Borna Coric and Aziz Dougaz will face off in the quarter of the Thionville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 2:30 pm on COURT CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.131
Aziz Dougaz -> 5.25
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Prediction and head to head Borna Coric vs. Aziz Dougaz
There is no head to head record between Borna Coric and Aziz Dougaz since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Borna Coric
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-7 | 1-2 | 10-3 | 10-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 120, Borna reached the quarter after beating Paul Jubb 6-2 6-1 and Emil Ruusuvuori 6-2 2-2 ret..
In the 2nd round against Ruusuvuori, Borna had a free pass after Ruusuvuori retired on a 6-2 2-2 . scoreline.
Coric has good match record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (220-178). 7-2 on indoor hard courts in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Coric has a composed 52-33 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the year was winning the title the Lugano Challenger where he overcame Raphael Collignon in the final 6-3 6-1.
Borna has a composed 8-4 win-loss record in 2025, 7-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Thionville Challenger
The Croatian has never competed in this tournament before.
Aziz Dougaz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-15 | 10-12 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 49-31 | 17-14 | 25-12 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-38 | 28-17 | 9-10 | 10-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 68-33 | 53-23 | 7-4 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-29 | 38-17 | 8-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 210, Aziz reached the quarter after defeating Yuta Shimizu 6-4 6-3 and Tom Paris 6-3 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Dougaz had a good straight sets win against Paris (6-3 6-4). During the match Dougaz scored 70 points vs Paris’s 55. Aziz was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Dougaz recorded 2 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Aziz Dougaz was pretty effective on serve to win 80% (28/35) of his 1st serve and 61% (19/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Dougaz broke Paris twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dougaz hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Aziz has a composed 6-9 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Coric | Dougaz |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 5 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 38 |
| Pts | 111-76 | 133-107 |
| Total Points | 187 | 240 |
| Winners | 38 | 56 |
| %Winners | 34% | 42% |
Both Coric and Dougaz played 2 matches. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Coric has played 1 set more than Dougaz (5 vs 4). However, it’s interesting to notice that Coric played 11 games less than Dougaz. Coric scored 38 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Dougaz fired 56 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Coric | Dougaz |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 1.5 | 6 |
| 1st in | 48/81 | 74/128 |
| %1st in | 59% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 38/48 | 56/74 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 21/33 | 28/54 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 52% |
Coric scored 3 aces (1.5 per match). Dougaz struck 12 aces (6 per match). Coric won 79% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Dougaz won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Coric | Dougaz |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 6 |
| Converted | 6/20 | 6/14 |
| % Converted | 30% | 43% |
| Conceded | 1 | 8 |
| Saved | 1 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
Borna broke his opponents 6 times with a 30% conversion rate. The Croatian very solid his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. Dougaz broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. The Tunisian conceded his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Coric | ||||
| R1 Jubb |
R2 Ruusuvuori |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 6-2 2-2 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 12 | 27 | |
| pts | 57-31 | 54-45 | 111-76 | |
| Total points | 88 | 99 | 187 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 35% | 34% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 24/46 | 24/35 | 48/81 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 69% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 19/24 | 19/24 | 38/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/22 | 6/11 | 21/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 55% | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 2/13 | 6/20 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 15% | 30% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | – | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dougaz | ||||
| R1 Shimizu |
R2 Paris |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | 38 | |
| pts | 63-52 | 70-55 | 133-107 | |
| Total points | 115 | 125 | 240 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | 56 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 40% | 42% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 10 | 2 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | 12 | |
| 1st in | 39/62 | 35/66 | 74/128 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 53% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 28/39 | 28/35 | 56/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 80% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/23 | 19/31 | 28/54 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 61% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 2/7 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 29% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 4/4 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 100% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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