Jiri Vesely and Egor Gerasimov will square off in the 2nd round of the Astana Open for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. 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 Egor Gerasimov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Egor Gerasimov is the pick to win this match.
Egor Gerasimov -> 1.81
Jiri Vesely -> 2.05
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Prediction and head to head Jiri Vesely vs. Egor Gerasimov
This will be the 3rd time that Jiri Vesely and Egor Gerasimov clash against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Vesely and Gerasimov (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
Jiri Vesely
Ranked no. 66, Jiri got to the 2nd round after defeating Tennys Sandgren 6-4 7-67.
In the 1st round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Sandgren (6-4 7-67). During the match Vesely scored 74 points vs Sandgren’s 69. The Czech was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Regarding the service games, Vesely fired 9 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Jiri Vesely was exceptionally efficent on serve to win 72% (34/47) of his 1st serve and 72% (18/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Vesely broke Sandgren once after converting 25% of his break points (1/4).
Vesely has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 61% of his matches (357-227). 4-1 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Vesely has a 30-34 record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
His best result of the season was managing to win the title in Pune where he overcame Egor Gerasimov in the final 7-6(2) 5-7 6-3.
Vesely has a 21-11 win-loss record in 2020, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Nur-Sultan
Jiri didn’t play in Nur-Sultan in 2019.
Egor Gerasimov
Ranked no. 83, Gerasimov reached the 2nd round after beating Lloyd Harris 6-3 3-6 7-63.
In the 1st round, The Belarussian defeated Lloyd (6-3 3-6 7-63). During the match Gerasimov scored 89 points vs Lloyd’s 87. Egor was exceptionally aggressive to blast 38 winners.
Talking about serving, Gerasimov struck 8 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Egor Gerasimov was extremely efficent on serve to win 76% (38/50) of his 1st serve and 63% (25/40) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve 3 times. Egor broke Lloyd 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Gerasimov’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in Pune.
Gerasimov has a 16-13 win-loss record in 2020, 9-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Nur-Sultan
The Belarussian lost in the quarter to Khumoun Sultanov.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vesely | Gerasimov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 23 | 31 |
| Pts | 74-69 | 89-87 |
| Total Points | 143 | 176 |
| Winners | 34 | 38 |
| %Winners | 46% | 43% |
Both Vesely and Gerasimov played 1 match. At the moment, Egor Gerasimov dropped 1 set while Jiri Vesely hasn’t conceded a set so far. Vesely has played 1 set(s) less than Gerasimov (2 vs 3). Therefore, Vesely played 8 games less than Gerasimov. Vesely scored 34 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, The Belarussian scored 38 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vesely | Gerasimov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 8 |
| 1st in | 47/72 | 50/90 |
| %1st in | 65% | 56% |
| 1st pts | 34/47 | 38/50 |
| %1st pts | 72% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 18/25 | 25/40 |
| %2nd pts | 72% | 63% |
Vesely struck 9 aces . Gerasimov bagged 8 aces . Vesely won 72% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 72% of the points. On the other side, Gerasimov won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vesely | Gerasimov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 3 |
| Converted | 1/4 | 3/5 |
| % Converted | 25% | 60% |
| Conceded | 5 | 6 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
Vesely broke his opponent once with a 25% conversion rate. The Czech was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 5 break points. Egor broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Gerasimov conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Vesely | |||
| R1 Sandgren |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-67 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 74-69 | 74-69 | |
| Total points | 143 | 143 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 47/72 | 47/72 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 34/47 | 34/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 72% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/25 | 18/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/4 | 1/4 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 25% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Gerasimov | |||
| R1 Lloyd |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 3-6 7-63 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 31 | 31 | |
| pts | 89-87 | 89-87 | |
| Total points | 176 | 176 | |
| Winners | 38 | 38 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 50/90 | 50/90 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 38/50 | 38/50 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/40 | 25/40 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLLLLLLL Tennis Scores in Nur
- Yuichi SugitaSugita – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-1 5-7 6-4) – See score progression
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (6-3 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Jiri VeselyVesely – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 7-67) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Lloyd HarrisHarris (6-3 3-6 7-63) – See score progression
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Timofey SkatovSkatov (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Tommy PaulPaul – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Corentin MoutetMoutet (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Cameron NorrieNorrie (5-7 7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Dmitry PopkoPopko (4-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
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- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Yuichi SugitaSugita (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Federico DelbonisDelbonis – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Mackenzie McdonaldMcdonald – Alexander BublikBublik (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Tommy PaulPaul – Radu AlbotAlbot (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
