Dmitry Popko and Franco Agamenone will fight against each other in the quarter of the Bendigo Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.72
Franco Agamenone -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Franco Agamenone
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Franco Agamenone since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Dmitry Popko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 64-33 | 7-2 | 57-28 | 0-3 | 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, the Kazakhstani reached the quarter after beating Mirza Basic 6-2 6-3 and Flavio Cobolli 6-3 7-5.
In the 3rd round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Cobolli (6-3 7-5). During the match, Popko scored 66 points vs Cobolli’s 49. Popko was very aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Popko made 3 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults. Overall, Dmitry Popko was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 84% (21/25) of his 1st serve and 72% (21/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Popko broke Cobolli 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dmitry started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 58% of the points he played.
Popko has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (367-207). 2-0 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Popko has an aggregate 122-71 match record in the last years on hard.
Dmitry has an aggregate 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Bendigo Challenger
Popko has never competed in this tournament before.
Franco Agamenone
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-31 | 1-4 | 26-23 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-29 | 0-3 | 24-24 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-32 | 6-3 | 26-24 | 3-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 81-23 | 21-5 | 60-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-8 | 0-0 | 22-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 201, Agamenone got to the quarter after beating Cooper Errey 6-2 7-65, Renzo Olivo 6-4 6-2 and Matthias Bachinger 6-4 6-4.
In the 3rd round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Bachinger (6-4 6-4). During the match Agamenone scored 57 points vs Bachinger’s 43. Agamenone was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Agamenone struck 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Franco Agamenone was extremely effective on serve to win 73% (22/30) of his 1st serve and 82% (14/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Bachinger 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Franco started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 57% of the points he played.
Agamenone has a compiled 3-0 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Agamenone |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 38 | 59 |
| Pts | 129-95 | 212-159 |
| Total Points | 224 | 371 |
| Winners | 46 | 88 |
| %Winners | 36% | 42% |
Popko played 2 matches while Agamenone competed in 3 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Popko has played 2 set(s) less than Agamenone (4 vs 6). Therefore, Popko played 21 games less than Agamenone. Dmitry scored 46 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Agamenone blasted 88 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Agamenone |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 13 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4.3 |
| 1st in | 55/107 | 122/181 |
| %1st in | 51% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 46/55 | 88/122 |
| %1st pts | 84% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 33/52 | 35/59 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 59% |
Popko managed to score 10 aces (5 per match). Agamenone bagged 13 aces (4.3 per match). Popko won 84% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Agamenone won 72% of the points on 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 | Agamenone |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 11 |
| Converted | 7/13 | 11/20 |
| % Converted | 54% | 55% |
| Conceded | 8 | 14 |
| Saved | 7 | 10 |
| % Saved | 88% | 71% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
The Kazakhstani broke his opponents 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Dmitry surrendered his serve once and he saved 88% of the break points that he conceded. Agamenone broke his opponents 11 times with a 55% conversion rate. Agamenone conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popko | ||||
| R2 Basic |
R3 Cobolli |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 21 | 38 | |
| pts | 63-46 | 66-49 | 129-95 | |
| Total points | 109 | 115 | 224 | |
| Winners | 25 | 21 | 46 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 32% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/53 | 25/54 | 55/107 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 46% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 25/30 | 21/25 | 46/55 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 21/29 | 33/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 72% | 63% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/4 | 7/13 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 75% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
| Saved | 6/6 | 1/2 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 50% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Agamenone | |||||
| R1 Errey |
R2 Olivo |
R3 Bachinger |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-65 | 6-4 6-2 | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 | 20 | 59 | |
| pts | 82-64 | 73-52 | 57-43 | 212-159 | |
| Total points | 146 | 125 | 100 | 371 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | 22 | 88 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 45% | 39% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 8 | 2 | 3 | 13 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 50/71 | 42/63 | 30/47 | 122/181 | |
| % 1st in | 70% | 67% | 64% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 33/50 | 33/42 | 22/30 | 88/122 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 79% | 73% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 9/21 | 14/17 | 35/59 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 43% | 82% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/5 | 3/5 | 11/20 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 80% | 60% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 5 | 1 | 14 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 4/5 | 0/1 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 80% | 0% | 78% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWWLWWWL Tennis Scores in Bendigo Challenger
- Vit KoprivaKopriva – Facundo MenaMena (7-611 4-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Jason JungJung (6-2 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Gastao EliasElias (w/o) – See score progression
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Matthias BachingerBachinger (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Quentin HalysHalys – Mathias BourgueBourgue (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Hugo GrenierGrenier – Zizou BergsBergs (6-0 5-7 7-65) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Salvatore CarusoCaruso – Hugo GrenierGrenier (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
