Nerman Fatic and Zdenek Kolar will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Sofia 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Nerman Fatic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Nerman Fatic is the pick to win this match.
Nerman Fatic -> 1.32
Zdenek Kolar -> 3.15

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Prediction and head to head Nerman Fatic vs. Zdenek Kolar

There is no head to head record between Nerman Fatic and Zdenek Kolar since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Nerman Fatic

Nerman Fatic

38 - 11win/loss

Clay
38-11
Rank
214
High
191
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 47-17 2-1 44-15 1-1 0-0 0-0
2024 23-26 3-5 19-20 1-0 0-1 0-0
2023 37-28 0-1 35-25 1-1 0-0 1-1
2022 34-27 0-1 31-19 2-6 0-0 1-1
2021 37-26 1-1 30-22 6-3 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 247, Nerman reached the semifinal after defeating Kilian Feldbausch 6-7(4) 6-4 6-2, Luciano Emanuel Ambrogi 6-3 6-2 and Sebastian Gima 6-2 6-2.

In the quarter, Nerman had a good straight sets win against Gima (6-2 6-2). During the match, Fatic scored 56 points vs Gima’s 38. Fatic was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Fatic struck 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Nerman Fatic was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (30/40) of his 1st serve and 60% (6/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Bosnian broke Gima 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Nerman has conceded 1 set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.

Fatic has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (324-201). 38-11 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Fatic has a composed 287-162 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Nerman’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M15 Porec,M15 Dubrovnik,the Skopje Challenger and the Perugia Challenger.

The Bosnian has an aggregate 38-11 win-loss record in 2025, 38-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Sofia 1 Challenger

Fatic has never competed in this tournament before.

Sofia 1 Challenger
Fatic's Record

Zdenek Kolar

Zdenek Kolar

41 - 20win/loss

Hard
3-2
I Hard
0-0
Clay
38-18
Rank
222
High
111
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 62-30 3-2 59-28 0-0 0-0 0-0
2024 28-23 1-2 11-12 16-9 0-0 0-0
2023 34-35 6-8 19-19 9-7 0-1 0-0
2022 23-36 1-6 17-24 3-3 2-2 0-1
2021 41-32 1-4 34-19 5-8 1-1 0-0
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Ranked no. 382, the Czech got to the semifinal after beating Alexander Vasilev 6-2 6-3, Stefan Adrian Andreescu 6-4 6-2 and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-3 6-0.

In the quarter, Kolar had a good straight sets win against Sanchez-Izquierdo (6-3 6-0). During the match Kolar scored 57 points vs Sanchez-Izquierdo’s 30. Kolar was quite aggressive to blast 27 winners.

About the serving games, Kolar couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Zdenek Kolar was very efficient on serve to win 79% (27/34) of his 1st serve and 73% (8/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Czech was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Sanchez-Izquierdo 4 times.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Czech hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.

Zdenek’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Antalya and M15 Grodzisk Mazowiecki.

Zdenek has a compiled 41-20 win-loss record in 2025, 38-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Sofia 1 Challenger
Kolar's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

N.Fatic
Z.Kolar
5h:05
5h:05
Time on court​
4h:09
4h:09
1h:11
1h:11
Last match​
1h:14
1h:14
3
3
Match played
3
3
64
64
Games Played​
50
50
7
7
Set played​​
6
6
230
230
Total points​
198
198
76.7
76.7
Avg point​
66
66
104
104
Winners
76
76
34.7
34.7
Avg Winners​
25.3
25.3
45%
45%
Ratio winners
38%
38%
-- Serve --
9
9
Aces
2
2
3
3
Avg Aces
0.7
0.7
6
6
Double Faults
5
5
2
2
Avg Double Faults
1.7
1.7
104/143
104/143
1st won total​
76/100
76/100
!
73%
73%
1st won %
!
76%
76%
40/76
40/76
2nd won total​
27/46
27/46
53%
53%
2nd won %
59%
59%
-- Break Points --
13/25
13/25
BP won
14/29
14/29
4.3/8.3
4.3/8.3
Avg BP won
4.7/9.7
4.7/9.7
!
52%
52%
Won
48%
48%
19
19
Conceded
12
12
6.3
6.3
Avg Conceded
4
4
3
3
Broken
3
3
1
1
Avg Broken
1
1
16
16
Saved
9
9
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Fatic Kolar
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 7 6
Tot Games 64 50
Pts 230-185 198-131
Total Points 415 329
Winners 104 76
%Winners 45% 38%

Both Fatic and Kolar played 3 matches. At the moment, Nerman Fatic surrendered 1 set while Zdenek Kolar hasn’t conceded a set so far. Fatic has played 1 set more than Kolar (7 vs 6). Therefore, Fatic played 14 games more than Kolar. Fatic scored 104 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech managed to score 76 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve Fatic Kolar
Aces 9 2
Avg per match 3 0.7
1st in 143/219 100/146
%1st in 65% 68%
1st pts 104/143 76/100
%1st pts 73% 76%
2nd pts 40/76 27/46
%2nd pts 53% 59%

Fatic recorded 9 aces (3 per match). Kolar recorded 2 aces (0.7 per match). Fatic won 73% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Kolar won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Fatic Kolar
Won 13 14
Converted 13/25 14/29
% Converted 52% 48%
Conceded 19 12
Saved 16 9
% Saved 84% 75%
Times Broken 3 3

The Bosnian broke his opponents 13 times with a 52% conversion rate. The Bosnian conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 84% of the break points that he conceded. The Czech broke his opponents 14 times with a 48% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.

Fatic
R1
Feldbausch		 R2
Emanuel		 1/4
Gima		 Total
Score 6-74 6-4 6-2 6-3 6-2 6-2 6-2
Tot Set 3 2 2 7
Tot Games 31 17 16 64
pts 106-96 68-51 56-38 230-185
Total points 202 119 94 415
Winners 40 34 30 104
%Winners 38% 50% 54% 45%
SERVE
Aces 5 2 2 9
Double Faults 3 2 1 6
1st in 55/99 48/70 40/50 143/219
% 1st in 56% 69% 80% 65%
1st pts 40/55 34/48 30/40 104/143
% 1st pts 73% 71% 75% 73%
2nd pts 24/44 10/22 6/10 40/76
% 2nd pts 55% 45% 60% 53%
Breaks
Won 5 4 4 13
Converted 5/13 4/6 4/6 13/25
Converted % 38% 67% 67% 52%
Conceded 10 6 3 19
Saved 8/10 5/6 3/3 16
Saved % 80% 83% 100% 88%
Times Broken 2 1 0 3
Kolar
R1
Vasilev		 R2
Adrian		 1/4
Sanchez-Izquierdo		 Total
Score 6-2 6-3 6-4 6-2 6-3 6-0
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 17 18 15 50
pts 67-43 74-58 57-30 198-131
Total points 110 132 87 329
Winners 25 24 27 76
%Winners 37% 32% 47% 38%
SERVE
Aces 1 1 0 2
Double Faults 2 2 1 5
1st in 31/43 35/58 34/45 100/146
% 1st in 72% 60% 76% 68%
1st pts 25/31 24/35 27/34 76/100
% 1st pts 81% 69% 79% 76%
2nd pts 7/12 12/23 8/11 27/46
% 2nd pts 58% 52% 73% 59%
Breaks
Won 5 5 4 14
Converted 5/11 5/14 4/4 14/29
Converted % 45% 36% 100% 48%
Conceded 3 6 3 12
Saved 2/3 4/6 3/3 9
Saved % 67% 67% 100% 78%
Times Broken 1 2 0 3

Tennis Scores in Sofia 1 Challenger

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