Aslan Karatsev and Taro Daniel will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Sofia Open for the 1st 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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Prediction and head to head Aslan Karatsev vs. Taro Daniel
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 1st 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 1st 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
Points | Karatsev | Daniel |
---|---|---|
Match played | 2 | 2 |
Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
Tot Games | 40 | 38 |
Pts | 138-112 | 126-99 |
Total Points | 250 | 225 |
Winners | 56 | 50 |
%Winners | 41% | 40% |
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
Serve | Karatsev | Daniel |
---|---|---|
Aces | 10 | 12 |
Avg per match | 5 | 6 |
1st in | 69/112 | 63/108 |
%1st in | 62% | 58% |
1st pts | 56/69 | 50/63 |
%1st pts | 81% | 79% |
2nd pts | 25/43 | 35/45 |
%2nd pts | 58% | 78% |
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
Breaks | Karatsev | Daniel |
---|---|---|
Won | 7 | 4 |
Converted | 7/15 | 4/7 |
% Converted | 47% | 57% |
Conceded | 7 | 6 |
Saved | 5 | 6 |
% Saved | 71% | 100% |
Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
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.
Karatsev | ||||
Q1 Donski |
Q3 Huesler |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-2 6-3 | 7-62 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 17 | 23 | 40 | |
pts | 68-52 | 70-60 | 138-112 | |
Total points | 120 | 130 | 250 | |
Winners | 26 | 30 | 56 | |
%Winners | 38% | 43% | 41% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
Double Faults | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
1st in | 33/49 | 36/63 | 69/112 | |
% 1st in | 67% | 57% | 62% | |
1st pts | 26/33 | 30/36 | 56/69 | |
% 1st pts | 79% | 83% | 81% | |
2nd pts | 8/16 | 17/27 | 25/43 | |
% 2nd pts | 50% | 63% | 58% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
Converted | 4/10 | 3/5 | 7/15 | |
Converted % | 40% | 60% | 47% | |
Conceded | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
Saved | 2/2 | 3/5 | 5 | |
Saved % | 100% | 60% | 80% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Daniel | ||||
Q1 Kolar |
Q3 Klizan |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-4 6-3 | 6-3 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 19 | 38 | |
pts | 61-49 | 65-50 | 126-99 | |
Total points | 110 | 115 | 225 | |
Winners | 26 | 24 | 50 | |
%Winners | 43% | 37% | 40% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 6 | 6 | 12 | |
Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
1st in | 35/58 | 28/50 | 63/108 | |
% 1st in | 60% | 56% | 58% | |
1st pts | 26/35 | 24/28 | 50/63 | |
% 1st pts | 74% | 86% | 79% | |
2nd pts | 18/23 | 17/22 | 35/45 | |
% 2nd pts | 78% | 77% | 78% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Converted | 2/3 | 2/4 | 4/7 | |
Converted % | 67% | 50% | 57% | |
Conceded | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
Saved | 5/5 | 1/1 | 6 | |
Saved % | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Head 2 Head
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