Dmitry Popko and Giulio Zeppieri will square off in the 2nd round of the Verona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on CAMPO 5. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dmitry Popko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dmitry Popko is the pick to win this match.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.64
Giulio Zeppieri -> 2.26
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Giulio Zeppieri
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Giulio Zeppieri since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Dmitry Popko
Ranked no. 176, Popko got to the 2nd round after beating Orlando Luz 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Luz (6-3 6-1). During the match, Popko scored 57 points vs Luz’s 38. The Kazakhstani was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Popko bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Dmitry Popko was extremely efficient on serve to win 80% (24/30) of his 1st serve and 56% (10/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Dmitry broke Luz 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Popko has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (353-197). 18-16 on clay in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Popko has an overall212-103 match record in the last 9 years on clay.
Popko’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Prague 2 Challenger.
Popko has a composed 22-24 win-loss record in 2021, 18-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Dmitry has never competed in this tournament before.
Giulio Zeppieri
Ranked no. 294, the Italian got to the 2nd round after beating Vitaliy Sachko 1-6 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round against Sachko, Zeppieri recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 7-5 6-2).-86) than Sachko. In fact, the world no. 176 won 86 points vs Sachko’s. That means that Zeppieri was more focused during the important points. Zeppieri was extremely aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Zeppieri scored 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Giulio Zeppieri lost the serve 4 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zeppieri put 61% of his first serves in, winning 60% (33/55) of the points behind his 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Sachko 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Giulio has an aggregate 20-16 win-loss record in 2021, 19-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 27 |
| Pts | 57-38 | 86-88 |
| Total Points | 95 | 174 |
| Winners | 24 | 33 |
| %Winners | 42% | 38% |
Both Popko and Zeppieri played 1 match. At the moment, Giulio Zeppieri lost 1 set while Dmitry Popko hasn’t conceded a set so far. Popko has played 1 set(s) less than Zeppieri (2 vs 3). Therefore, Popko played 11 games less than Zeppieri. Dmitry scored 24 winners (42% of the total points). On the other side, Zeppieri struck 33 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 7 |
| 1st in | 30/48 | 55/90 |
| %1st in | 63% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 33/55 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 60% |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 19/35 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 54% |
Popko bagged 4 aces . Zeppieri fired 7 aces . Popko won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Zeppieri won 60% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popko | Zeppieri |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 67% | 57% |
| Conceded | 0 | 9 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | NAN% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Popko broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani was rock solid on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. Zeppieri broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Giulio conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popko | |||
| R1 Luz |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 57-38 | 57-38 | |
| Total points | 95 | 95 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/48 | 30/48 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 24/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/18 | 10/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Zeppieri | |||
| R1 Sachko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1-6 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 86-88 | 86-88 | |
| Total points | 174 | 174 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 55/90 | 55/90 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 33/55 | 33/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 60% | 60% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/35 | 19/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 9 | |
| Saved | 5/9 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 56% | 56% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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