Dmitry Popko and Flavio Cobolli will clash against each other in the 3rd round of the Bendigo Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:00 am on COURT 2. In the following paragraphs, 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 -> 1.66
Flavio Cobolli -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Flavio Cobolli
This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Flavio Cobolli clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Cobolli (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Cobolli won 2-6 7-5 7-6(3) in the 1st round in the Perugia Challenger back in 2021.
Dmitry Popko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 45-11 | 5-0 | 40-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-20 | 1-1 | 38-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-30 | 11-11 | 7-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-34 | 0-4 | 27-19 | 7-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 28-23 | 13-8 | 15-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 180, Dmitry got to the 3rd round after defeating Mirza Basic 6-2 6-3.
In the 2nd round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Basic (6-2 6-3). During the match, Popko scored 63 points vs Basic’s 46. The Kazakhstani was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Popko recorded 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Dmitry Popko was very efficient on serve to win 83% (25/30) of his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Dmitry broke Basic 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).
Popko has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (366-207). 1-0 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Popko has a compiled 121-71 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Kazakhstani has a compiled 1-0 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bendigo Challenger
The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.
Flavio Cobolli
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-13 | 14-7 | 4-5 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 56-36 | 10-6 | 43-23 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 6-4 | 24-21 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 46-30 | 5-4 | 39-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-8 | 2-2 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 205, the Italian reached the 3rd round after defeating Aaron Addison 6-2 7-64 and Stefan Kozlov 6-4 3-6 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Cobolli defeated Kozlov (6-4 3-6 6-1). During the match Cobolli scored 85 points vs Kozlov’s 68. Flavio was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Cobolli recorded 7 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Flavio Cobolli lost the serve 6 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Cobolli put 61% of his first serves in, winning 52% (24/46) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (17/30) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Kozlov 8 times after converting 57% of his break points (8/14).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Flavio 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.
The Italian has a composed 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Cobolli |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 47 |
| Pts | 63-46 | 170-141 |
| Total Points | 109 | 311 |
| Winners | 25 | 50 |
| %Winners | 40% | 29% |
Popko played 1 match while Cobolli competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Flavio Cobolli dropped 1 set while Dmitry Popko hasn’t conceded a set so far. Popko has played 3 set(s) less than Cobolli (2 vs 5). Therefore, Popko played 30 games less than Cobolli. Dmitry scored 25 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Cobolli made 50 winners (29%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Cobolli |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 6.5 |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 81/150 |
| %1st in | 57% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 50/81 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 62% |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 40/69 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 58% |
Popko blasted 7 aces . Cobolli blasted 13 aces (6.5 per match). Popko won 83% points on his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Cobolli won 62% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popko | Cobolli |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 11 |
| Converted | 4/9 | 11/25 |
| % Converted | 44% | 44% |
| Conceded | 6 | 21 |
| Saved | 6 | 14 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 7 |
Popko broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani extremely effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 6 break points. Cobolli broke his opponents 11 times with a 44% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 7 times and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popko | |||
| R2 Basic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 63-46 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 30/53 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 25/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 4/9 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Cobolli | ||||
| R1 Addison |
R2 Kozlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-64 | 6-4 3-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 26 | 47 | |
| pts | 85-73 | 85-68 | 170-141 | |
| Total points | 158 | 153 | 311 | |
| Winners | 26 | 24 | 50 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 28% | 29% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 6 | 7 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 35/74 | 46/76 | 81/150 | |
| % 1st in | 47% | 61% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 26/35 | 24/46 | 50/81 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 52% | 62% | |
| 2nd pts | 23/39 | 17/30 | 40/69 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 57% | 58% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 8 | 11 | |
| Converted | 3/11 | 8/14 | 11/25 | |
| Converted % | 27% | 57% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 9 | 12 | 21 | |
| Saved | 8/9 | 6/12 | 14 | |
| Saved % | 89% | 50% | 139% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWLLLWL Tennis Scores in Bendigo Challenger
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Alexandre MullerMuller (2-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Zizou BergsBergs – Jaroslav PospisilPospisil (6-1 7-64) – See score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Blaz RolaRola (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (7-65 6-0) – See score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Michael MmohMmoh (7-65 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Renzo OlivoOlivo (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Cem IlkelIlkel (7-64 6-3) – See score progression
- Facundo MenaMena – Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov (7-67 6-4) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Mirza BasicBasic (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-4 3-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (7-66 7-61) – See score progression
- Thomas FabbianoFabbiano – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Nicolas KickerKicker (6-71 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Mathias BourgueBourgue – Daniel MasurMasur (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Matthias BachingerBachinger – Franco AgamenoneAgamenone (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo MenaMena – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Gastao EliasElias (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Flavio CobolliCobolli (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Mathias BourgueBourgue (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Jason JungJung (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Hugo GrenierGrenier (0-0) – H2H and prediction
