Dominic Stricker and Marko Topo will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Heilbronn Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:00 pm on COURT 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dominic Stricker who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dominic Stricker is the pick to win this match.
Dominic Stricker -> 1.75
Marko Topo -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Dominic Stricker vs. Marko Topo
There is no head to head record between Dominic Stricker and Marko Topo since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Dominic Stricker
14 - 12win/loss
228
88
LWLLWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-13 | 0-4 | 10-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2024 | 12-15 | 7-6 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-25 | 8-3 | 8-5 | 14-13 | 6-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 37-25 | 2-5 | 8-7 | 22-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 26-19 | 0-1 | 6-7 | 14-7 | 2-2 | 4-2 |
Ranked no. 235, the Swiss reached the 2nd round after beating Alexey Vatutin 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Vatutin (6-3 7-5). During the match, Stricker scored 71 points vs Vatutin’s 62. The Swiss was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, Stricker scored 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dominic Stricker lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Stricker put 46% of his first serves in, winning 83% (29/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (20/41) on the 2nd serve. Stricker was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Vatutin 3 times.
Stricker has a winning win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 57% of his matches (133-102). 10-5 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Stricker has a composed37-29 record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Swiss’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Trimbach and M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
Dominic has a compiled 14-12 win-loss record in 2025, 10-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Heilbronn Challenger
Marko Topo
21 - 9win/loss
276
276
LLWWWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-12 | 7-1 | 20-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2024 | 33-23 | 9-4 | 23-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-26 | 0-1 | 31-19 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 26-28 | 8-6 | 12-13 | 6-7 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 4-5 | 1-0 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 333, the Serbian reached the 2nd round after beating Robin Haase 6-4 7-6(3), Daniel Masur 6-4 7-6(5) and Andrea Pellegrino 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, The Serbian had a good straight sets win against Pellegrino (6-3 6-0). During the match Topo scored 54 points vs Pellegrino’s 24. Marko was pretty aggressive to blast 19 winners.
About the serving games, Topo made 11 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Marko Topo was pretty efficient on serve to win 86% (19/22) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Marko broke Pellegrino 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Marko’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Faro and M25 Kursumlijska Banja.
The Serbian has an aggregate 21-9 win-loss record in 2025, 14-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Heilbronn Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Stricker | Topo |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 61 |
| Pts | 71-62 | 213-159 |
| Total Points | 133 | 372 |
| Winners | 29 | 90 |
| %Winners | 41% | 42% |
Stricker played 1 match while Topo competed in 3 matches. Topo started his run from the qualifications while Stricker had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Stricker has played 4 set(s) less than Topo (2 vs 6). Therefore, Stricker played 40 games less than Topo. Dominic scored 29 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Topo managed to score 90 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Stricker | Topo |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 33 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 11 |
| 1st in | 35/76 | 102/172 |
| %1st in | 46% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 90/102 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 88% |
| 2nd pts | 20/41 | 41/70 |
| %2nd pts | 49% | 59% |
Stricker made 7 aces . Topo made 33 aces (11 per match). Stricker won 83% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 49% of the points. On the other side, Topo won 88% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Stricker | Topo |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 8 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 8/22 |
| % Converted | 100% | 36% |
| Conceded | 7 | 9 |
| Saved | 6 | 7 |
| % Saved | 86% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Stricker broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Stricker lost his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Topo broke his opponents 8 times with a 36% conversion rate. Marko conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Stricker | |||
| R1 Vatutin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 71-62 | 71-62 | |
| Total points | 133 | 133 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/76 | 35/76 | |
| % 1st in | 46% | 46% | |
| 1st pts | 29/35 | 29/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/41 | 20/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 49% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Topo | |||||
| Q1 Haase |
Q3 Masur |
R1 Pellegrino |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-63 | 6-4 7-65 | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | 15 | 61 | |
| pts | 80-63 | 79-72 | 54-24 | 213-159 | |
| Total points | 143 | 151 | 78 | 372 | |
| Winners | 36 | 35 | 19 | 90 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 44% | 35% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 12 | 10 | 11 | 33 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 38/58 | 42/74 | 22/40 | 102/172 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 57% | 55% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 36/38 | 35/42 | 19/22 | 90/102 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 83% | 86% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/20 | 16/32 | 12/18 | 41/70 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 50% | 67% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | |
| Converted | 1/10 | 2/5 | 5/7 | 8/22 | |
| Converted % | 10% | 40% | 71% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 7 | 2 | 9 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 6/7 | 1/2 | 7 | |
| Saved % | – | 86% | 50% | 136% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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