Jan Klimas and Max Houkes will play each other in the qualifications of the Ostrava Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 10:30 am 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 Max Houkes who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Max Houkes is the pick to win this match.
Max Houkes -> 1.017
Jan Klimas -> 11

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Prediction and head to head Jan Klimas vs. Max Houkes

There is no head to head record between Jan Klimas and Max Houkes since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Jan Klimas

Currently unranked, the Czech got to the qualifications after defeating Daniel Michalski 2-1 ret..

In the qualifications against Michalski, Jan had a free pass after Michalski retired on a 2-1 . scoreline.

Klimas has a negative match record in the last 2 years having won 40% of his matches (2-3). 1-0 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Klimas has an overall1-0 record in the last 2 years on clay.

The Czech has a composed 1-0 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Ostrava Challenger

Jan has never competed in this tournament before.

Max Houkes

Ranked no. 249 (career-high), Houkes reached the qualifications after beating Jiri Cizek 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, The Dutch had a good straight sets win against Cizek (6-4 6-3). During the match Houkes scored 74 points vs Cizek’s 57. Max was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about serving, Houkes bagged 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Max Houkes lost the serve 4 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Houkes put 69% of his first serves in, winning 63% (26/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (8/18) on the 2nd serve. Houkes broke Cizek 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).

Max’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.

Houkes has an overall 20-11 win-loss record in 2025, 20-10 on clay (See FULL STATS)

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H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Klimas	Houkes
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	3	19
Pts	13-7	74-57
Total Points	20	131
Winners	3	26
%Winners	23%	35%

Both Klimas and Houkes 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, Klimas and Houkes have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Klimas played 16 games less than Houkes. Jan scored 3 winners (23% of the total points). On the other side, The Dutch scored 26 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Klimas	Houkes
Aces	1	2
Avg per match	1	2
1st in	4/9	41/59
%1st in	44%	69%
1st pts	3/4	26/41
%1st pts	75%	63%
2nd pts	2/5	8/18
%2nd pts	40%	44%

Klimas fired 1 ace . Houkes also managed to score 2 aces . Klimas won 75% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Houkes won 63% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Klimas	Houkes
Won	2	6
Converted	2/2	6/12
% Converted	100%	50%
Conceded	1	6
Saved	0	2
% Saved	0%	33%
Times Broken	1	4

Jan broke his opponent twice with a 100% conversion rate. Jan conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Max broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Max conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Klimas
	Q1 Michalski	Total
Score	2-1 ret.
Tot Set	1	1
Tot Games	3	3
pts	13-7	13-7
Total points	20	20
Winners	3	3
%Winners	23%	23%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	4/9	4/9
% 1st in	44%	44%
1st pts	3/4	3/4
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	2/5	2/5
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/2	2/2
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	0/1	0
Saved %	0%	0%
Times Broken	1	1

Houkes
	Q1 Cizek	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	74-57	74-57
Total points	131	131
Winners	26	26
%Winners	35%	35%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	41/59	41/59
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	26/41	26/41
% 1st pts	63%	63%
2nd pts	8/18	8/18
% 2nd pts	44%	44%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/12	6/12
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	2/6	2
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	4	4

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