Thanasi Kokkinakis and Bogdan Bobrov will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the St. Tropez Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 11:00 am on CENTRAL TAG HEUER. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.071
Bogdan Bobrov -> 8.4
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Bogdan Bobrov
There is no head to head record between Thanasi Kokkinakis and Bogdan Bobrov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
Ranked no. 185, the Australian reached the 2nd round after defeating Jc Aragone 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Thanasi had a good straight sets win against Aragone (6-3 7-5). During the match, Kokkinakis scored 77 points vs Aragone’s 63. Thanasi was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kokkinakis recorded 8 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Thanasi Kokkinakis lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kokkinakis put 60% of his first serves in, winning 86% (31/36) of the points behind his 1st serve and 29% (7/24) on the 2nd serve. Kokkinakis broke Aragone 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).
Kokkinakis has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 63% of his matches (166-99). 11-8 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Kokkinakis has a composed112-59 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the year was conquering the title in the Biella 6 Challenger where he beat Enzo Couacaud in the final 6-3 6-4.
Thanasi has an aggregate 23-16 win-loss record in 2021, 11-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the St. Tropez Challenger
The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.
Bogdan Bobrov
Ranked no. 452, Bobrov got to the 2nd round after defeating Daniil Glinka 7-63 6-3 and Zizou Bergs 6-4 7-5.
In the 1st round, Bogdan had a good straight sets win against Bergs (6-4 7-5). During the match Bobrov scored 76 points vs Bergs’s 63. Bobrov was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Bobrov recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Bogdan Bobrov was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (29/39) of his 1st serve and 61% (17/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Bobrov broke Bergs 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Bobrov has an overall 20-23 win-loss record in 2021, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Kokkinakis | Bobrov |
---|---|---|
Match played | 1 | 2 |
Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
Tot Games | 21 | 44 |
Pts | 77-63 | 158-132 |
Total Points | 140 | 290 |
Winners | 31 | 55 |
%Winners | 40% | 35% |
Kokkinakis played 1 match while Bobrov competed in 2 matches. Bobrov started his run from the qualifications while Kokkinakis had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Kokkinakis has played 2 set(s) less than Bobrov (2 vs 4). Therefore, Kokkinakis played 23 games less than Bobrov. Kokkinakis scored 31 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Bobrov made 55 winners (35%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Kokkinakis | Bobrov |
---|---|---|
Aces | 8 | 3 |
Avg per match | 8 | 1.5 |
1st in | 36/60 | 79/147 |
%1st in | 60% | 54% |
1st pts | 31/36 | 55/79 |
%1st pts | 86% | 70% |
2nd pts | 7/24 | 36/68 |
%2nd pts | 29% | 53% |
Kokkinakis recorded 8 aces . Bobrov recorded 3 aces (1.5 per match). Kokkinakis won 86% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 29% of the points. On the other side, Bobrov won 70% of the points behind 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 | Kokkinakis | Bobrov |
---|---|---|
Won | 5 | 9 |
Converted | 5/8 | 9/18 |
% Converted | 63% | 50% |
Conceded | 3 | 16 |
Saved | 1 | 10 |
% Saved | 33% | 63% |
Times Broken | 2 | 6 |
Thanasi broke his opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Thanasi surrendered his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Bobrov broke his opponents 9 times with a 50% conversion rate. Bobrov conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
Kokkinakis | |||
R1 Aragone |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
pts | 77-63 | 77-63 | |
Total points | 140 | 140 | |
Winners | 31 | 31 | |
%Winners | 40% | 40% | |
SERVE | |||
Aces | 8 | 8 | |
Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
1st in | 36/60 | 36/60 | |
% 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
1st pts | 31/36 | 31/36 | |
% 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
2nd pts | 7/24 | 7/24 | |
% 2nd pts | 29% | 29% | |
Breaks | |||
Won | 5 | 5 | |
Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Bobrov | ||||
Q3 Glinka |
R1 Bergs |
Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Score | 7-63 6-3 | 6-4 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Tot Games | 22 | 22 | 44 | |
pts | 82-69 | 76-63 | 158-132 | |
Total points | 151 | 139 | 290 | |
Winners | 26 | 29 | 55 | |
%Winners | 32% | 38% | 35% | |
SERVE | ||||
Aces | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
1st in | 40/80 | 39/67 | 79/147 | |
% 1st in | 50% | 58% | 54% | |
1st pts | 26/40 | 29/39 | 55/79 | |
% 1st pts | 65% | 74% | 70% | |
2nd pts | 19/40 | 17/28 | 36/68 | |
% 2nd pts | 48% | 61% | 53% | |
Breaks | ||||
Won | 6 | 3 | 9 | |
Converted | 6/11 | 3/7 | 9/18 | |
Converted % | 55% | 43% | 50% | |
Conceded | 11 | 5 | 16 | |
Saved | 6/11 | 4/5 | 10 | |
Saved % | 55% | 80% | 135% | |
Times Broken | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Head 2 Head
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