Denis Istomin and Mirza Basic will play each other in the 1st round of the Split 2 Challenger for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on COURT 4. Here you can find the head to head analysis and the prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Mirza Basic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Mirza Basic is the pick to win this match.
Mirza Basic -> 1.38
Denis Istomin -> 2.94
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Prediction and head to head Denis Istomin vs. Mirza Basic
This will be the 2nd time that Denis Istomin and Mirza Basic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Basic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Basic won 4-2 ret. in the 1st round in Gstaad back in 2016.
Denis Istomin
Ranked no. 198, Istomin will start his run in the Split 2 Challenger after he played his last match in the Sultan 2 Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Daniel in the 2nd round on the 3rd of March.
Istomin has a 5-8 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Denis has an overall 553-453 record. He has a flat 139-139 record on clay.
Previously in the Split 2 Challenger
Denis has never competed in this tournament before.
Mirza Basic
Ranked no. 287, Mirza reached the 1st round after beating Tung-Lin Wu 6-3 6-2 and Andrea Collarini 1-6 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications against Collarini, Basic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-3 6-3).-82) than Collarini. In fact, the world no. 198 won 82 points vs Collarini’s. That means that Basic was more focused during the important points. The Bosnian was quite aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Basic scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Mirza Basic lost the serve 5 times and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Basic put 67% of his first serves in, winning 60% (35/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (11/29) on the 2nd serve. Basic broke Collarini 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Mirza started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Basic has a 17-6 win-loss record in 2021, 6-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
LWWWWWLWLW Tennis Scores in Split 2 Challenger
- Joao DominguesDomingues – Alex BoltBolt (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (6-4 5-7 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Mohamed SafwatSafwat (3-6 6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cem IlkelIlkel – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-2 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Filip HoranskyHoransky – Dustin BrownBrown (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Elias YmerYmer – Alexandre MullerMuller (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mirza BasicBasic – Denis IstominIstomin (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Steven DiezDiez – Maximilian MartererMarterer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Pedro CachinCachin (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Joao DominguesDomingues (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Duje KekezKekez – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Filip HoranskyHoransky (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel MasurMasur – Quentin HalysHalys (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Elias YmerYmer (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Marc PolmansPolmans (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – Hugo GastonGaston (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kacper ZukZuk – Lukas RosolRosol (0-1) – H2H and prediction
