Dmitry Popko and Aidan Mchugh will face off in the 1st round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
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 -> 1.61
Aidan Mchugh -> 2.20
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Aidan Mchugh
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Aidan Mchugh since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Dmitry Popko
Ranked no. 170, Dmitry will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in the Charlottesville Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Vukic in the 1st round on the 2nd of November.
The Kazakhstani has an aggregate 34-33 win-loss record in 2021, 7-9 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title in the Lisbon Challenger where he defeated Andrea Pellegrino in the final 6-2 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Popko has an overall 365-206 record. He has a negative 24-27 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Aidan Mchugh
Ranked no. 358 (career-high), Aidan got to the 1st round after beating Arjun Kadhe 6-3 7-60 and Rinky Hijikata 7-5 6-72 6-3.
In the qualifications, Aidan defeated Hijikata (7-5 6-72 6-3). During the match Mchugh scored 114 points vs Hijikata’s 96. Mchugh was quite aggressive to blast 53 winners.
Talking about serving, Mchugh bagged 9 aces and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Aidan Mchugh was very effective on serve to win 73% (53/73) of his 1st serve and 67% (16/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Mchugh broke Hijikata 4 times after converting 29% of his break points (4/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Brit started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Aidan’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Indore,M25 Santo Domingo,M25 Decatur and M25+H Rodez.
Mchugh has an overall 50-26 win-loss record in 2021, 8-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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