Aslan Karatsev and Taro Daniel will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Sofia Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:00 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 Aslan Karatsev who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Aslan Karatsev is the pick to win this match.
Aslan Karatsev -> 1.51
Taro Daniel -> 2.63

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There is no head to head record between Aslan Karatsev and Taro Daniel since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Aslan Karatsev

Ranked no. 113 (career high), Karatsev got to the 1^st round after beating Alexander Donski 6-2 6-3 and Marc-Andrea Huesler 7-6² 6-4.

In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Huesler (7-6² 6-4). During the match Karatsev scored 70 points vs Huesler’s 60. Aslan was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about the service games, Karatsev bagged 4 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Aslan Karatsev was extremely efficent on serve to win 83% (30/36) of his 1st serve and 63% (17/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Russian broke Huesler 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

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

Karatsev has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 60% of his matches (314-207). 8-3 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Karatsev has a 74-58 record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

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

Aslan has a 32-9 win-loss record in 2020, 8-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Sofia

Aslan didn’t play in Sofia in 2019.

Taro Daniel

Ranked no. 114, Taro reached the 1^st round after beating Zdenek Kolar 6-4 6-3 and Martin Klizan 6-3 6-4.

In the qualifications, Taro had a good straight sets win against Klizan (6-3 6-4). During the match Daniel scored 65 points vs Klizan’s 50. Taro was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about serving, Daniel scored 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Taro Daniel was quite effective on serve to win 86% (24/28) of his 1st serve and 77% (17/22) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Daniel broke Klizan twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Daniel hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

Taro’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Burnie Challenger and the Hamburg Challenger.

Taro has a 18-14 win-loss record in 2020, 6-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Karatsev and Daniel played 2 matches. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Karatsev and Daniel have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Karatsev played 2 games more than Daniel. Karatsev scored 56 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 50 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Karatsev made 10 aces (5 per match). Daniel struck 12 aces (6 per match). Karatsev won 81% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Daniel won 79% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 78% of the points.

How they played the important points

Karatsev broke his opponents 7 times with a 47% conversion rate. Aslan dropped his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Daniel broke his opponents 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Japanese was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.

Head 2 Head

• 0Slam
• 3Main
• 3Chall
• 10Minor

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• 1Main
• 8Chall
• 4Minor

Aslan
Karatsev

1:0

Taro
Daniel

Rank

99

High

14

1I.hard0

Rank

83

High

58

Win Loss

Karatsev

LLLLWLL

Daniel

LLWLLWWLWL

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1 - 6

14 - 19

0-1

Hard

7-8

0-0

I Hard

1-1

1-4

Clay

5-8

0-1

Grass

1-2

Tennis Scores in Sofia

• John MillmanMillman – Adrian AndreevAndreev (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Radu AlbotAlbot – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings

• Gilles SimonSimon – Andrej MartinMartin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marin CilicCilic – Jonas ForejtekForejtek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vasek PospisilPospisil – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Martin KlizanKlizan – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Jannik SinnerSinner (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Viktor TroickiTroicki (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Taro DanielDaniel – Aslan KaratsevKaratsev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena – Richard GasquetGasquet (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Radu AlbotAlbot (0-0) – H2H and prediction

Karatsev

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Daniel