Alexei Popyrin and Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune will face off in the 1st round of the Moselle Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexei Popyrin who should win in 3 sets.
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.8
Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune -> 2.06
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Prediction and head to head Alexei Popyrin vs. Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune
There is no head to head record between Alexei Popyrin and Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Alexei Popyrin
Ranked no. 72, the Australian will start his run in Metz after he played his last match at the Us Open where he lost 4-6 3-6 6-3 6-4 7-6(1) to Evans in the 3rd round on the 3rd of September.
Popyrin has a compiled 26-20 win-loss record in 2021, 5-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in in Singapore where he defeated Alexander Bublik in the final 4-6 6-0 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Popyrin has an overall 177-125 record. He has a positive 26-19 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Metz
Alexei has never competed in this tournament before.
Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune
Ranked no. 133 (career-high), the Dane got to the 1st round after defeating Thomas Fabbiano 3-6 6-3 6-4 and Philipp Kohlschreiber 5-7 6-3 7-5.
In the qualifications against Kohlschreiber, Holger recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-3 7-5). During the match Vitus Nodskov Rune scored 91 points vs Kohlschreiber’s 81. Vitus Nodskov Rune was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about serving, Vitus Nodskov Rune managed to score 3 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune lost the serve 3 times and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Vitus Nodskov Rune put 57% of his first serves in, winning 67% (33/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 76% (28/37) on the 2nd serve. The Dane was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Kohlschreiber 4 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Dane started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
His best result of the current year was conquering the title in the Biella 7 Challenger where he defeated Marco Trungelliti in the final 6-3 5-7 7-6(5) and in the San Marino Challenger where he overcame Orlando Luz in the final 1-6 6-2 6-3 and in the Verona Challenger where he defeated Nino Serdarusic in the final 6-4 6-2.
Holger has an overall 59-20 win-loss record in 2021, 7-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Metz
- Nikoloz BasilashviliBasilashvili – Gianluca MagerMager (6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Richard GasquetGasquet – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Andy MurrayMurray – Ugo HumbertHumbert (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas PouillePouille – Brayden SchnurSchnur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Arthur RinderknechRinderknech – Marcos GironGiron (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mikael YmerYmer – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina – Gilles SimonSimon (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Holger Vitus Nodskov RuneVitus Nodskov Rune – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – H2H and prediction