Alexei Popyrin and Jiri Vesely will square off in the qualifications of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 12:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexei Popyrin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexei Popyrin is the pick to win this match.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.55
Jiri Vesely -> 2.45
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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Jiri Vesely
There is no head to head record between Alexei Popyrin and Jiri Vesely since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-22 | 17-8 | 4-8 | 4-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-16 | 3-4 | 5-5 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 66, the Australian reached the qualifications after beating Altug Celikbilek 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Celikbilek (7-5 6-2). During the match, Popyrin scored 60 points vs Celikbilek’s 37. Popyrin was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popyrin scored 13 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Alexei Popyrin was very efficient on serve to win 90% (27/30) of his 1st serve and 93% (13/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Australian broke Celikbilek 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Popyrin has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (185-137). 2-3 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Popyrin has an overall96-64 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.
Popyrin has an aggregate 2-6 win-loss record in 2022, 2-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Jiri Vesely
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-27 | 6-8 | 7-12 | 6-6 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-15 | 5-3 | 3-7 | 1-1 | 1-3 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 20-19 | 12-10 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-27 | 4-5 | 8-12 | 9-5 | 2-3 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 21-12 | 8-5 | 9-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 121, Jiri reached the qualifications after beating Hady Habib 6-1 5-7 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Czech defeated Habib (6-1 5-7 6-3). During the match Vesely scored 92 points vs Habib’s 63. The Czech was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.
About the serving games, Vesely overpowered his opponent with 24 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Jiri Vesely was very effective on serve to win 95% (42/44) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Czech broke Habib 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Jiri has a composed 6-6 win-loss record in 2022, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Dubai
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016, 2017 and 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popyrin | Vesely |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 28 |
| Pts | 60-37 | 92-63 |
| Total Points | 97 | 155 |
| Winners | 27 | 42 |
| %Winners | 45% | 46% |
Both Popyrin and Vesely played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Jiri Vesely lost 1 set while Alexei Popyrin hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Popyrin has played 1 set(s) less than Vesely (2 vs 3). Therefore, Popyrin played 8 games less than Vesely. Popyrin scored 27 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Jiri fired 42 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popyrin | Vesely |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 13 | 24 |
| Avg per match | 13 | 24 |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 44/65 |
| %1st in | 68% | 68% |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 42/44 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 95% |
| 2nd pts | 13/14 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 93% | 57% |
Popyrin recorded 13 aces . Vesely struck 24 aces . Popyrin won 90% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 93% of the points. On the other side, Vesely won 95% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popyrin | Vesely |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 4 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/9 |
| % Converted | 75% | 44% |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Australian broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Popyrin pretty solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Jiri broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Vesely conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popyrin | |||
| Q1 Celikbilek |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 60-37 | 60-37 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 13 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 30/44 | 30/44 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 27/30 | 27/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/14 | 13/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 93% | 93% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Vesely | |||
| Q1 Habib |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 5-7 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 92-63 | 92-63 | |
| Total points | 155 | 155 | |
| Winners | 42 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 24 | 24 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 44/65 | 44/65 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 42/44 | 42/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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