Dmitry Popko and Filip Cristian Jianu will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Almaty 1 Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Filip Cristian Jianu who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Filip Cristian Jianu is the pick to win this match.
Filip Cristian Jianu -> 1.63
Dmitry Popko -> 2.28
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Filip Cristian Jianu
This will be the 3rd time that Dmitry Popko and Filip Cristian Jianu face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Popko and Cristian (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Cristian won 6-7(5) 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the Tallahassee Challenger back in April 2021.
Dmitry Popko
Ranked no. 195, Popko reached the 2nd round after defeating Vladyslav Orlov 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Dmitry had a good straight sets win against Orlov (6-2 6-3). During the match, Popko scored 65 points vs Orlov’s 46. Popko was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popko fired 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Dmitry Popko lost the serve 3 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Popko put 51% of his first serves in, winning 66% (19/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (14/28) on the 2nd serve. Dmitry broke Orlov 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Popko has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (339-188). 4-8 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Popko has an aggregate198-95 record in the last 9 years on clay.
Popko has an overall 8-15 win-loss record in 2021, 4-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Almaty 1 Challenger
The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.
Filip Cristian Jianu
Ranked no. 338 (career-high), the Romanian got to the 2nd round after defeating Tsung-Hua Yang 6-2 6-3, Ivan Gakhov 4-6 7-5 7-64 and Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Romanian had a good straight sets win against Gabashvili (6-1 6-3). During the match Cristian scored 52 points vs Gabashvili’s 31. The Romanian was extremely aggressive to blast 16 winners.
Talking about serving, Cristian scored 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Filip Cristian Jianu was quite effective on serve to win 76% (16/21) of his 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Romanian broke Gabashvili 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Cristian’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Cairo and M15 Antalya.
The Romanian has a composed 28-13 win-loss record in 2021, 26-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 68 |
| Pts | 65-46 | 225-187 |
| Total Points | 111 | 412 |
| Winners | 19 | 95 |
| %Winners | 29% | 42% |
Popko played 1 match while Cristian competed in 3 matches. Cristian started his run from the qualifications while Popko had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Filip Cristian Jianu surrendered 1 set while Dmitry Popko hasn’t dropped a set so far. Popko has played 5 set(s) less than Cristian (2 vs 7). Therefore, Popko played 51 games less than Cristian. Popko scored 19 winners (29% of the total points). On the other side, Filip scored 95 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 3 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 4.3 |
| 1st in | 29/57 | 132/209 |
| %1st in | 51% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 19/29 | 95/132 |
| %1st pts | 66% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 37/77 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 48% |
Popko scored 3 aces . Cristian fired 13 aces (4.3 per match). Popko won 66% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Cristian won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 48% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popko | Cristian |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 13 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 13/23 |
| % Converted | 55% | 57% |
| Conceded | 9 | 14 |
| Saved | 6 | 8 |
| % Saved | 67% | 57% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 6 |
Dmitry broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Dmitry surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded. Filip broke his opponents 13 times with a 57% conversion rate. Filip conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popko | |||
| R1 Orlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 65-46 | 65-46 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 29% | 29% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 29/57 | 29/57 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 19/29 | 19/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/28 | 14/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 6/9 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Cristian | |||||
| Q1 Yang |
Q3 Gakhov |
R1 Gabashvili |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 4-6 7-5 7-64 | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 35 | 16 | 68 | |
| pts | 63-43 | 110-113 | 52-31 | 225-187 | |
| Total points | 106 | 223 | 83 | 412 | |
| Winners | 21 | 58 | 16 | 95 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 53% | 31% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 22/47 | 89/121 | 21/41 | 132/209 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 74% | 51% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 21/22 | 58/89 | 16/21 | 95/132 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 65% | 76% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/25 | 10/32 | 12/20 | 37/77 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 31% | 60% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 5/8 | 5/7 | 13/23 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 63% | 71% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 8/13 | 0/1 | 8 | |
| Saved % | – | 62% | 0% | 62% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
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