Lucio Ratti and Khumoun Sultanov will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Astana Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lucio Ratti who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lucio Ratti is the pick to win this match.
Lucio Ratti -> 1.84
Khumoun Sultanov -> 1.84
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Prediction and head to head Lucio Ratti vs. Khumoun Sultanov
There is no head to head record between Lucio Ratti and Khumoun Sultanov since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Lucio Ratti
38 - 17win/loss
383
364
LLLWWLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 42-23 | 1-2 | 41-21 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 51-28 | 8-3 | 42-24 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 21-14 | 3-1 | 18-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-27 | 0-0 | 18-27 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 380, Ratti reached the 2nd round after defeating Tai Sach 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Lucio had a good straight sets win against Sach (6-3 6-3). During the match, Ratti scored 70 points vs Sach’s 57. The Argentine was very aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Regarding the service games, Ratti struck 2 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Lucio Ratti lost the serve once and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ratti put 64% of his first serves in, winning 78% (29/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (9/21) on the 2nd serve. The Argentine broke Sach 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Ratti has a winning record in the last 5 years having won 59% of his matches (133-92). 1-1 on hard in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Ratti has an overall12-5 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Ratti’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Punta del Este and M15 Slovenska Bistrica.
The Argentine has a compiled 38-17 win-loss record in 2026, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Astana Challenger
Ratti has never competed in this tournament before.
Khumoun Sultanov
31 - 12win/loss
439
215
LLLWWWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36-16 | 15-7 | 21-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 15-20 | 12-14 | 2-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 74-23 | 55-14 | 19-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-24 | 28-9 | 7-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2022 | 35-22 | 4-3 | 25-13 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 508, Khumoun got to the 2nd round after defeating Alexandr Binda 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Uzbek had a good straight sets win against Binda (6-3 6-2). During the match Sultanov scored 62 points vs Binda’s 42. The Uzbek was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Sultanov fired 7 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Khumoun Sultanov was extremely efficient on serve to win 75% (24/32) of his 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sultanov broke Binda 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
The Uzbek’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Zahra,M15 Kranjska Gora and M25 Zagreb.
Sultanov has an aggregate 31-12 win-loss record in 2026, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ratti | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 17 |
| Pts | 70-57 | 62-42 |
| Total Points | 127 | 104 |
| Winners | 29 | 24 |
| %Winners | 41% | 39% |
Both Ratti and Sultanov played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Ratti and Sultanov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Ratti played 1 game more than Sultanov. Ratti scored 29 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Khumoun struck 24 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ratti | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 7 |
| 1st in | 37/58 | 32/46 |
| %1st in | 64% | 70% |
| 1st pts | 29/37 | 24/32 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 9/21 | 9/14 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 64% |
Ratti blasted 2 aces . Sultanov made 7 aces . Ratti won 78% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Sultanov won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ratti | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/11 |
| % Converted | 33% | 36% |
| Conceded | 6 | 1 |
| Saved | 5 | 0 |
| % Saved | 83% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Ratti broke his opponent 4 times with a 33% conversion rate. Lucio dropped his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Khumoun broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. The Uzbek conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ratti | |||
| R1 Sach |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 70-57 | 70-57 | |
| Total points | 127 | 127 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 41% | 41% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 37/58 | 37/58 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 29/37 | 29/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/21 | 9/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 43% | 43% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/12 | 4/12 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Sultanov | |||
| R1 Binda |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-42 | 62-42 | |
| Total points | 104 | 104 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/46 | 32/46 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 70% | |
| 1st pts | 24/32 | 24/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/14 | 9/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Sergey FominFomin – Kasidit SamrejSamrej (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Mert AlkayaAlkaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – (2-0) – H2H and prediction
