Matija Pecotic and Andrey Kuznetsov will play each other in the 1st round of the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrey Kuznetsov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrey Kuznetsov is the pick to win this match.
Andrey Kuznetsov -> 1.31
Matija Pecotic -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Matija Pecotic vs. Andrey Kuznetsov
There is no head to head record between Matija Pecotic and Andrey Kuznetsov since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Matija Pecotic
Ranked no. 343, the Croatian will start his run in the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Naples where he lost 6-1 7-5 to Gonzalez in the 2nd round on the 25th of February.
Matija has a 1-1 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, Pecotic has an overall 170-61 record. He has a positive 5-4 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the St. Petersburg 1 Challenger
Matija has never competed in this tournament before.
Andrey Kuznetsov
Ranked no. 508, the Russian reached the 1st round after beating Jonas Forejtek 6-1 6-75 7-5 and Jiri Lehecka 6-3 6-1.
In the qualifications, Kuznetsov had a good straight sets win against Lehecka (6-3 6-1). During the match Kuznetsov scored 57 points vs Lehecka’s 38. The Russian was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuznetsov made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Andrey Kuznetsov was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 88% (22/25) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kuznetsov broke Lehecka 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kuznetsov has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points he played.
Kuznetsov’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 St. Petersburg.
Andrey has a 6-2 win-loss record in 2021, 6-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LL Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg 1 Challenger
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