Karen Khachanov and Aslan Karatsev will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the St. Petersburg Open for the 4^th time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. 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 Karen Khachanov who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karen Khachanov is the pick to win this match.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.22
Aslan Karatsev -> 4.5

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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Aslan Karatsev

This will be the 4^th time that Karen Khachanov and Aslan Karatsev play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Khachanov (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on indoor hard courts.

Karen Khachanov

Ranked no. 17, Karen reached the 2^nd round after beating James Duckworth 6-4 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Khachanov had a good straight sets win against Duckworth (6-4 6-4). During the match Khachanov scored 64 points vs Duckworth’s 49. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about the service games, Khachanov struck 2 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Karen Khachanov was exceptionally efficent on serve to win 74% (25/34) of his 1st serve and 68% (15/22) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Karen broke Duckworth 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).

Khachanov has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (285-190). 2-2 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Khachanov has a 89-58 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

Khachanov has a 18-11 win-loss record in 2020, 2-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in St. Petersburg

The Russian lost in the 2^nd round to Joao Sousa.

Aslan Karatsev

Ranked no. 117, Aslan got to the 2^nd round after defeating Tennys Sandgren 7-5 3-6 7-5.

In the 1^st round, The Russian defeated Sandgren (7-5 3-6 7-5). During the match Karatsev scored 102 points vs Sandgren’s 96. Aslan was extremely aggressive to blast 48 winners.

Talking about serving, Karatsev scored 8 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Aslan Karatsev lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Karatsev put 62% of his first serves in, winning 83% (48/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 37% (13/35) on the 2nd serve. Karatsev broke Sandgren 4 times after converting 50% of his break points (4/8).

Karatsev’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Bangkok Challenger,the Prague Challenger,the Prague II Challenger and the Ostrava Challenger.

Aslan has a 28-7 win-loss record in 2020, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in St. Petersburg

Karatsev had to surrender in the qualifications to Damir Dzumhur.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Khachanov and Karatsev played 1 match. At the moment, Aslan Karatsev lost 1 set while Karen Khachanov hasn’t dropped a set so far. Khachanov has played 1 set(s) less than Karatsev (2 vs 3). Therefore, Khachanov played 13 games less than Karatsev. Khachanov scored 25 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Aslan managed to score 48 winners (47%).

Serve Performance

Khachanov scored 2 aces . Karatsev blasted 8 aces . Khachanov won 74% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Karatsev won 83% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 37% of the points.

How they played the important points

The Russian broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Karen lost his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. Aslan conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Karen
Khachanov

6:2

Aslan
Karatsev

Rank

21

High

8

2Hard0

2I.hard2

2Grass0

Rank

102

High

14

Win Loss

Khachanov

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Karatsev

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21 - 14

2 - 9

10-6

Hard

1-3

2-1

I Hard

0-0

8-4

Clay

1-4

1-3

Grass

0-2

Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg

• Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (6-1 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cameron NorrieNorrie – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (7-5 6-7⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Alexander BublikBublik – Milos RaonicRaonic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ilya IvashkaIvashka – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ugo HumbertHumbert – Andrey RublevRublev (0-1) – H2H and prediction

Khachanov

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Karatsev