Dali Blanch and Tadeas Paroulek will play each other in the qualifications of the Sofia 1 Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:30 am on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dali Blanch who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Dali Blanch is the pick to win this match.
Dali Blanch -> 1.62
Tadeas Paroulek -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Dali Blanch vs. Tadeas Paroulek

There is no head to head record between Dali Blanch and Tadeas Paroulek since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Dali Blanch

Ranked no. 473 (career-high), the American got to the qualifications after beating Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4 7-5.

In the qualifications, Dali had a good straight sets win against Kumar Sinha (6-4 7-5). During the match, Blanch scored 67 points vs Kumar Sinha’s 56. Blanch was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Blanch bagged 8 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dali Blanch lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Blanch put 52% of his first serves in, winning 81% (25/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (14/29) on the 2nd serve. Blanch broke Kumar Sinha 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Blanch has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 51% of his matches (130-126). 30-14 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Blanch has an aggregate78-61 record in the last 7 years on clay.

Dali’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Kursumlijska Banja.

Blanch has an aggregate 34-19 win-loss record in 2025, 30-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sofia 1 Challenger

The American has never competed in this tournament before.

Tadeas Paroulek

Ranked no. 495 (career-high), Paroulek got to the qualifications after beating Georgi Georgiev 2-6 6-4 7-6(4).

In the qualifications against Georgiev, Paroulek recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-4 7-6⁴).During the match Paroulek scored less points (3) than Georgiev. In fact, the world no. 473 won 109 points vs Georgiev’s. That means that Paroulek was more focused during the important points. Paroulek was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.

Talking about serving, Paroulek blasted 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Tadeas Paroulek lost the serve 5 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Paroulek put 60% of his first serves in, winning 61% (36/59) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (21/40) on the 2nd serve. Paroulek broke Georgiev 4 times after converting 25% of his break points (4/16).

Paroulek’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir and M15 Uslar.

Tadeas has a compiled 52-21 win-loss record in 2025, 23-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Blanch	Paroulek
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	22	31
Pts	67-56	109-112
Total Points	123	221
Winners	25	36
%Winners	37%	33%

Both Blanch and Paroulek played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Tadeas Paroulek lost 1 set while Dali Blanch hasn’t lost a set so far. Blanch has played 1 set(s) less than Paroulek (2 vs 3). Therefore, Blanch played 9 games less than Paroulek. Blanch scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Paroulek managed to score 36 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Blanch	Paroulek
Aces	8	5
Avg per match	8	5
1st in	31/60	59/99
%1st in	52%	60%
1st pts	25/31	36/59
%1st pts	81%	61%
2nd pts	14/29	21/40
%2nd pts	48%	53%

Blanch scored 8 aces . Paroulek bagged 5 aces . Blanch won 81% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Paroulek won 61% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Blanch	Paroulek
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/16
% Converted	67%	25%
Conceded	4	12
Saved	2	7
% Saved	50%	58%
Times Broken	2	5

Blanch broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The American lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Tadeas broke his opponent 4 times with a 25% conversion rate. Tadeas conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 58% of the break points that he conceded.

Blanch
	Q1 Kumar	Total
Score	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	67-56	67-56
Total points	123	123
Winners	25	25
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	31/60	31/60
% 1st in	52%	52%
1st pts	25/31	25/31
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	14/29	14/29
% 2nd pts	48%	48%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

Paroulek
	Q1 Georgiev	Total
Score	2-6 6-4 7-64
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	31	31
pts	109-112	109-112
Total points	221	221
Winners	36	36
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	59/99	59/99
% 1st in	60%	60%
1st pts	36/59	36/59
% 1st pts	61%	61%
2nd pts	21/40	21/40
% 2nd pts	53%	53%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/16	4/16
Converted %	25%	25%
Conceded	12	12
Saved	7/12	7
Saved %	58%	58%
Times Broken	5	5

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