Dennis Novak and Prajnesh Gunneswaran will square off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dennis Novak who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dennis Novak is the pick to win this match.
Dennis Novak -> 1.40
Prajnesh Gunneswaran -> 2.75
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Prediction and head to head Dennis Novak vs. Prajnesh Gunneswaran
There is no head to head record between Dennis Novak and Prajnesh Gunneswaran since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Dennis Novak
Ranked no. 96, the Austrian reached the 1st round after beating Blaz Rola 7-63 6-73 6-4 and Yannick Hanfmann 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Dennis had a good straight sets win against Hanfmann (6-3 6-4). During the match Novak scored 71 points vs Hanfmann’s 58. Dennis was extremely aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about serving, Novak blasted 10 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Dennis Novak lost the serve once and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Novak put 65% of his first serves in, winning 76% (31/41) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. The Austrian broke Hanfmann 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dennis has conceded 1 set in this event to win 52% of the points he played.
Novak has a winning record in the last 10 years having won 53% of his matches (142-127). 6-3 on hard in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Novak has a 141-126 record in the last 10 years on hard.
The Austrian has a 8-6 win-loss record in 2020, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Dubai
Dennis didn’t play in Dubai in 2019.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Ranked no. 134, Gunneswaran will start his run in Dubai after he played his last match in the Bengalaru Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 6-0 to Bonzi in the 3rd round the 13th of February.
Prajnesh has a 5-5 win-loss record in 2020, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, The Indian has an overall 102-91 record. He has positive 71-54 record on hard.
Last year in Dubai
The Indian didn’t compete in Dubai in 2019.
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (7-62 6-1) – See score progression
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (4-6 6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicNovak – Malek JaziriMalek (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetRichard – Lloyd HarrisLloyd (7-6(5) 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (1-0) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber (11-2) – See H2H details
- Marin CilicCilic – Benoit PairePaire (5-1) – See H2H details
- Daniel EvansEvans – Fabio FogniniFognini (0-0) – See H2H details
- Joao SousaSousa – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (1-1) – See H2H details
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Dennis NovakNovak (0-0) – See H2H details
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (0-1) – See H2H details
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-2) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (1-1) – See H2H details
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Alexander BublikBublik (0-0) – See H2H details
