record in 2025, 11-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Kigali 1 Challenger

• Valentin RoyerRoyer – Maxime ChazalChazal (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Gabriele PennafortiPennaforti (4-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos TabernerTaberner – Andrea PicchionePicchione (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Max HoukesHoukes – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Calvin HemeryHemery – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Manuel GuinardGuinard – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Zdenek KolarKolar – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clement TaburTabur – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alex Marti PujolrasMarti Pujolras – Dominik KellovskyKellovsky (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Luka PavlovicPavlovic – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Jesper De JongDe Jong – Andrej MartinMartin (1-1) – H2H and prediction