Ramkumar Ramanathan and Alexey Zakharov will square off in the 2nd round of the Pune Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 2:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Ramkumar Ramanathan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Ramkumar Ramanathan is the pick to win this match.
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 1.78
Alexey Zakharov -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Ramkumar Ramanathan vs. Alexey Zakharov
There is no head to head record between Ramkumar Ramanathan and Alexey Zakharov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
6 - 3win/loss
309
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LLLWLWLWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-25 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-21 | 25-12 | 0-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 15-34 | 4-13 | 4-8 | 2-6 | 4-6 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 45-32 | 23-11 | 8-7 | 5-8 | 7-4 | 2-2 |
| 2020 | 8-18 | 3-8 | 0-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 |
Ranked no. 420, the Indian got to the 2nd round after beating Stefano Napolitano 7-65 7-65.
In the 1st round, Ramanathan had a good straight sets win against Napolitano (7-65 7-65). During the match, Ramanathan scored 89 points vs Napolitano’s 82. Ramkumar was pretty aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ramanathan fired 15 aces and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Ramkumar Ramanathan was pretty efficient on serve to win 84% (43/51) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Indian broke Napolitano once after converting 11% of his break points (1/9).
Ramanathan has favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (307-277). 5-3 on hard in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Ramanathan has an overall 184-140 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Ramkumar has a composed 6-3 win-loss record in 2024, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Pune Challenger
Alexey Zakharov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 40-26 | 25-16 | 15-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-8 | 21-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-8 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 610, Alexey got to the 2nd round after beating Moez Echargui 5-7 6-4 6-3, Yunseong Chung 6-3 5-7 6-4 and Oliver Crawford 7-64 6-3.
In the 1st round, Zakharov had a good straight sets win against Crawford (7-64 6-3). During the match Zakharov scored 73 points vs Crawford’s 63. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about serving, Zakharov bagged 15 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Alexey Zakharov was very efficient on serve to win 74% (37/50) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Alexey broke Crawford twice after converting 25% of his break points (2/8).
The Russian has an aggregate 13-5 win-loss record in 2024, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ramanathan | Zakharov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 26 | 84 |
| Pts | 89-82 | 283-261 |
| Total Points | 171 | 544 |
| Winners | 43 | 136 |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% |
Ramanathan played 1 match while Zakharov competed in 3 matches. Zakharov started his run from the qualifications while Ramanathan had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Alexey Zakharov surrendered 2 sets while Ramkumar Ramanathan hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Ramanathan has played 6 set(s) less than Zakharov (2 vs 8). Therefore, Ramanathan played 58 games less than Zakharov. Ramkumar scored 43 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian fired 136 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ramanathan | Zakharov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 15 | 32 |
| Avg per match | 15 | 10.7 |
| 1st in | 51/77 | 189/281 |
| %1st in | 66% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 43/51 | 136/189 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 16/26 | 52/92 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 57% |
Ramanathan scored 15 aces . Zakharov fired 32 aces (10.7 per match). Ramanathan won 84% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Zakharov won 72% 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 | Ramanathan | Zakharov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 8 |
| Converted | 1/9 | 8/29 |
| % Converted | 11% | 28% |
| Conceded | 2 | 29 |
| Saved | 1 | 24 |
| % Saved | 50% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 5 |
Ramanathan broke his opponent once with a 11% conversion rate. Ramkumar surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Zakharov broke his opponents 8 times with a 28% conversion rate. Alexey conceded his serve 5 times and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ramanathan | |||
| R1 Napolitano |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 89-82 | 89-82 | |
| Total points | 171 | 171 | |
| Winners | 43 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 15 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 51/77 | 51/77 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 43/51 | 43/51 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/26 | 16/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/9 | 1/9 | |
| Converted % | 11% | 11% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Zakharov | |||||
| Q1 Echargui |
Q3 Chung |
R1 Crawford |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 5-7 6-4 6-3 | 6-3 5-7 6-4 | 7-64 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | 22 | 84 | |
| pts | 118-110 | 92-88 | 73-63 | 283-261 | |
| Total points | 228 | 180 | 136 | 544 | |
| Winners | 48 | 51 | 37 | 136 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 55% | 51% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 8 | 9 | 15 | 32 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 72/113 | 67/97 | 50/71 | 189/281 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 69% | 70% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 48/72 | 51/67 | 37/50 | 136/189 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 76% | 74% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/41 | 16/30 | 14/21 | 52/92 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 53% | 67% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Converted | 4/15 | 2/6 | 2/8 | 8/29 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 33% | 25% | 28% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 8 | 9 | 29 | |
| Saved | 9/12 | 7/8 | 8/9 | 24 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 88% | 89% | 252% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
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