Evgeny Karlovskiy and Yu Hsiou Hsu will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Nur-Sultan 3 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on COURT 5. 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 Yu Hsiou Hsu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yu Hsiou Hsu is the pick to win this match.
Yu Hsiou Hsu -> 1.43
Evgeny Karlovskiy -> 2.83
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Prediction and head to head Evgeny Karlovskiy vs. Yu Hsiou Hsu
This will be the 2nd time that Evgeny Karlovskiy and Yu Hsiou Hsu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Karlovskiy (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Karlovskiy won 7-6(4) 2-6 6-3 in the final in Sultan back in July 2021.
Evgeny Karlovskiy
Ranked no. 294, the Russian reached the 2nd round after beating Lucas Catarina 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Catarina (6-4 6-2). During the match, Karlovskiy scored 61 points vs Catarina’s 42. Evgeny was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about the service games, Karlovskiy scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Evgeny Karlovskiy was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (28/35) of his 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Karlovskiy broke Catarina 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Karlovskiy has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (306-234). 7-1 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Karlovskiy has an overall 150-84 match record in the last years on hard.
Evgeny’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Sultan.
The Russian has an overall 12-13 win-loss record in 2021, 7-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Sultan 3 Challenger
The Russian has never competed in this tournament before.
Yu Hsiou Hsu
Ranked no. 394, Hsiou got to the 2nd round after defeating Hugo Grenier 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, The Chinese had a good straight sets win against Grenier (6-4 6-2). During the match Hsiou scored 57 points vs Grenier’s 40. The Chinese was exceptionally aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Hsiou scored 3 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Yu Hsiou Hsu lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Hsiou put 58% of his first serves in, winning 61% (19/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (14/22) on the 2nd serve. Hsiou broke Grenier 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Yu’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Sharm El Sheikh and Sultan.
Yu has a compiled 40-9 win-loss record in 2021, 37-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Karlovskiy | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 |
| Pts | 61-42 | 57-40 |
| Total Points | 103 | 97 |
| Winners | 28 | 19 |
| %Winners | 46% | 33% |
Both Karlovskiy and Hsiou played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Karlovskiy and Hsiou have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (18). Karlovskiy scored 28 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Hsiou recorded 19 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Karlovskiy | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 3 |
| 1st in | 35/48 | 31/53 |
| %1st in | 73% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 19/31 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 14/22 |
| %2nd pts | 62% | 64% |
Karlovskiy bagged 1 ace . Hsiou also recorded 3 aces . Karlovskiy won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Hsiou won 61% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Karlovskiy | Hsiou |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/6 |
| % Converted | 80% | 83% |
| Conceded | 6 | 5 |
| Saved | 5 | 3 |
| % Saved | 83% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Karlovskiy broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. The Russian conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded. Hsiou broke his opponent 5 times with a 83% conversion rate. The Chinese conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Karlovskiy | |||
| R1 Catarina |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 61-42 | 61-42 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 35/48 | 35/48 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 28/35 | 28/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/13 | 8/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Hsiou | |||
| R1 Grenier |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 57-40 | 57-40 | |
| Total points | 97 | 97 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 31/53 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 19/31 | 19/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/22 | 14/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/6 | 5/6 | |
| Converted % | 83% | 83% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLLLWWWLWW Tennis Scores in Sultan 3 Challenger
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Denis IstominIstomin (6-1 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Hugo GrenierGrenier (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Malek JaziriJaziri (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Mirza BasicBasic – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Akira SantillanSantillan (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Grigoriy LomakinLomakin (6-4 7-64) – See score progression
- Yunseong ChungChung – Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Max PurcellPurcell – Alessandro BegaBega (2-6 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Lucas CatarinaCatarina (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Pavel KotovKotov (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Corentin DenollyDenolly (6-2 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (7-63 6-1) – See score progression
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Nick ChappellChappell (4-6 6-3 7-66) – See score progression
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mirza BasicBasic – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Peter PolanskyPolansky (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Tung-Lin WuWu (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Yunseong ChungChung (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
