Rudolf Molleker and Tom Gentzsch will square off in the 1st round of the Braunschweig Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on COURT 11. 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 Rudolf Molleker who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Rudolf Molleker is the pick to win this match.
Rudolf Molleker -> 1.55
Tom Gentzsch -> 2.33
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Prediction and head to head Rudolf Molleker vs. Tom Gentzsch
This will be the 2nd time that Rudolf Molleker and Tom Gentzsch clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Molleker (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played, Molleker won 6-4 4-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in M15 Oberhaching back in 2023.
Rudolf Molleker
20 - 17win/loss
398
146
LWLLWWWLLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38-30 | 6-5 | 26-17 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-34 | 4-8 | 15-18 | 7-6 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 53-35 | 2-3 | 42-25 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 3-1 |
| 2022 | 47-28 | 2-1 | 45-24 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 8-23 | 0-1 | 6-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 347, Rudolf got to the 1st round after beating Ivan Liutarevich 6-1 6-4, Gonzalo Bueno 4-6 6-1 7-5 and Tom Gentzsch 6-7(3) 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications against Bueno, Rudolf recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-1 7-5). During the match, Molleker scored 90 points vs Bueno’s 72. Rudolf was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Molleker fired 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Rudolf Molleker was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 74% (26/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Molleker broke Bueno 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Rudolf started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has lost 1 set in this event to win 58% of the points he played.
Molleker has a winning match record in the last 9 years having won 53% of his matches (251-222). 15-9 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Molleker has an overall185-133 record in the last 9 years on clay.
The German’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Bol.
Molleker has an aggregate 20-16 win-loss record in 2025, 15-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Braunschweig Challenger
Tom Gentzsch
26 - 18win/loss
290
269
LLLWLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52-30 | 9-4 | 33-14 | 8-11 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2024 | 48-26 | 12-6 | 26-15 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 6-2 |
| 2023 | 45-39 | 10-6 | 29-25 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4-3 |
| 2022 | 34-28 | 14-11 | 15-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 11-11 | 1-2 | 8-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 402 (career-high), Tom got to the 1st round after defeating Rudolf Molleker 6-7(3) 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round against Molleker, Gentzsch recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-7(3) 6-2 6-2). During the match Gentzsch and Molleker scored the same amount of points (). However, the world no. 347 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Gentzsch was not very aggressive do strike just winners.
About the serving games, Gentzsch couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Tom Gentzsch conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 0% of his first serves in, win 0% (/) of the points behind his 1st serve and 0% (/) on the 2nd serve.
Tom’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir,M15 Bastad and M15 Kotka.
Tom has a compiled 25-18 win-loss record in 2025, 14-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Braunschweig Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Yannick HanfmannHanfmann – Clement TaburTabur (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tom GentzschGentzsch – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (6-7(3) 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nerman FaticFatic – Roman Andres BurruchagaAndres Burruchaga (4-6 6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip MisolicMisolic – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Diego DeduraDedura – Elias YmerYmer (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip MisolicMisolic – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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