Zizou Bergs and Mark Lajal will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Sumter Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on STADIUM. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zizou Bergs who should win in 3 sets.
Zizou Bergs -> 1.62
Mark Lajal -> 2.19
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Prediction and head to head Zizou Bergs vs. Mark Lajal
This will be the 2nd time that Zizou Bergs and Mark Lajal clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bergs (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played, Bergs won 7-6(2) 7-6(4) in the quarter in S hertogenbosch back in June 2025.
Highlights Zizou Bergs vs Mark Lajal – S hertogenbosch 13-June-2025
Zizou Bergs
24 - 21win/loss
43
39
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33-29 | 20-16 | 2-5 | 7-4 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-29 | 9-9 | 17-7 | 15-9 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-27 | 8-7 | 16-7 | 9-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-30 | 7-5 | 7-7 | 17-16 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-21 | 2-5 | 15-10 | 21-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 54, Bergs will start his run in the Sumter Challenger after he played his last match in Cincinnati where he lost 6-3 7-6(4) to Sonego in the 2nd round on the 9th of August.
Zizou has an aggregate 24-20 win-loss record in 2025, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Bergs’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Auckland and Hertogenbosch.
Talking about his overall career, The Belgian has an overall 325-200 record. He has a positive 91-57 record on hard.
Previously in the Sumter Challenger
Bergs has never competed in this tournament before.
Mark Lajal
31 - 15win/loss
146
145
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46-25 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 15-8 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-30 | 18-14 | 0-3 | 15-10 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 25-16 | 5-2 | 16-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-24 | 35-12 | 2-6 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 5-7 | 5-4 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 150, Mark got to the 2nd round after defeating Strong Kirchheimer 1-6 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round against Kirchheimer, The Estonian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 7-5).During the match Lajal scored less points (7) than Kirchheimer. In fact, the world no. 54 won 81 points vs Kirchheimer’s. That means that Lajal was more focused during the important points. Lajal was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Lajal scored 2 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Mark Lajal lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Lajal put 58% of his first serves in, winning 75% (36/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 49% (17/35) on the 2nd serve. Mark broke Kirchheimer twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Bloomfield Hills Challenger where he defeated Andres Martin in the final 6-7(7) 7-5 7-6(9).
The Estonian has a composed 30-15 win-loss record in 2025, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Sumter Challenger
- Murphy CassoneCassone – Darwin BlanchBlanch (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Martin LandaluceLandaluce (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Karl PolingPoling – Daniel EvansEvans (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Mark LajalLajal – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (1-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Lukas KleinKlein – Ryan SeggermanSeggerman (6-4 ret.) – See score progression
- Henrique RochaRocha – Martin DammDamm (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- James McCabeMcCabe – Jacob FearnleyFearnley (3-6 7-5 ret.) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Kaylan BigunBigun – Rei SakamotoSakamoto (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Alex RybakovRybakov (7-5 7-62) – See score progression
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Christopher EubanksEubanks (6-3 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Jaime FariaFaria – Hady HabibHabib (6-79 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
- Henrique RochaRocha – Martin DammDamm (3-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Karl PolingPoling – Daniel EvansEvans (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Martin LandaluceLandaluce (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Murphy CassoneCassone – Darwin BlanchBlanch (7-5 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Filip MisolicMisolic (0-0) – H2H and prediction