Sasi Kumar Mukund and Genaro Alberto Olivieri will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Lexington Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 5:00 pm on STADIUM 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Genaro Alberto Olivieri who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Genaro Alberto Olivieri is the pick to win this match.
Genaro Alberto Olivieri -> 1.727
Sasi Kumar Mukund -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Sasi Kumar Mukund vs. Genaro Alberto Olivieri
This will be the 2nd time that Sasi Kumar Mukund and Genaro Alberto Olivieri square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Alberto Olivieri (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Alberto Olivieri won 4-6 6-2 7-5 in the 1st round in the Cary Challenger back in July 2021.
Sasi Kumar Mukund
Ranked no. 327, the Indian reached the 2nd round after defeating Brayden Schnur 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Sasi had a good straight sets win against Schnur (6-3 6-4). During the match, Kumar Mukund scored 60 points vs Schnur’s 53. Kumar Mukund was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kumar Mukund blasted 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Sasi Kumar Mukund was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 63% (19/30) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Indian broke Schnur twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
Kumar Mukund has a winning record in the last 8 years having won 54% of his matches (244-204). 15-13 on hard in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kumar Mukund has a composed184-132 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Kumar Mukund’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm El Sheikh.
Kumar Mukund has a compiled 17-17 win-loss record in 2021, 15-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Lexington Challenger
The Indian has never competed in this tournament before.
Genaro Alberto Olivieri
Ranked no. 396, Genaro reached the 2nd round after beating Alex Rybakov 3-6 7-63 0-0 ret., Alexis Galarneau 6-2 6-76 4-0 ret. and Mitchell Krueger 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, Alberto Olivieri had a good straight sets win against Krueger (6-4 6-4). During the match Alberto Olivieri scored 68 points vs Krueger’s 61. Alberto Olivieri was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Alberto Olivieri managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Genaro Alberto Olivieri was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (28/38) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Genaro broke Krueger twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
The Argentine’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Tulsa.
Alberto Olivieri has a compiled 14-9 win-loss record in 2021, 12-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kumar Mukund | Alberto Olivieri |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 10 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 67 |
| Pts | 60-53 | 221-203 |
| Total Points | 113 | 424 |
| Winners | 26 | 84 |
| %Winners | 43% | 38% |
Kumar Mukund played 1 match while Alberto Olivieri competed in 3 matches. Alberto Olivieri started his run from the qualifications while Kumar Mukund had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Genaro Alberto Olivieri surrendered 2 sets while Sasi Kumar Mukund hasn’t dropped a set so far. Kumar Mukund has played 8 set(s) less than Alberto Olivieri (2 vs 10). Therefore, Kumar Mukund played 48 games less than Alberto Olivieri. Kumar Mukund scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Genaro scored 84 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kumar Mukund | Alberto Olivieri |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 12 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 4 |
| 1st in | 35/65 | 121/208 |
| %1st in | 54% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 84/121 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 19/30 | 43/87 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 49% |
Kumar Mukund managed to score 9 aces . Alberto Olivieri managed to score 12 aces (4 per match). Kumar Mukund won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Alberto Olivieri won 69% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 49% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kumar Mukund | Alberto Olivieri |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 11 |
| Converted | 2/3 | 11/22 |
| % Converted | 67% | 50% |
| Conceded | 2 | 11 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 45% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 6 |
Sasi broke his opponent twice with a 67% conversion rate. The Indian extremely effective on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points. Genaro broke his opponents 11 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Argentine conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 45% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kumar Mukund | |||
| R1 Schnur |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 60-53 | 60-53 | |
| Total points | 113 | 113 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 35/65 | 35/65 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 26/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/30 | 19/30 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/3 | 2/3 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Alberto Olivieri | |||||
| Q1 Rybakov |
Q3 Galarneau |
R1 Krueger |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 3-6 7-63 0-0 ret. | 6-2 6-76 4-0 ret. | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 25 | 20 | 67 | |
| pts | 58-65 | 95-77 | 68-61 | 221-203 | |
| Total points | 123 | 172 | 129 | 424 | |
| Winners | 27 | 29 | 28 | 84 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 31% | 41% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 39/61 | 44/82 | 38/65 | 121/208 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 54% | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 27/39 | 29/44 | 28/38 | 84/121 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 66% | 74% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 18/38 | 16/27 | 43/87 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 47% | 59% | 49% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 7 | 2 | 11 | |
| Converted | 2/2 | 7/15 | 2/5 | 11/22 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 47% | 40% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 | 1 | 11 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 4/7 | 1/1 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 57% | 100% | 157% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-1 4-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Ulises BlanchBlanch (6-76 6-5 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Roberto Cid SuberviCid Subervi (6-4 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Aidan MchughMchugh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Darian KingKing (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Thanasi KokkinakisKokkinakis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
