Carlos Taberner and Zdenek Kolar will play each other in the 2nd round of the Montevideo Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CANCHA CENTRAL. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Carlos Taberner who should win in 3 sets.
Carlos Taberner -> 1.571
Zdenek Kolar -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Carlos Taberner vs. Zdenek Kolar
This will be the 4th time that Carlos Taberner and Zdenek Kolar play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Kolar (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Taberner won 6-2 6-3 in the qualifications in Bucharest back in 2024.
Carlos Taberner
45 - 26win/loss
103
83
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45-27 | 1-3 | 44-23 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 47-36 | 0-3 | 46-31 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-23 | 3-4 | 22-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-33 | 1-2 | 29-27 | 1-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-25 | 3-4 | 33-15 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 104, the Spaniard reached the 2nd round after beating Gonzalo Bueno 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round, Carlos had a good straight sets win against Bueno (6-0 6-2). During the match, Taberner scored 57 points vs Bueno’s 25. Taberner was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Taberner blasted 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Carlos Taberner was quite effective on serve to win 83% (20/24) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Carlos broke Bueno 6 times after converting 46% of his break points (6/13).
Taberner has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (400-257). 43-22 on clay in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Taberner has a compiled 367-206 match record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the year was conquering the title the Murcia Challenger where he overcame Jesper De Jong in the final 7-6(3) 4-6 6-2 and the Sassuolo Challenger where he overcame Dusan Lajovic in the final 7-6(1) 6-2.
Carlos has a compiled 44-26 win-loss record in 2025, 43-22 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montevideo Challenger
Zdenek Kolar
61 - 30win/loss
222
111
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61-30 | 3-2 | 58-28 | 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 |
Ranked no. 224, the Czech reached the 2nd round after beating Joaquin Aguilar Cardozo 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Kolar had a good straight sets win against Aguilar Cardozo (6-1 6-1). During the match Kolar scored 54 points vs Aguilar Cardozo’s 25. Kolar was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Kolar bagged 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Zdenek Kolar was extremely efficient on serve to win 83% (19/23) of his 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zdenek was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Aguilar Cardozo 5 times.
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Sofia 1 Challenger where he defeated Murkel Dellien in the final 6-2 6-2.
The Czech has a composed 61-29 win-loss record in 2025, 58-27 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Taberner | Kolar |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 |
| Pts | 57-25 | 54-25 |
| Total Points | 82 | 79 |
| Winners | 20 | 19 |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% |
Both Taberner and Kolar played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Taberner and Kolar have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (14). Taberner scored 20 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Kolar managed to score 19 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Taberner | Kolar |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 3 |
| 1st in | 24/38 | 23/41 |
| %1st in | 63% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 19/23 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 83% |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 11/18 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 61% |
Taberner recorded 3 aces . Kolar struck 3 aces . Taberner won 83% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Kolar won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Taberner | Kolar |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/13 | 5/5 |
| % Converted | 46% | 100% |
| Conceded | 1 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 4 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Carlos broke his opponent 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. The Spaniard surrendered his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Zdenek broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Kolar was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.
| Taberner | |||
| R1 Bueno | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 57-25 | 57-25 | |
| Total points | 82 | 82 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 24/38 | 24/38 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 20/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/14 | 8/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/13 | 6/13 | |
| Converted % | 46% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kolar | |||
| R1 Aguilar | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-25 | 54-25 | |
| Total points | 79 | 79 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 35% | 35% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 23/41 | 23/41 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 19/23 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 11/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Montevideo Challenger
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- Mariano NavoneNavone – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (3-6 6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gustavo HeideHeide – Emilio NavaNava (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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