Jaime Faria and Zdenek Kolar will square off in the 2^nd round of the Braga Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 1:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jaime Faria who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Jaime Faria is the pick to win this match.
Jaime Faria -> 1.56
Zdenek Kolar -> 2.31

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Prediction and head to head Jaime Faria vs. Zdenek Kolar

There is no head to head record between Jaime Faria and Zdenek Kolar since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Jaime Faria

Ranked no. 118, Jaime reached the 2^nd round after defeating Stefano Travaglia 7-5 7-6(6).

In the 1^st round, The Portuguese had a good straight sets win against Travaglia (7-5 7-6⁶). During the match, Faria scored 89 points vs Travaglia’s 78. Faria was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Talking about the service games, Faria bagged 3 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Jaime Faria lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Faria put 52% of his first serves in, winning 76% (35/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (17/43) on the 2nd serve. Faria broke Travaglia 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).

Faria has a solid win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 61% of his matches (180-114). 9-14 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Faria has a composed80-56 match record in the last 6 years on clay.

Jaime’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal in the Sumter Challenger.

Jaime has a compiled 23-23 win-loss record in 2025, 9-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Braga Challenger

Zdenek Kolar

Ranked no. 236, Kolar got to the 2^nd round after beating Max Houkes 5-0 ret..

In the 1^st round against Houkes, the Czech had a free pass after Houkes retired on a 5-0 . scoreline.

His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Sofia 1 Challenger where he beat Murkel Dellien in the final 6-2 6-2.

The Czech has an overall 55-24 win-loss record in 2025, 52-22 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Braga Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Faria	Kolar
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	5
Pts	89-78	24-12
Total Points	167	36
Winners	35	6
%Winners	39%	25%

Both Faria and Kolar played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Faria and Kolar have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Faria played 20 games more than Kolar. Faria scored 35 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Zdenek blasted 6 winners (25%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Faria	Kolar
Aces	3	0
Avg per match	3	0
1st in	46/89	6/16
%1st in	52%	38%
1st pts	35/46	6/6
%1st pts	76%	100%
2nd pts	17/43	6/10
%2nd pts	40%	60%

Faria managed to score 3 aces . Kolar didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Faria won 76% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Kolar won 100% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 60% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Faria	Kolar
Won	4	2
Converted	4/11	2/3
% Converted	36%	67%
Conceded	11	0
Saved	8	0
% Saved	73%	0%
Times Broken	3	0

Faria broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Faria conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded. Kolar broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. Kolar was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Faria
	R1 Travaglia	Total
Score	7-5 7-66
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	25	25
pts	89-78	89-78
Total points	167	167
Winners	35	35
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	7	7
1st in	46/89	46/89
% 1st in	52%	52%
1st pts	35/46	35/46
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	17/43	17/43
% 2nd pts	40%	40%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/11	4/11
Converted %	36%	36%
Conceded	11	11
Saved	8/11	8
Saved %	73%	73%
Times Broken	3	3

Kolar
	R1 Houkes	Total
Score	5-0 ret.
Tot Set	1	1
Tot Games	5	5
pts	24-12	24-12
Total points	36	36
Winners	6	6
%Winners	25%	25%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	6/16	6/16
% 1st in	38%	38%
1st pts	6/6	6/6
% 1st pts	100%	100%
2nd pts	6/10	6/10
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/3	2/3
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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• Elmer MollerMoller – Henrique RochaRocha (6-7² 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luka MikrutMikrut – Dusan LajovicLajovic (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

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