Zdenek Kolar and Yanki Erel will square off in the qualifications of the Kigali 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:45 pm on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zdenek Kolar who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Zdenek Kolar is the pick to win this match.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.26
Yanki Erel -> 3.55
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Yanki Erel
There is no head to head record between Zdenek Kolar and Yanki Erel since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Zdenek Kolar
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17-6 | 3-2 | 14-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-23 | 1-2 | 11-12 | 16-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-35 | 6-8 | 19-19 | 9-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-36 | 1-6 | 17-24 | 3-3 | 2-2 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 41-32 | 1-4 | 34-19 | 5-8 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 382, Zdenek got to the qualifications after defeating Axel Herberg 6-0 6-0.
In the qualifications, Zdenek had a good straight sets win against Herberg (6-0 6-0). During the match, Kolar scored 52 points vs Herberg’s 15. The Czech was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kolar scored 2 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Zdenek Kolar was extremely effective on serve to win 79% (19/24) of his 1st serve and 100% (5/5) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kolar broke Herberg 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Kolar has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (346-278). 12-2 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kolar has a composed 234-164 record in the last years on clay.
Kolar’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Antalya.
The Czech has a compiled 15-4 win-loss record in 2025, 12-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kigali 2 Challenger
The Czech has never competed in this tournament before.
Yanki Erel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-2 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-28 | 27-20 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-25 | 44-18 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 27-14 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-19 | 20-7 | 11-11 | 14-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 606, the Turk got to the qualifications after beating Alexander Donski 7-6(3) 6-3.
In the qualifications, Yanki had a good straight sets win against Donski (7-63 6-3). During the match Erel scored 80 points vs Donski’s 61. Yanki was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Erel bagged 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Yanki Erel was quite efficient on serve to win 79% (42/53) of his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Turk was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Donski twice.
Yanki has an aggregate 2-1 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kolar | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 12 | 22 |
| Pts | 52-15 | 80-61 |
| Total Points | 67 | 141 |
| Winners | 19 | 42 |
| %Winners | 37% | 53% |
Both Kolar and Erel played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kolar and Erel have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kolar played 10 games less than Erel. Zdenek scored 19 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Yanki fired 42 winners (53%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kolar | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 5 |
| 1st in | 24/29 | 53/72 |
| %1st in | 83% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 42/53 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 5/5 | 10/19 |
| %2nd pts | 100% | 53% |
Kolar struck 2 aces . Erel made 5 aces . Kolar won 79% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 100% of the points. On the other side, Erel won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kolar | Erel |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 2 |
| Converted | 6/10 | 2/2 |
| % Converted | 60% | 100% |
| Conceded | 0 | 7 |
| Saved | 0 | 6 |
| % Saved | 0% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Czech broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Kolar pretty solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Yanki broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Erel conceded his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kolar | |||
| Q1 Herberg |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 12 | |
| pts | 52-15 | 52-15 | |
| Total points | 67 | 67 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 24/29 | 24/29 | |
| % 1st in | 83% | 83% | |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 19/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| % 2nd pts | 100% | 100% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Erel | |||
| Q1 Donski |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 80-61 | 80-61 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 42 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 53/72 | 53/72 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 42/53 | 42/53 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/19 | 10/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 2/2 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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