Denis Istomin and Alexander Cozbinov will square off in the 2nd round of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 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 Alexander Cozbinov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Cozbinov is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Cozbinov -> 0
Denis Istomin -> 0
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Denis Istomin
Ranked no. 165, the Uzbek will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match in Delray Beach where he lost 6-2 6-2 to Raonic in the 1st round the 18th of February.
Istomin has a 6-7 win-loss record in 2020, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Uzbek has an overall 445-395 record. He has negative 79-86 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in the Columbus Challenger
Istomin didn’t compete in the Columbus Challenger in 2019.
Alexander Cozbinov
Ranked no. 811, Cozbinov got to the 2nd round after beating Luca Castelnuovo 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Moldovan had a good straight sets win against Castelnuovo (6-3 6-2). During the match Cozbinov scored 54 points vs Castelnuovo’s 42. Cozbinov was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Cozbinov blasted 2 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alexander Cozbinov was extremely effective on serve to win 85% (23/27) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Alexander broke Castelnuovo 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Cozbinov has a fantastic record in the last 4 years having won 100% of his matches (4-0). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cozbinov has a 4-8 win-loss record in the last 4 years on indoor hard courts.
Alexander has a 4-6 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in the Columbus Challenger
Cozbinov didn’t compete in the Columbus Challenger in 2019.
Head 2 Head
LLLW Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Antoine EscoffierEscoffier (6-3 7-66) – See score progression
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Dudi SelaSela (7-5 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Andrew HarrisHarris (7-65 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Jeff WolfWolf – James WardWard (6-75 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Emilio GomezGomez – Ricardo Rodriguez-PaceRodriguez-Pace (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
- Strong KirchheimerStrong – Peter PolanskyPeter (4-6 6-1 7-6(5)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Sekou BangouraBangoura – John-Patrick SmithSmith (0-2) – See H2H details
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- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Lloyd GlasspoolGlasspool (0-0) – See H2H details
- Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard – Kevin KingKing (0-0) – See H2H details
- Matija PecoticPecotic – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (0-0) – See H2H details
- Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer – Jose Hernandez-FernandezHernandez-Fernandez (0-0) – See H2H details
- Alexander CozbinovCozbinov – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Johannes HaerteisHaerteis (0-1) – See H2H details
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – See H2H details
- Jeff WolfWolf – Roberto QuirozQuiroz (0-0) – See H2H details
