Dmitry Popko and Matthew Ebden will square off in the qualifications of the Astana Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 12:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Matthew Ebden who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Matthew Ebden is the pick to win this match.
Matthew Ebden -> 1.8
Dmitry Popko -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Matthew Ebden
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Matthew Ebden since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Dmitry Popko
Ranked no. 195, the Kazakhstani got to the qualifications after defeating Simon Anthony Ivanov 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, Dmitry had a good straight sets win against Anthony Ivanov (6-2 6-3). During the match, Popko scored 56 points vs Anthony Ivanov’s 35. The Kazakhstani was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popko bagged 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Dmitry Popko was pretty efficient on serve to win 90% (18/20) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Anthony Ivanov 5 times.
Popko has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 64% of his matches (357-200). 5-5 on indoor hard courts in 2021. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Popko has an overall22-23 win-loss record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Prague 2 Challenger.
Popko has an aggregate 26-27 win-loss record in 2021, 5-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nur-Sultan
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2020. See his history.
Matthew Ebden
Ranked no. 246, matthew reached the qualifications after beating Jurij Rodionov 7-5 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Rodionov (7-5 6-4). During the match Ebden scored 72 points vs Rodionov’s 60. The Australian was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Ebden scored 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Matthew Ebden lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Ebden put 57% of his first serves in, winning 67% (29/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the 2nd serve. Ebden broke Rodionov 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
The Australian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Marseille.
The Australian has an aggregate 18-17 win-loss record in 2021, 9-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Nur-Sultan
Matthew has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Ebden |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 22 |
| Pts | 56-35 | 72-60 |
| Total Points | 91 | 132 |
| Winners | 18 | 29 |
| %Winners | 32% | 40% |
Both Popko and Ebden played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Popko and Ebden have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Popko played 5 games less than Ebden. Dmitry scored 18 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Australian fired 29 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Ebden |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 6 |
| 1st in | 20/45 | 43/75 |
| %1st in | 44% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 29/43 |
| %1st pts | 90% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 19/32 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 59% |
Popko fired 7 aces . Ebden recorded 6 aces . Popko won 90% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Ebden won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popko | Ebden |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/5 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 100% | 57% |
| Conceded | 2 | 7 |
| Saved | 1 | 5 |
| % Saved | 50% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 5 times with a 100% conversion rate. Dmitry dropped his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Matthew broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Matthew conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popko | |||
| Q1 Anthony |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 56-35 | 56-35 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 18 | 18 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 20/45 | 20/45 | |
| % 1st in | 44% | 44% | |
| 1st pts | 18/20 | 18/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/25 | 13/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/5 | 5/5 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Ebden | |||
| Q1 Rodionov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-60 | 72-60 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 43/75 | 43/75 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 29/43 | 29/43 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/32 | 19/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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