Jozef Kovalik and Sebastian Sorger will play each other in the 1st round of the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jozef Kovalik who should win in 3 sets.
Jozef Kovalik -> 1.44
Sebastian Sorger -> 2.625
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Prediction and head to head Jozef Kovalik vs. Sebastian Sorger
There is no head to head record between Jozef Kovalik and Sebastian Sorger since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Jozef Kovalik
14 - 21win/loss
587
80
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-23 | 2-5 | 11-14 | 0-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-25 | 3-5 | 30-15 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-34 | 1-3 | 21-28 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-23 | 3-6 | 29-13 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-27 | 0-1 | 26-20 | 5-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 515, Jozef got to the 1st round after beating Marco Cecchinato 7-6(3) 6-2 and Marvin Moeller 6-2 7-5.
In the qualifications, Kovalik had a good straight sets win against Moeller (6-2 7-5). During the match, Kovalik scored 66 points vs Moeller’s 53. Kovalik was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kovalik scored just 1 ace throughout the encounter and he committed only 4 double faults. Jozef Kovalik lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kovalik put 54% of his first serves in, winning 65% (20/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Jozef broke Moeller 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Slovakian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 56% of the points he played.
Kovalik has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 54% of his matches (296-257). 11-13 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Kovalik has a composed 242-170 record in the last years on clay.
The Slovakian has an aggregate 14-21 win-loss record in 2025, 11-13 on clay (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
Sebastian Sorger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-24 | 0-1 | 35-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 35-25 | 1-3 | 34-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-30 | 32-14 | 20-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-22 | 9-7 | 19-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 632, Sorger will start his run in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger after he played his last match in the Tulln Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-3 6-3
to Novak in the qualifications on the 31st of August.Sorger has an overall 27-18 win-loss record in 2025, 27-18 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Austrian’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Telfs.
In terms of his career, The Austrian has an overall 144-98 record. He has a positive 100-71 record on clay.
Previously in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Bad Waltersdorf Challenger
- Francesco PassaroPassaro – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-1 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro – Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sandro KoppKopp – Elias YmerYmer (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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