Denis Istomin and Sekou Bangoura will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the the Newport Beach Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Istomin who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Denis Istomin is the pick to win this match.
Denis Istomin -> 1.44
Sekou Bangoura -> 2.62
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Denis Istomin
Ranked no. 170, Istomin will start his run in the Newport Beach Challenger after he played his last match in the Bangkok Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Gaio in the 3rd round the 23rd of January.
Denis has a 2-2 win-loss record in 2020, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Uzbek has an overall 441-390 record. He has positive 198-138 record on hard.
Last year in the Newport Beach Challenger
Denis didn’t compete in the Newport Beach Challenger in 2019.
Sekou Bangoura
Ranked no. 307, Bangoura got to the 2nd round after beating Dmitry Popko 7-63 4-6 6-4.
In the 1st round, Sekou defeated Popko (7-63 4-6 6-4). During the match Bangoura scored 100 points vs Popko’s 99. Sekou was extremely aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Bangoura blasted 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Sekou Bangoura lost the serve twice and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Bangoura put 52% of his first serves in, winning 85% (41/48) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (22/44) on the 2nd serve. Sekou broke Popko twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Bangoura has won exactly 50% of his matches (403-396) in the last 10 years. 1-1 on hard in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Bangoura has a 115-125 win-loss record in the last 10 years on hard.
Sekou has a 2-2 win-loss record in 2020, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Newport Beach Challenger
The American didn’t compete in the Newport Beach Challenger in 2019.
Head 2 Head
LWLLWWLLLL Tennis Scores in Newport Beach Challenger
- Raymond SarmientoSarmiento – Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Marcos GironGiron (6-4 3-6 7-65) – See score progression
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Maxime CressyCressy (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski – Emilio GomezGomez (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Denis IstominIstomin – Sekou BangouraBangoura (0-0) – See H2H details
- Donald YoungYoung – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (0-0) – See H2H details
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – See H2H details
- Marius CopilCopil – Michael RedlickiRedlicki (0-0) – See H2H details
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-1) – See H2H details
- Jc AragoneAragone – Andreas SeppiSeppi (0-0) – See H2H details
- Brayden SchnurSchnur – Thai KwiatkowskiKwiatkowski (0-1) – See H2H details
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Jason JungJung (0-2) – See H2H details
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Rudolf MollekerMolleker (0-0) – See H2H details
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Agustin VelottiVelotti (0-1) – See H2H details
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (0-1) – See H2H details
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (1-1) – See H2H details
- Sebastian KordaKorda – Bradley KlahnKlahn (0-0) – See H2H details
