Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Andrew Paulson will face off in the semifinal of the Tulln Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 2:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Santiago Rodriguez Taverna who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Santiago Rodriguez Taverna is the pick to win this match.
Santiago Rodriguez Taverna -> 1.64
Andrew Paulson -> 2.15

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Prediction and head to head Santiago Rodriguez Taverna vs. Andrew Paulson

There is no head to head record between Santiago Rodriguez Taverna and Andrew Paulson since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Santiago Rodriguez Taverna

Ranked no. 207, Santiago reached the semifinal after defeating Mathys Erhard 6-3 6-4, Diego Dedura 6-4 6-4 and Oleg Prihodko 6-3 6-4.

In the quarter, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Prihodko (6-3 6-4). During the match, Rodriguez Taverna scored 79 points vs Prihodko’s 72. Santiago was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Rodriguez Taverna scored 6 aces and he was pretty steady in conceding no double faults. Santiago Rodriguez Taverna lost the serve once and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Rodriguez Taverna put 58% of his first serves in, winning 71% (30/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (15/31) on the 2nd serve. Rodriguez Taverna broke Prihodko 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Argentine hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to conquer 54% of the points he played.

Rodriguez Taverna has winning win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (332-236). 39-24 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Rodriguez Taverna has an overall 256-181 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

His best result of the year was winning the title the Porto Alegre Challenger where he beat Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo in the final 4-6 6-4 7-6(6).

The Argentine has a compiled 43-29 win-loss record in 2025, 39-24 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tulln Challenger

Andrew Paulson

Ranked no. 808, Paulson got to the semifinal after beating Jacopo Berrettini 6-3 6-4, Marko Topo 7-5 3-6 7-6(5) and Francesco Maestrelli 6-2 6-3.

In the quarter, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Maestrelli (6-2 6-3). During the match Paulson scored 66 points vs Maestrelli’s 44. Paulson was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.

About the serving games, Paulson struck 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Andrew Paulson was pretty efficient on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Paulson broke Maestrelli 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Paulson has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.

Paulson has a composed 4-9 win-loss record in 2025, 4-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Tulln Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Rodriguez Taverna	Paulson
Match played	3	3
Tot Set	6	7
Tot Games	58	70
Pts	209-179	237-215
Total Points	388	452
Winners	94	100
%Winners	45%	42%

Both Rodriguez Taverna and Paulson played 3 matches. At the moment, Andrew Paulson dropped 1 set while Santiago Rodriguez Taverna hasn’t conceded a set so far. Rodriguez Taverna has played 1 set(s) less than Paulson (6 vs 7). Therefore, Rodriguez Taverna played 12 games less than Paulson. Rodriguez Taverna scored 94 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Czech bagged 100 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Rodriguez Taverna	Paulson
Aces	9	19
Avg per match	3	6.3
1st in	126/197	126/216
%1st in	64%	58%
1st pts	94/126	100/126
%1st pts	75%	79%
2nd pts	41/71	45/90
%2nd pts	58%	50%

Rodriguez Taverna fired 9 aces (3 per match). Paulson fired 19 aces (6.3 per match). Rodriguez Taverna won 75% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Paulson won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Rodriguez Taverna	Paulson
Won	7	10
Converted	7/19	10/30
% Converted	37%	33%
Conceded	15	17
Saved	14	12
% Saved	93%	71%
Times Broken	1	5

The Argentine broke his opponents 7 times with a 37% conversion rate. The Argentine surrendered his serve once and he saved 93% of the break points that he conceded. Andrew broke his opponents 10 times with a 33% conversion rate. Paulson conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.

Rodriguez Taverna
	R1 Erhard	R2 Dedura	1/4 Prihodko	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	6-4 6-4	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2	2	6
Tot Games	19	20	19	58
pts	62-46	68-61	79-72	209-179
Total points	108	129	151	388
Winners	31	33	30	94
%Winners	50%	49%	38%	45%
SERVE
Aces	3	0	6	9
Double Faults	0	0	0	0
1st in	38/50	46/74	42/73	126/197
% 1st in	76%	62%	58%	64%
1st pts	31/38	33/46	30/42	94/126
% 1st pts	82%	72%	71%	75%
2nd pts	10/12	16/28	15/31	41/71
% 2nd pts	83%	57%	48%	58%
Breaks
Won	2	2	3	7
Converted	2/5	2/3	3/11	7/19
Converted %	40%	67%	27%	37%
Conceded	0	6	9	15
Saved	0/0	6/6	8/9	14
Saved %	–	100%	89%	63%
Times Broken	0	0	1	1

Paulson
	R1 Berrettini	R2 Topo	1/4 Maestrelli	Total
Score	6-3 6-4	7-5 3-6 7-65	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	3	2	7
Tot Games	19	34	17	70
pts	60-54	111-117	66-44	237-215
Total points	114	228	110	452
Winners	28	42	30	100
%Winners	47%	38%	45%	42%
SERVE
Aces	5	10	4	19
Double Faults	4	3	4	11
1st in	32/60	58/105	36/51	126/216
% 1st in	53%	55%	71%	58%
1st pts	28/32	42/58	30/36	100/126
% 1st pts	88%	72%	83%	79%
2nd pts	15/28	22/47	8/15	45/90
% 2nd pts	54%	47%	53%	50%
Breaks
Won	2	5	3	10
Converted	2/6	5/17	3/7	10/30
Converted %	33%	29%	43%	33%
Conceded	2	13	2	17
Saved	2/2	8/13	2/2	12
Saved %	100%	62%	100%	87%
Times Broken	0	5	0	5

Tennis Scores in Tulln Challenger

• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Sandro KoppKopp (7-6² 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Joel SchwaerzlerSchwaerzler – Sumit NagalNagal (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna – Oleg PrihodkoPrihodko (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Luka Mikrut/Marko TopoMikrut/Marko Topo – Zdenek Kolar/Denys MolchanovKolar/Denys Molchanov (7-5 2-6 12-10) – See score progression
• Oleg Prihodko/Vitaliy SachkoPrihodko/Vitaliy Sachko – Mili Poljicak/Nino SerdarusicPoljicak/Nino Serdarusic (7-6⁴ 1-6 10-5) – See score progression
• Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Sandro KoppKopp (7-6(2) 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrew PaulsonPaulson – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (6-2 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (0-0) – H2H and prediction