Zdenek Kolar and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Montemar Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:30 am on COURT 4. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Zdenek Kolar who should win in 3 sets.
Zdenek Kolar -> 1.55
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Zdenek Kolar vs. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
This will be the 2nd time that Zdenek Kolar and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kolar (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kolar won 6-3 6-0 in the quarter in the Sofia 1 Challenger back in August 2025.
Zdenek Kolar
62 - 30win/loss
222
111
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62-30 | 3-2 | 59-28 | 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. 222, Kolar got to the 2nd round after defeating Javier Barranco Cosano 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Kolar had a good straight sets win against Barranco Cosano (6-4 6-2). During the match, Kolar scored 68 points vs Barranco Cosano’s 54. Kolar was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kolar scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 4 double faults. Zdenek Kolar lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kolar put 52% of his first serves in, winning 68% (21/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 62% (18/29) on the 2nd serve. Kolar broke Barranco Cosano 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Kolar has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (393-304). 59-28 on clay in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kolar has an aggregate 281-190 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Sofia 1 Challenger where he beat Murkel Dellien in the final 6-2 6-2.
The Czech has a composed 62-30 win-loss record in 2025, 59-28 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montemar Challenger
Zdenek has never competed in this tournament before.
Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo
42 - 30win/loss
303
238
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42-30 | 0-3 | 42-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-36 | 2-2 | 30-33 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-31 | 4-5 | 41-23 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-29 | 5-0 | 26-25 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-32 | 0-2 | 39-28 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 303, Sanchez-Izquierdo reached the 2nd round after defeating Franco Agamenone 6-3 6-0.
In the 1st round, Sanchez-Izquierdo had a good straight sets win against Agamenone (6-3 6-0). During the match Sanchez-Izquierdo scored 56 points vs Agamenone’s 33. Sanchez-Izquierdo was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Sanchez-Izquierdo wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo was pretty efficient on serve to win 79% (22/28) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Spaniard broke Agamenone 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Nikolas’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Tarragona,M25 Reus,the Porto Alegre Challenger,M25 Mataro and M25 Montauban.
Nikolas has an overall 42-30 win-loss record in 2025, 42-27 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Montemar Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2024. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kolar | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 15 |
| Pts | 68-54 | 56-33 |
| Total Points | 122 | 89 |
| Winners | 21 | 22 |
| %Winners | 31% | 39% |
Both Kolar and Sanchez-Izquierdo played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kolar and Sanchez-Izquierdo have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kolar played 3 games more than Sanchez-Izquierdo. Zdenek scored 21 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Nikolas blasted 22 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kolar | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 0 |
| 1st in | 31/60 | 28/40 |
| %1st in | 52% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 21/31 | 22/28 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | 8/12 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 67% |
Kolar made 1 ace . Sanchez-Izquierdo didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kolar won 68% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Sanchez-Izquierdo won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kolar | Sanchez-Izquierdo |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 5/12 |
| % Converted | 36% | 42% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 3 |
| % Saved | 80% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
The Czech broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Kolar surrendered his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Nikolas broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. Sanchez-Izquierdo was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Kolar | |||
| R1 Barranco | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 68-54 | 68-54 | |
| Total points | 122 | 122 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 31/60 | 31/60 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 21/31 | 21/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/29 | 18/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sanchez-Izquierdo | |||
| R1 Agamenone | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-0 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 56-33 | 56-33 | |
| Total points | 89 | 89 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 28/40 | 28/40 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 22/28 | 22/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/12 | 8/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Montemar Challenger
- Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri – Edas ButvilasButvilas (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (7-5 6-73 6-4) – See score progression
- Cezar CretuCretu – Federico BondioliBondioli (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrej NedicNedic – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Gabriele PirainoPiraino – Adrien BurdetBurdet (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Stefan PalosiPalosi (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Filippo MoroniMoroni (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Elmer MollerMoller – Tiago PereiraPereira (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Daniel Merida AguilarMerida Aguilar – Alberto Garcia GarciaGarcia Garcia (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Miguel DamasDamas – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (6-4 7-63) – See score progression
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Stefan PalosiPalosi (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Filippo MoroniMoroni (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Gabriele PirainoPiraino – Adrien BurdetBurdet (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Gianluca CadenassoCadenasso – Daniel MichalskiMichalski (6-4 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Clement TaburTabur – Svyatoslav GulinGulin (6-2 6-7(7) 6-4) – See score progression
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Javier Barranco CosanoBarranco Cosano (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Max Alcala GurriAlcala Gurri – Edas ButvilasButvilas (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Andrej NedicNedic – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Cezar CretuCretu – Federico BondioliBondioli (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (7-5 6-7(3) 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Carlos TabernerTaberner – Ivan GakhovGakhov (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Miguel DamasDamas – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (0-0) – H2H and prediction