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H2H, PREDICTION Tallon Griekspoor vs Aslan Karatsev | Prague II Challenger odds, preview, pick

PREVIEW. Prague II Challenger. Griekspoor and Karatsev will fight against each other in the final of the Prague II Challenger. See the prediction, H2H stats, odds, and preview of their impending match

Mark Hall

30 August 2020

Prediction and head to head Tallon Griekspoor vs. Aslan Karatsev

Tallon Griekspoor and Aslan Karatsev will fight against each other in the final of the Prague II Challenger for the 2^nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11 am on Court 6. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tallon Griekspoor who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Tallon Griekspoor is the pick to win this match.
Tallon Griekspoor -> 1.74
Aslan Karatsev -> 2.09

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Prediction and head to head Tallon Griekspoor vs. Aslan Karatsev

This will be the 2^nd time that Tallon Griekspoor and Aslan Karatsev square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Griekspoor (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

Tallon Griekspoor

Ranked no. 173, Tallon got to the final after defeating Lukas Klein 6-4 7-6⁵, Kimmer Coppejans 7-6³ 6-3, Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-1 6-1, Robin Haase 6-3 6-2 and Lukas Rosol 6-4 7-5.

In the semifinal, Griekspoor had a good straight sets win against Rosol (6-4 7-5). During the match Griekspoor scored 74 points vs Rosol’s 61. Tallon was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.

Regarding the service games, Griekspoor recorded 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Tallon Griekspoor lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Griekspoor put 64% of his first serves in, winning 74% (35/47) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Tallon broke Rosol 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Tallon hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.

Griekspoor has a losing record in the last 6 years having won 35% of his matches (293-157). 8-1 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Griekspoor has a 212-121 win-loss record in the last 6 years on clay.

Griekspoor’s best result of the current year was getting to the semi-finals in the Prague II Challenger.

The Dutch has a 14-5 win-loss record in 2020, 8-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Prague II Challenger

The Dutch didn’t play in the Prague II Challenger in 2019.

Aslan Karatsev

Ranked no. 194, Aslan reached the final after beating Enzo Couacaud 3-6 7-5 7-5, Steven Diez 6-1 6-2, Ernests Gulbis 6-2 6-1, Stan Wawrinka w/o and Dmitry Popko 7-5 4-6 7-5.

In the semifinal, Aslan defeated Popko (7-5 4-6 7-5). During the match Karatsev and Popko scored the same amount of points (99). However, the world no. 173 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Russian was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.

Talking about serving, Karatsev scored 4 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Aslan Karatsev was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (43/59) of his 1st serve and 59% (22/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Aslan broke Popko 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Aslan has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.

Karatsev has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (625-425). 9-1 on clay in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Karatsev has a 301-204 record in the last 9 years on clay.

Karatsev’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Bangkok Challenger and the Prague Challenger.

Karatsev has a 19-6 win-loss record in 2020, 9-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Prague II Challenger

Aslan didn’t compete in the Prague II Challenger in 2019.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Griekspoor	Karatsev
Match played	5	4
Tot Set	10	10
Tot Games	98	97
Pts	341-276	329-279
Total Points	617	608
Winners	154	116
%Winners	45%	35%

Griekspoor played 5 matches while Karatsev competed in 4 matches. At the moment, Aslan Karatsev lost 2 sets while Tallon Griekspoor hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Talking about their workload, Griekspoor and Karatsev have played the same amount of sets 10. However, Griekspoor played 1 game more than Karatsev. The Dutch scored 154 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian bagged 116 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Griekspoor	Karatsev
Aces	21	13
Avg per match	4.2	3.3
1st in	206/322	156/289
%1st in	64%	54%
1st pts	154/206	116/156
%1st pts	75%	74%
2nd pts	59/116	74/133
%2nd pts	51%	56%

Griekspoor scored 21 aces (4.2 per match). Karatsev scored 13 aces (3.3 per match). Griekspoor won 75% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Karatsev won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Griekspoor	Karatsev
Won	18	18
Converted	18/36	18/36
% Converted	50%	50%
Conceded	21	23
Saved	15	16
% Saved	71%	70%
Times Broken	6	7

Griekspoor broke his opponents 18 times with a 50% conversion rate. Griekspoor conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Aslan broke his opponents 18 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.

	R1 Klein	R2 Coppejans	R3 Stakhovsky	1/4 Haase	1/2 Rosol	Total
Griekspoor
Score	6-4 7-6⁵	7-6³ 6-3	6-1 6-1	6-3 6-2	6-4 7-5
Tot Set	2	2	2	2	2	10
Tot Games	23	22	14	17	22	98
pts	78-72	75-64	55-34	59-45	74-61	341-276
Total points	150	139	89	104	135	617
Winners	35	37	23	24	35	154
%Winners	45%	49%	42%	41%	47%	45%
SERVE
Aces	6	9	3	0	3	21
Double Faults	1	2	1	3	1	8
1st in	50/72	51/79	28/46	30/52	47/73	206/322
% 1st in	69%	65%	61%	58%	64%	64%
1st pts	35/50	37/51	23/28	24/30	35/47	154/206
% 1st pts	70%	73%	82%	80%	74%	75%
2nd pts	11/22	14/28	8/18	13/22	13/26	59/116
% 2nd pts	50%	50%	44%	59%	50%	51%
Breaks
Won	3	3	5	3	4	18
Converted	3/7	3/6	5/8	3/9	4/6	18/36
Converted %	43%	50%	63%	33%	67%	50%
Conceded	4	6	3	1	7	21
Saved	2/4	4/6	3/3	1/1	5/7	15
Saved %	50%	67%	100%	100%	71%	78%
Times Broken	2	2	0	0	2	6

	R1 Couacaud	R2 Diez	R3 Gulbis	1/4 Wawrinka	1/2 Popko	Total
Karatsev
Score	3-6 7-5 7-5	6-1 6-2	6-2 6-1	w/o	7-5 4-6 7-5
Tot Set	3	2	2	1	3	11
Tot Games	33	15	15	0	34	97
pts	109-104	60-34	61-42	–	99-99	329-279
Total points	213	94	103	0	198	608
Winners	38	19	16		43	116
%Winners	35%	32%	26%	NAN%	43%	35%
SERVE
Aces	1	7	1	0	4	13
Double Faults	5	2	2		5	14
1st in	56/101	22/49	19/43	/	59/96	156/289
% 1st in	55%	45%	44%	NAN%	61%	54%
1st pts	38/56	19/22	16/19	/	43/59	116/156
% 1st pts	68%	86%	84%	NAN%	73%	74%
2nd pts	25/45	13/27	14/24	/	22/37	74/133
% 2nd pts	56%	48%	58%	NAN%	59%	56%
Breaks
Won	5	5	5		3	18
Converted	5/12	5/9	5/9	/	3/6	18/36
Converted %	42%	56%	56%	NAN%	50%	50%
Conceded	14	4	2		3	23
Saved	10/14	3/4	2/2	0/	1/3	16
Saved %	71%	75%	100%	–	33%	56%
Times Broken	4	1	0		2	7