Karen Khachanov and Jiri Vesely will play each other in the 2^nd round of the French Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11 am on Court 14. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karen Khachanov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.23
Jiri Vesely -> 4.4

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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Jiri Vesely

There is no head to head record between Karen Khachanov and Jiri Vesely since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Karen Khachanov

Ranked no. 16, Karen got to the 2^nd round after beating Kamil Majchrzak 7-6³ 6-3 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Khachanov had a good straight sets win against Majchrzak (7-6³ 6-3 6-3). During the match Khachanov scored 101 points vs Majchrzak’s 82. Karen was pretty aggressive to blast 51 winners.

Regarding the service games, Khachanov recorded 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Karen Khachanov lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Khachanov put 72% of his first serves in, winning 78% (51/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. Karen broke Majchrzak 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).

Khachanov has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (282-189). 2-2 on clay in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Khachanov has a 72-49 record in the last 9 years on clay.

Khachanov has a 15-10 win-loss record in 2020, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

The Russian lost in the quarter to Dominic Thiem.

Jiri Vesely

Ranked no. 68, Vesely got to the 2^nd round after beating Liam Broady 6-2 5-7 6-3 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Jiri defeated Broady (6-2 5-7 6-3 6-2). During the match Vesely scored 132 points vs Broady’s 102. Vesely was exceptionally aggressive to blast 58 winners.

Talking about serving, Vesely struck 14 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Jiri Vesely was quite efficent on serve to win 76% (58/76) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Jiri broke Broady 6 times after converting 40% of his break points (6/15).

His best result of the current year was winning the title in Pune where he beat Egor Gerasimov in the final 7-6(2) 5-7 6-3.

Vesely has a 18-9 win-loss record in 2020, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year at the French Open

Vesely lost in the 1^st round to Leonardo Mayer.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Khachanov and Vesely played 1 match. At the moment, Jiri Vesely lost 1 set while Karen Khachanov hasn’t dropped a set so far. Khachanov has played 1 set(s) less than Vesely (3 vs 4). Therefore, Khachanov played 6 games less than Vesely. Khachanov scored 51 winners (50% of the total points). On the other side, Jiri bagged 58 winners (44%).

Serve Performance

Khachanov managed to score 6 aces . Vesely made 14 aces . Khachanov won 78% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Vesely won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.

How they played the important points

Khachanov broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. The Russian lost his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Jiri broke his opponent 6 times with a 40% conversion rate. Vesely conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Karen
Khachanov

2:0

Jiri
Vesely

Rank

22

High

8

2Clay0

Rank

260

High

35

Win Loss

Khachanov

LWLLLWLWWL

Vesely

LLWLLWLLLL

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21 - 13

8 - 19

10-5

Hard

0-4

2-1

I Hard

0-3

8-4

Clay

7-11

1-3

Grass

1-1

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Khachanov

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