Milos Karol and Aristotelis Thanos will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Tampere Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 2:30 pm on COURT 7. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Milos Karol who should win in 3 sets.
Milos Karol -> 1.86
Aristotelis Thanos -> 1.86
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Prediction and head to head Milos Karol vs. Aristotelis Thanos
There is no head to head record between Milos Karol and Aristotelis Thanos since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Milos Karol
20 - 16win/loss
449
356
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-29 | 4-4 | 20-14 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 53-31 | 8-5 | 21-17 | 24-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2023 | 28-27 | 3-2 | 11-13 | 13-11 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 6-24 | 3-5 | 1-15 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-18 | 0-0 | 10-11 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 374, Milos reached the qualifications after beating Preston Brown 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Milos had a good straight sets win against Brown (6-2 6-2). During the match, Karol scored 66 points vs Brown’s 41. The Slovakian was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about the service games, Karol bagged 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Milos Karol was quite efficient on serve to win 88% (23/26) of his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Karol broke Brown 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Karol has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 52% of his matches (131-119). 16-10 on clay in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Karol has an aggregate60-67 win-loss record in the last 7 years on clay.
Karol’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in M15 Warmbad Villach.
Karol has a compiled 20-16 win-loss record in 2025, 16-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tampere Challenger
Milos has never competed in this tournament before.
Aristotelis Thanos
15 - 5win/loss
439
433
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-16 | 5-5 | 23-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 30-13 | 15-8 | 10-3 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-8 | 12-4 | 5-2 | 5-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 9-10 | 2-6 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-21 | 15-11 | 17-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 476 (career-high), Aristotelis got to the qualifications after defeating Matteo Fondriest 6-2 7-6(6).
In the qualifications, Aristotelis had a good straight sets win against Fondriest (6-2 7-66). During the match Thanos scored 82 points vs Fondriest’s 66. Aristotelis was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Thanos fired 3 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Aristotelis Thanos lost the serve 3 times and he saved 12 break points. Furthermore, Thanos put 44% of his first serves in, winning 73% (24/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (20/42) on the 2nd serve. Aristotelis broke Fondriest 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Thanos’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Varnamo.
Thanos has an aggregate 15-5 win-loss record in 2025, 12-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Karol | Thanos |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 21 |
| Pts | 66-41 | 82-66 |
| Total Points | 107 | 148 |
| Winners | 23 | 24 |
| %Winners | 35% | 29% |
Both Karol and Thanos 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, Karol and Thanos have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Karol played 5 games less than Thanos. Milos scored 23 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, The Greek scored 24 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Karol | Thanos |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 3 |
| 1st in | 26/51 | 33/75 |
| %1st in | 51% | 44% |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 24/33 |
| %1st pts | 88% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 20/42 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 48% |
Karol bagged 6 aces . Thanos struck 3 aces . Karol won 88% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Thanos won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Karol | Thanos |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 40% | 56% |
| Conceded | 2 | 15 |
| Saved | 2 | 12 |
| % Saved | 100% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Milos broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Milos had a solid display on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 2 break points. Thanos broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Greek conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Karol | |||
| Q1 Brown | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 66-41 | 66-41 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/51 | 26/51 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 23/26 | 23/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 88% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/25 | 14/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Thanos | |||
| Q1 Fondriest | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 82-66 | 82-66 | |
| Total points | 148 | 148 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 9 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 33/75 | 33/75 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 44% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/42 | 20/42 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 15 | |
| Saved | 12/15 | 12 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
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