Mikail Alimli and Oleksii Krutykh will fight against each other in the qualifications of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:30 am on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Oleksii Krutykh who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Oleksii Krutykh is the pick to win this match.
Oleksii Krutykh -> 1.043
Mikail Alimli -> 8.7
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Prediction and head to head Mikail Alimli vs. Oleksii Krutykh
There is no head to head record between Mikail Alimli and Oleksii Krutykh since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Mikail Alimli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-18 | 5-4 | 16-10 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2023 | 15-15 | 8-8 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2022 | 18-16 | 10-7 | 8-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-30 | 8-9 | 5-19 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Currently unranked, Alimli reached the qualifications after defeating Samuel Vincent Ruggeri 3-6 7-66 7-68.
In the qualifications against Vincent Ruggeri, The French player recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-66 7-68).During the match, Alimli scored less points (4) than Vincent Ruggeri. In fact, the world no. won 119 points vs Vincent Ruggeri’s. That means that Alimli was more focused during the important points. Alimli was pretty aggressive to blast 51 winners.
Regarding the service games, Alimli scored 6 aces and he committed only 8 double faults. Mikail Alimli lost the serve 5 times and he saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Alimli put 61% of his first serves in, winning 67% (51/76) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (23/49) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Vincent Ruggeri 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Alimli has a weak win-loss record in the last 3 years having won 42% of his matches (40-56). 5-5 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Alimli has a composed23-21 match record in the last 3 years on hard.
Alimli has an overall 9-10 win-loss record in 2023, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
Oleksii Krutykh
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-30 | 1-4 | 19-25 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-32 | 13-8 | 15-16 | 4-5 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 49-27 | 2-3 | 44-20 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-25 | 8-3 | 32-20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 13-7 | 7-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 253, Krutykh got to the qualifications after defeating Evgeny Karlovskiy 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Krutykh had a good straight sets win against Karlovskiy (6-1 6-2). During the match Krutykh scored 59 points vs Karlovskiy’s 36. The Ukrainian was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Krutykh managed to score 6 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Oleksii Krutykh conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 7 break points. Furthermore, Krutykh put 67% of his first serves in, winning 79% (30/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (9/19) on the 2nd serve. Oleksii broke Karlovskiy 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
The Ukrainian has a compiled 21-22 win-loss record in 2023, 11-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Alimli | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 35 | 15 |
| Pts | 119-123 | 59-36 |
| Total Points | 242 | 95 |
| Winners | 51 | 30 |
| %Winners | 43% | 51% |
Both Alimli and Krutykh played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Mikail Alimli lost 1 set while Oleksii Krutykh hasn’t conceded a set so far. Alimli has played 1 set more than Krutykh (3 vs 2). Therefore, Alimli played 20 games more than Krutykh. Alimli scored 51 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The Ukrainian managed to score 30 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Alimli | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 6 |
| 1st in | 76/125 | 38/57 |
| %1st in | 61% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 51/76 | 30/38 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 23/49 | 9/19 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 47% |
Alimli blasted 6 aces . Krutykh made 6 aces . Alimli won 67% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Krutykh won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 47% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Alimli | Krutykh |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 44% | 80% |
| Conceded | 16 | 7 |
| Saved | 11 | 7 |
| % Saved | 69% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 5 | 0 |
Alimli broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Alimli conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded. Krutykh broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Oleksii was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 7 break points.
| Alimli | |||
| Q1 Vincent |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 7-66 7-68 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 35 | 35 | |
| pts | 119-123 | 119-123 | |
| Total points | 242 | 242 | |
| Winners | 51 | 51 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 8 | |
| 1st in | 76/125 | 76/125 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 51/76 | 51/76 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/49 | 23/49 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 16 | 16 | |
| Saved | 11/16 | 11 | |
| Saved % | 69% | 69% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 5 | |
| Krutykh | |||
| Q1 Karlovskiy |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 59-36 | 59-36 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 38/57 | 38/57 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 30/38 | 30/38 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/19 | 9/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 7/7 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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