Dmitry Popko and Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera will play each other in the 2nd round of the Almaty 2 Challenger for the 2nd 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 prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera is the pick to win this match.
Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera -> 1.533
Dmitry Popko -> 2.5
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera
This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Tomas Barrios Vera (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tomas Barrios Vera won 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in the Zagreb Challenger back in May 2021.
Dmitry Popko
Ranked no. 186, Dmitry reached the 2nd round after defeating Nino Serdarusic 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Popko had a good straight sets win against Serdarusic (6-4 6-3). During the match, Popko scored 70 points vs Serdarusic’s 60. Dmitry was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popko couldn’t to score even 1 ace throughout the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Dmitry Popko lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Popko put 54% of his first serves in, winning 65% (22/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the 2nd serve. Popko broke Serdarusic 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Popko has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (342-189). 7-9 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Popko has an overall201-96 win-loss record in the last 9 years on clay.
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Almaty 1 Challenger.
Popko has a compiled 11-16 win-loss record in 2021, 7-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Almaty 2 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See his history.
Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera
Ranked no. 232, the Chilean got to the 2nd round after defeating Vladyslav Orlov 7-63 6-2.
In the 1st round, Marcelo had a good straight sets win against Orlov (7-63 6-2). During the match Tomas Barrios Vera scored 73 points vs Orlov’s 58. Tomas Barrios Vera was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
About the serving games, Tomas Barrios Vera fired 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Tomas Barrios Vera put 71% of his first serves in, winning 75% (33/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (7/18) on the 2nd serve. Tomas Barrios Vera broke Orlov 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).
Marcelo’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Santiago Challenger.
Tomas Barrios Vera has a compiled 20-16 win-loss record in 2021, 17-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Tomas Barrios Vera |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 21 |
| Pts | 70-60 | 73-58 |
| Total Points | 130 | 131 |
| Winners | 22 | 33 |
| %Winners | 31% | 45% |
Both Popko and Tomas Barrios Vera played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Popko and Tomas Barrios Vera have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Popko played 2 games less than Tomas Barrios Vera. Dmitry scored 22 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Tomas Barrios Vera scored 33 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Tomas Barrios Vera |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 0 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 0 | 3 |
| 1st in | 34/63 | 44/62 |
| %1st in | 54% | 71% |
| 1st pts | 22/34 | 33/44 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 7/18 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 39% |
Popko didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Tomas Barrios Vera made 3 aces . Popko won 65% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Tomas Barrios Vera won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 39% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popko | Tomas Barrios Vera |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 4/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 50% |
| Conceded | 6 | 3 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 67% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Dmitry lost his serve twice and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Marcelo broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Chilean conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popko | |||
| R1 Serdarusic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 70-60 | 70-60 | |
| Total points | 130 | 130 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 34/63 | 34/63 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 22/34 | 22/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 65% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 4/6 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Tomas Barrios Vera | |||
| R1 Orlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 73-58 | 73-58 | |
| Total points | 131 | 131 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 44/62 | 44/62 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 33/44 | 33/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/18 | 7/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 39% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Almaty 2 Challenger
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Mirza BasicBasic – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Pavel KotovKotov – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Ergi KirkinKirkin (6-4 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (6-710 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Vladyslav OrlovOrlov (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrej MartinMartin – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (6-4 7-611) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (7-5 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili – Pedja KrstinKrstin (3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Denis IstominIstomin (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (4-6 6-3 4-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Joao MenezesMenezes – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Mohamed SafwatSafwat – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Teimuraz GabashviliGabashvili – Jesper De JongDe Jong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrej MartinMartin – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao MenezesMenezes – Mirza BasicBasic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera – Dmitry PopkoPopko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pavel KotovKotov – Zizou BergsBergs (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Carlos Gimeno ValeroGimeno Valero – Brayden SchnurSchnur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
