Francesco Forti and Ivan Gakhov will play each other in the 1st round of the Kyiv Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 11. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesco Forti who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francesco Forti is the pick to win this match.
Francesco Forti -> 1.33
Ivan Gakhov -> 3.25
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Prediction and head to head Francesco Forti vs. Ivan Gakhov
There is no head to head record between Francesco Forti and Ivan Gakhov since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Francesco Forti
Ranked no. 342, the Italian will start his run in the Kyiv Challenger after he played his last match in the Como Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-2 6-1 to Martin in the 1st round on the 30th of August.
Forti has a composed 40-21 win-loss record in 2021, 34-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Forti’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Kiseljak and M25 Klosters.
Talking about his overall career, Francesco has an overall 125-89 record. He has a positive 81-60 record on clay.
Previously in the Kyiv Challenger
Francesco has never competed in this tournament before.
Ivan Gakhov
Ranked no. 508, the Russian got to the 1st round after beating Vladyslav Manafov 6-2 6-4 and Danylo Kalenichenko 6-4 6-2.
In the qualifications, Gakhov had a good straight sets win against Kalenichenko (6-4 6-2). During the match Gakhov scored 59 points vs Kalenichenko’s 40. Gakhov was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about serving, Gakhov recorded 2 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Ivan Gakhov was extremely efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of his 1st serve and 79% (19/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Ivan broke Kalenichenko 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ivan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 59% of the points he played.
Ivan’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Shymkent.
The Russian has a composed 28-19 win-loss record in 2021, 23-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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