Alexei Popyrin and Sebastian Korda will fight against each other in the quarter of the Eckental Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 4:00 pm on CENTER COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sebastian Korda who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Sebastian Korda is the pick to win this match.
Sebastian Korda -> 1.72
Alexei Popyrin -> 2.12

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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Sebastian Korda

There is no head to head record between Alexei Popyrin and Sebastian Korda since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Alexei Popyrin

Ranked no. 110, Popyrin got to the quarter after beating Brayden Schnur 6-1 6-4 and Zdenek Kolar 6-4 6-4.

In the 2nd round, Alexei had a good straight sets win against Kolar (6-4 6-4). During the match Popyrin scored 63 points vs Kolar’s 52. The Australian was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Popyrin bagged 5 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Alexei Popyrin lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Popyrin put 55% of his first serves in, winning 93% (27/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 29% (7/24) on the 2nd serve. The Australian broke Kolar 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Australian hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Popyrin has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 60% of his matches (161-109). 2-0 on carpet in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Popyrin has a 2-0 match record in the last 5 years on carpet.

The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semi-finals in the Parma Challenger.

Alexei has a 14-15 win-loss record in 2020, 2-0 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

Last year in the Eckental Challenger

Alexei didn’t compete in the Eckental Challenger in 2019.

Sebastian Korda

Ranked no. 136, Korda reached the quarter after defeating Tomas Machac 7-60 6-1 and Johannes Haerteis 6-2 1-6 6-1.

In the 2nd round, Korda defeated Haerteis (6-2 1-6 6-1). During the match Korda scored 79 points vs Haerteis’s 67. Korda was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Talking about serving, Korda blasted 11 aces and he was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Sebastian Korda lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Korda put 63% of his first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the 2nd serve. Sebastian broke Haerteis 4 times after converting 24% of his break points (4/17).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The American has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

The American has a 19-10 win-loss record in 2020, 4-1 on carpet (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Popyrin Korda
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 4 5
Tot Games 37 42
Pts 117-87 152-120
Total Points 204 272
Winners 50 55
%Winners 43% 36%

Both Popyrin and Korda played 2 matches. At the moment, Sebastian Korda dropped 1 set while Alexei Popyrin hasn’t conceded a set so far. Popyrin has played 1 set(s) less than Korda (4 vs 5). Therefore, Popyrin played 5 games less than Korda. Alexei scored 50 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The American struck 55 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve Popyrin Korda
Aces 15 18
Avg per match 7.5 9
1st in 56/98 77/125
%1st in 57% 62%
1st pts 50/56 55/77
%1st pts 89% 71%
2nd pts 20/42 25/48
%2nd pts 48% 52%

Popyrin recorded 15 aces (7.5 per match). Korda fired 18 aces (9 per match). Popyrin won 89% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Korda won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Popyrin Korda
Won 7 9
Converted 7/10 9/26
% Converted 70% 35%
Conceded 3 13
Saved 1 9
% Saved 33% 69%
Times Broken 2 4

Popyrin broke his opponents 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Alexei lost his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Korda broke his opponents 9 times with a 35% conversion rate. Sebastian conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded.

Popyrin
R1
Schnur		 R2
Kolar		 Total
Score 6-1 6-4 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 17 20 37
pts 54-35 63-52 117-87
Total points 89 115 204
Winners 23 27 50
%Winners 43% 43% 43%
SERVE
Aces 10 5 15
Double Faults 2 4 6
1st in 27/45 29/53 56/98
% 1st in 60% 55% 57%
1st pts 23/27 27/29 50/56
% 1st pts 85% 93% 89%
2nd pts 13/18 7/24 20/42
% 2nd pts 72% 29% 48%
Breaks
Won 3 4 7
Converted 3/5 4/5 7/10
Converted % 60% 80% 70%
Conceded 0 3 3
Saved 0/0 1/3 1
Saved % – 33% 17%
Times Broken 0 2 2
Korda
R1
Machac		 R2
Haerteis		 Total
Score 7-60 6-1 6-2 1-6 6-1
Tot Set 2 3 5
Tot Games 20 22 42
pts 73-53 79-67 152-120
Total points 126 146 272
Winners 26 29 55
%Winners 36% 37% 36%
SERVE
Aces 7 11 18
Double Faults 7 0 7
1st in 34/57 43/68 77/125
% 1st in 60% 63% 62%
1st pts 26/34 29/43 55/77
% 1st pts 76% 67% 71%
2nd pts 10/23 15/25 25/48
% 2nd pts 43% 60% 52%
Breaks
Won 5 4 9
Converted 5/9 4/17 9/26
Converted % 56% 24% 35%
Conceded 7 6 13
Saved 5/7 4/6 9
Saved % 71% 67% 69%
Times Broken 2 2 4

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