Cristian Garin and Matej Dodig will clash against each other in the quarter of the Bratislava 1 Challenger for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 3:00 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Cristian Garin who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Cristian Garin is the pick to win this match.
Cristian Garin -> 1.32
Matej Dodig -> 3.15

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Prediction and head to head Cristian Garin vs. Matej Dodig

This will be the 2^nd time that Cristian Garin and Matej Dodig fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Garin (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Garin won 4-6 6-3 6-4 in the 1^st round in the Braunschweig Challenger back in 2024.

Cristian Garin

Ranked no. 122, Garin reached the quarter after beating Abedallah Shelbayh 6-1 7-6(3) and Filip Cristian Jianu 7-6(3) 6-1.

In the 2^nd round, Garin had a good straight sets win against Cristian Jianu (7-6³ 6-1). During the match, Garin scored 72 points vs Cristian Jianu’s 54. The Chilean was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about the service games, Garin blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Cristian Garin lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Garin put 70% of his first serves in, winning 77% (36/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. The Chilean broke Cristian Jianu 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Christian hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Garin has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (296-209). 19-6 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Garin has an aggregate 197-114 match record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the current year was winning the title the Mauthausen Challenger where he overcame Tomas Barrios Vera in the final 3-6 6-1 6-4 and the Oeiras 5 Challenger where he beat Mitchell Krueger in the final 7-6(3) 4-6 6-2.

The Chilean has a compiled 25-11 win-loss record in 2025, 19-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Bratislava 1 Challenger

Christian has never competed in this tournament before.

Matej Dodig

Ranked no. 376, Matej got to the quarter after beating Daniel Cukierman 6-4 6-2, Mateus Alves 7-6(5) 6-2, Jaime Faria 7-5 2-0 ret. and Toby Alex Kodat 7-6(2) 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Dodig had a good straight sets win against Alex Kodat (7-6² 6-3). During the match Dodig scored 77 points vs Alex Kodat’s 61. Dodig was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about serving, Dodig fired 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Matej Dodig was quite effective on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Matej broke Alex Kodat 3 times after converting 38% of his break points (3/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Matej started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 54% of the points he played.

Dodig’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Bol.

Matej has a compiled 12-15 win-loss record in 2025, 12-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Bratislava 1 Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 2^nd round in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Garin	Dodig
Match played	2	4
Tot Set	4	9
Tot Games	40	75
Pts	142-107	267-227
Total Points	249	494
Winners	67	108
%Winners	47%	40%

Garin played 2 matches while Dodig competed in 4 matches. Dodig started his run from the qualifications while Garin had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Garin has played 5 set(s) less than Dodig (4 vs 9). Therefore, Garin played 35 games less than Dodig. Christian scored 67 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian managed to score 108 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Garin	Dodig
Aces	9	15
Avg per match	4.5	3.8
1st in	88/130	149/242
%1st in	68%	62%
1st pts	67/88	108/149
%1st pts	76%	72%
2nd pts	24/42	52/93
%2nd pts	57%	56%

Garin scored 9 aces (4.5 per match). Dodig recorded 15 aces (3.8 per match). Garin won 76% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Dodig won 72% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Garin	Dodig
Won	6	13
Converted	6/10	13/28
% Converted	60%	46%
Conceded	9	17
Saved	7	13
% Saved	78%	76%
Times Broken	2	4

The Chilean broke his opponents 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Garin conceded his serve twice and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded. Dodig broke his opponents 13 times with a 46% conversion rate. Dodig conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 76% of the break points that he conceded.

Garin
	R1 Shelbayh	R2 Cristian	Total
Score	6-1 7-63	7-63 6-1
Tot Set	2	2	4
Tot Games	20	20	40
pts	70-53	72-54	142-107
Total points	123	126	249
Winners	31	36	67
%Winners	44%	50%	47%
SERVE
Aces	5	4	9
Double Faults	3	1	4
1st in	41/63	47/67	88/130
% 1st in	65%	70%	68%
1st pts	31/41	36/47	67/88
% 1st pts	76%	77%	76%
2nd pts	14/22	10/20	24/42
% 2nd pts	64%	50%	57%
Breaks
Won	3	3	6
Converted	3/5	3/5	6/10
Converted %	60%	60%	60%
Conceded	4	5	9
Saved	3/4	4/5	7
Saved %	75%	80%	78%
Times Broken	1	1	2

Dodig
	Q1 Cukierman	Q3 Alves	R1 Faria	R2 Alex	Total
Score	6-4 6-2	7-65 6-2	7-5 2-0 ret.	7-62 6-3
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	8
Tot Games	18	21	14	22	75
pts	60-51	69-64	61-51	77-61	267-227
Total points	111	133	112	138	494
Winners	24	33	21	30	108
%Winners	40%	48%	34%	39%	40%
SERVE
Aces	2	5	3	5	15
Double Faults	2	5	2	1	10
1st in	33/53	43/74	32/52	41/63	149/242
% 1st in	62%	58%	62%	65%	62%
1st pts	24/33	33/43	21/32	30/41	108/149
% 1st pts	73%	77%	66%	73%	72%
2nd pts	13/20	14/31	10/20	15/22	52/93
% 2nd pts	65%	45%	50%	68%	56%
Breaks
Won	3	3	4	3	13
Converted	3/7	3/6	4/7	3/8	13/28
Converted %	43%	50%	57%	38%	46%
Conceded	3	3	7	4	17
Saved	3/3	2/3	5/7	3/4	13
Saved %	100%	67%	71%	75%	157%
Times Broken	0	1	2	1	4

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