Joel Schwaerzler and Alexander Ritschard will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Lisbon Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT BELÉM. 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 Joel Schwaerzler who should win in 3 sets.
Joel Schwaerzler -> 1.68
Alexander Ritschard -> 2.09
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Prediction and head to head Joel Schwaerzler vs. Alexander Ritschard
There is no head to head record between Joel Schwaerzler and Alexander Ritschard since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Joel Schwaerzler
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-26 | 0-0 | 39-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-23 | 3-3 | 21-16 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 6-9 | 1-2 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 248, Joel will start his run in the Lisbon Challenger after he played his last match in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Kopriva in the 2nd round on the 18th of September.
Schwaerzler has an aggregate 39-23 win-loss record in 2025, 39-23 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Joel’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Klosters,Lucciana and the Sofia 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Joel has an overall 70-55 record. He has a positive 65-46 record on clay.
Previously in the Lisbon Challenger
Joel has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexander Ritschard
11 - 12win/loss
530
99
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-15 | 0-1 | 11-11 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-23 | 7-5 | 29-8 | 5-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 330, Ritschard reached the 1st round after defeating Stefan Latinovic 6-2 6-2 and Max Houkes 3-6 6-2 7-6(1).
In the qualifications against Houkes, Ritschard recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 6-2 7-61). During the match Ritschard scored 96 points vs Houkes’s 77. The Swiss was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
About the serving games, Ritschard scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Alexander Ritschard lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ritschard put 56% of his first serves in, winning 67% (30/45) of the points behind his 1st serve and 69% (24/35) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Houkes 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Swiss started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Ritschard’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Augsburg Challenger.
Alexander has an aggregate 11-12 win-loss record in 2025, 7-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lisbon Challenger
Previously, he won this tournament once in 2024. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Lisbon Challenger
- Tiago PereiraPereira – Elmer MollerMoller (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vilius GaubasGaubas – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Jerome KymKym (6-2 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henrique RochaRocha – Pedro AraujoAraujo (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Thiago Moura MonteiroMoura Monteiro (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander RitschardRitschard – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco RochaRocha – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (1-4) – H2H and prediction