James Duckworth and Alibek Kachmazov will play each other in the 1st round of the Nur-Sultan 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.182
Alibek Kachmazov -> 4.6
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Alibek Kachmazov
There is no head to head record between James Duckworth and Alibek Kachmazov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
James Duckworth
Ranked no. 102, Duckworth will start his run in the Sultan 2 Challenger after he played his last match in Singapore where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Hanfmann in the 1st round on the 23rd of February.
The Australian has a 3-3 win-loss record in 2021, 0-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, James has an overall 348-214 record. He has a negative 14-15 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Sultan 2 Challenger
Duckworth has never competed in this tournament before.
Alibek Kachmazov
Ranked no. 691 (career high), Kachmazov got to the 1st round after beating Aleksandre Metreveli 6-4 2-0 ret. and Ulises Blanch 6-2 4-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Russian defeated Blanch (6-2 4-6 6-3). During the match Kachmazov scored 104 points vs Blanch’s 95. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Kachmazov struck 3 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Alibek Kachmazov lost the serve 3 times and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Kachmazov put 50% of his first serves in, winning 76% (41/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (23/53) on the 2nd serve. Kachmazov broke Blanch 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Kachmazov’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 St. Petersburg.
Kachmazov has a 10-3 win-loss record in 2021, 9-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Sultan 2 Challenger
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Ulises BlanchBlanch (7-62 4-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vladyslav ManafovManafov – Aleksandr NedovesovNedovesov (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Dmitry PopkoPopko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taro DanielDaniel – Ryan PenistonPeniston (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Brayden SchnurSchnur (6-3 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Julian LenzLenz (3-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktor TroickiTroicki – Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Blaz RolaRola (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis IstominIstomin – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-3 3-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-4 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tatsuma ItoIto – Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taro DanielDaniel – Denis IstominIstomin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Peter PolanskyPolansky (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Martin KlizanKlizan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (0-0) – H2H and prediction