Leo Borg and Johan Nikles will square off in the 2nd round of the Islamabad Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Leo Borg who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Leo Borg is the pick to win this match.
Leo Borg -> 1.84
Johan Nikles -> 1.84
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Prediction and head to head Leo Borg vs. Johan Nikles
There is no head to head record between Leo Borg and Johan Nikles since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Leo Borg
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-27 | 17-10 | 9-7 | 5-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-22 | 25-11 | 1-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 35-30 | 22-13 | 10-8 | 3-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 40-29 | 13-8 | 27-20 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 1-12 | 0-0 | 1-9 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 549, Borg got to the 2nd round after defeating Matthias Ujvary 6-2 6-4.
In the 1st round, Leo had a good straight sets win against Ujvary (6-2 6-4). During the match, Borg scored 64 points vs Ujvary’s 49. Leo was quite aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Borg recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Leo Borg was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (32/42) of his 1st serve and 53% (8/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Leo broke Ujvary 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Borg has a winning record in the last 5 years having won 53% of his matches (135-119). 17-9 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Borg has an aggregate77-41 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Borg’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Doha.
Borg has an aggregate 31-26 win-loss record in 2025, 17-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Islamabad Challenger
Borg has never competed in this tournament before.
Johan Nikles
36 - 23win/loss
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LWWLLWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37-24 | 20-9 | 17-12 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2024 | 45-26 | 12-6 | 33-19 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-23 | 2-2 | 19-19 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-28 | 1-3 | 42-21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 584, Nikles got to the 2nd round after beating Adrian Arcon 6-1 6-1.
In the 1st round, Johan had a good straight sets win against Arcon (6-1 6-1). During the match Nikles scored 60 points vs Arcon’s 32. Nikles was pretty aggressive to blast 17 winners.
About the serving games, Nikles blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Johan Nikles was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (17/22) of his 1st serve and 73% (11/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Nikles broke Arcon 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
The Swiss’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Zahra and M15 Heraklion.
Nikles has a composed 36-23 win-loss record in 2025, 19-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Borg | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 14 |
| Pts | 64-49 | 60-32 |
| Total Points | 113 | 92 |
| Winners | 32 | 17 |
| %Winners | 50% | 28% |
Both Borg and Nikles played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Borg and Nikles have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Borg played 4 games more than Nikles. Borg scored 32 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Johan recorded 17 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Borg | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 4 |
| 1st in | 42/57 | 22/37 |
| %1st in | 74% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 32/42 | 17/22 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 11/15 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 73% |
Borg recorded 2 aces . Nikles made 4 aces . Borg won 76% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Nikles won 77% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 73% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Borg | Nikles |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 5 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 75% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Leo broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Leo extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Swiss broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Johan was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Borg | |||
| R1 Ujvary |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-49 | 64-49 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 42/57 | 42/57 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 32/42 | 32/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/15 | 8/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 53% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Nikles | |||
| R1 Arcon |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 60-32 | 60-32 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 22/37 | 22/37 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 17/22 | 17/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 11/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 73% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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