Dimitar Kuzmanov and Nerman Fatic will face off in the 2nd round of the Perugia Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dimitar Kuzmanov who should win in 3 sets.
Dimitar Kuzmanov -> 1.72
Nerman Fatic -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Dimitar Kuzmanov vs. Nerman Fatic
This will be the 4th time that Dimitar Kuzmanov and Nerman Fatic square off. The head to head is 3-0 for Kuzmanov (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Kuzmanov won 6-2 2-0 ret. in the semifinal in the Zadar Challenger back in March 2021.
Dimitar Kuzmanov
Ranked no. 246, Dimitar reached the 2nd round after defeating Federico Gaio 2-6 6-3 7-62.
In the 1st round against Gaio, Kuzmanov recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-3 7-62).-99) than Gaio. In fact, the world no. 246 won 99 points vs Gaio’s. That means that Kuzmanov was more focused during the important points. Kuzmanov was pretty aggressive to blast 48 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kuzmanov couldn’t to score even 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Dimitar Kuzmanov lost the serve 4 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Kuzmanov put 74% of his first serves in, winning 62% (48/78) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the 2nd serve. Dimitar broke Gaio 3 times after converting 30% of his break points (3/10).
Kuzmanov has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 67% of his matches (405-200). 13-10 on clay in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kuzmanov has a compiled 216-113 win-loss record in the last years on clay.
Kuzmanov’s best result of the year was getting to the final in the Zadar Challenger.
Kuzmanov has a compiled 21-16 win-loss record in 2021, 13-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Perugia Challenger
The Bulgarian has never competed in this tournament before.
Nerman Fatic
Ranked no. 340, the Bosnian reached the 2nd round after defeating Mark Vervoort 6-1 6-1, Alexander Ritschard 6-3 7-65 and Pedro Cachin 6-4 7-65.
In the 1st round, Fatic had a good straight sets win against Cachin (6-4 7-65). During the match Fatic scored 80 points vs Cachin’s 78. The Bosnian was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Fatic was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Nerman Fatic lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Fatic put 75% of his first serves in, winning 64% (39/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Fatic broke Cachin 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Fatic’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Prijedor.
Nerman has a composed 17-9 win-loss record in 2021, 17-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kuzmanov | Fatic |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 3 |
Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
Tot Games | 30 | 59 |
Pts | 99-100 | 208-171 |
Total Points | 199 | 379 |
Winners | 48 | 88 |
%Winners | 48% | 42% |
Kuzmanov played 1 match while Fatic competed in 3 matches. Fatic started his run from the qualifications while Kuzmanov had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Dimitar Kuzmanov lost 1 set while Nerman Fatic hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kuzmanov has played 3 set(s) less than Fatic (3 vs 6). Therefore, Kuzmanov played 29 games less than Fatic. Kuzmanov scored 48 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Fatic scored 88 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kuzmanov | Fatic |
---|---|---|
Aces | 0 | 10 |
Avg per match | 0 | 3.3 |
1st in | 78/106 | 120/180 |
%1st in | 74% | 67% |
1st pts | 48/78 | 88/120 |
%1st pts | 62% | 73% |
2nd pts | 17/28 | 32/60 |
%2nd pts | 61% | 53% |
Kuzmanov didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Fatic blasted 10 aces (3.3 per match). Kuzmanov won 62% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Fatic won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Kuzmanov | Fatic |
---|---|---|
Won | 3 | 11 |
Converted | 3/10 | 11/19 |
% Converted | 30% | 58% |
Conceded | 13 | 11 |
Saved | 9 | 8 |
% Saved | 69% | 73% |
Times Broken | 4 | 3 |
Dimitar broke his opponent 3 times with a 30% conversion rate. Kuzmanov conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded. Nerman broke his opponents 11 times with a 58% conversion rate. Fatic conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 73% of the break points that he conceded.
Kuzmanov | |||
R1 Gaio | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 2-6 6-3 7-62 | ||
Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
Tot Games | 30 | 30 | |
pts | 99-100 | 99-100 | |
Total points | 199 | 199 | |
Winners | 48 | 48 | |
%Winners | 48% | 48% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 0 | 0 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
1st in | 78/106 | 78/106 | |
% 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
1st pts | 48/78 | 48/78 | |
% 1st pts | 62% | 62% | |
2nd pts | 17/28 | 17/28 | |
% 2nd pts | 61% | 61% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 3 | 3 | |
Converted | 3/10 | 3/10 | |
Converted % | 30% | 30% | |
Conceded | 13 | 13 | |
Saved | 9/13 | 9 | |
Saved % | 69% | 69% | |
Times Broken | 4 | 4 |
Fatic | |||||
Q1 Vervoort | Q3 Ritschard | R1 Cachin | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-1 6-1 | 6-3 7-65 | 6-4 7-65 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 14 | 22 | 23 | 59 | |
pts | 59-33 | 69-60 | 80-78 | 208-171 | |
Total points | 92 | 129 | 158 | 379 | |
Winners | 13 | 36 | 39 | 88 | |
%Winners | 22% | 52% | 49% | 42% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 6 | 4 | 0 | 10 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | |
1st in | 14/36 | 45/63 | 61/81 | 120/180 | |
% 1st in | 39% | 71% | 75% | 67% | |
1st pts | 13/14 | 36/45 | 39/61 | 88/120 | |
% 1st pts | 93% | 80% | 64% | 73% | |
2nd pts | 15/22 | 8/18 | 9/20 | 32/60 | |
% 2nd pts | 68% | 44% | 45% | 53% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | |
Converted | 5/9 | 3/3 | 3/7 | 11/19 | |
Converted % | 56% | 100% | 43% | 58% | |
Conceded | 0 | 1 | 10 | 11 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 0/1 | 8/10 | 8 | |
Saved % | – | 0% | 80% | 80% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Tennis Scores in Perugia Challenger
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Dmitry PopkoPopko (2-6 7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (6-75 7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Evan FurnessFurness (2-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Vitaliy SachkoSachko – Andrej MartinMartin (6-3 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Timofey SkatovSkatov – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (1-6 7-65 6-0) – See score progression
- Nerman FaticFatic – Pedro CachinCachin (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Lukas KleinKlein – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-1 7-64) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Francesco PassaroPassaro (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (6-1 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Luca VanniVanni (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Nuno BorgesBorges (3-6 3-5 ret.) – See score progression
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Federico GaioGaio (2-6 6-3 7-62) – See score progression
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (7-63 6-2) – See score progression
- Francesco FortiForti – Andrea CollariniCollarini (4-6 7-5 6-1) – See score progression
- Dominic Stephan StrickerStephan Stricker – Yannick MadenMaden (7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Zhizhen ZhangZhang – Francesco PassaroPassaro (3-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Francesco FortiForti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Nerman FaticFatic (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filippo BaldiBaldi – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H and prediction