Alexei Popyrin and Arthur Cazaux will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 1:00 pm on COURT 5. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexei Popyrin who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.35
Arthur Cazaux -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Arthur Cazaux
There is no head to head record between Alexei Popyrin and Arthur Cazaux since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Alexei Popyrin
Ranked no. 77 (career high), Popyrin reached the qualifications after defeating Federico Coria 6-74 6-4 6-3.
In the qualifications against Coria, Alexei recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-4 6-3).-103) than Coria. In fact, the world no. 77 won 103 points vs Coria’s. That means that Popyrin was more focused during the important points. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 55 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popyrin managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Alexei Popyrin lost the serve once and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Popyrin put 63% of his first serves in, winning 75% (55/73) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (19/43) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Coria 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Popyrin has a solid match record in the last 6 years having won 60% of his matches (177-117). 5-3 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Popyrin has a 54-36 match record in the last 6 years on clay.
His best result of the current season was winning the title in in Singapore where he defeated Alexander Bublik in the final 4-6 6-0 6-2.
Alexei has a 16-7 win-loss record in 2021, 5-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Popyrin has never competed in this tournament before.
Arthur Cazaux
Ranked no. 603 (career high), Arthur got to the qualifications after beating Sebastian Korda 7-63 6-4.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Korda (7-63 6-4). During the match Cazaux scored 73 points vs Korda’s 67. Arthur was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Cazaux bagged 5 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Arthur Cazaux lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Cazaux put 69% of his first serves in, winning 73% (36/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Cazaux broke Korda 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Cazaux’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Meerbusch.
Cazaux has a 12-4 win-loss record in 2021, 7-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Madrid
Arthur has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popyrin | Cazaux |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 23 |
| Pts | 103-104 | 73-67 |
| Total Points | 207 | 140 |
| Winners | 55 | 36 |
| %Winners | 53% | 49% |
Both Popyrin and Cazaux played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Alexei Popyrin dropped 1 set while Arthur Cazaux hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Popyrin has played 1 set more than Cazaux (3 vs 2). Therefore, Popyrin played 9 games more than Cazaux. The Australian scored 55 winners (53% of the total points). On the other side, Arthur blasted 36 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popyrin | Cazaux |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 5 |
| 1st in | 73/116 | 49/71 |
| %1st in | 63% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 55/73 | 36/49 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 19/43 | 11/22 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 50% |
Popyrin blasted 6 aces . Cazaux scored 5 aces . Popyrin won 75% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Cazaux won 73% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popyrin | Cazaux |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 44% | 50% |
| Conceded | 12 | 4 |
| Saved | 11 | 2 |
| % Saved | 92% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Alexei broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Popyrin surrendered his serve once and he saved 92% of the break points that he conceded. The French player broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Cazaux conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popyrin | |||
| Q1 Coria |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-74 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 103-104 | 103-104 | |
| Total points | 207 | 207 | |
| Winners | 55 | 55 | |
| %Winners | 53% | 53% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 73/116 | 73/116 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 55/73 | 55/73 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/43 | 19/43 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 11/12 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 92% | 92% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Cazaux | |||
| Q1 Korda |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 73-67 | 73-67 | |
| Total points | 140 | 140 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 49/71 | 49/71 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 36/49 | 36/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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