Philip Sekulic and Dmitry Popko will square off in the qualifications of the Australian Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 12:00 pm on Court 8. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dmitry Popko who should win in 4 sets.

As per the initial odds, Dmitry Popko is the pick to win this match.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.32
Philip Sekulic -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Philip Sekulic vs. Dmitry Popko

There is no head to head record between Philip Sekulic and Dmitry Popko since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Philip Sekulic

Currently unranked, the Australian reached the qualifications after beating Matthias Bachinger 6-4 6-3.

In the qualifications, Philip had a good straight sets win against Bachinger (6-4 6-3). During the match, Sekulic scored 69 points vs Bachinger’s 53. Philip was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Regarding the service games, Sekulic recorded 9 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Philip Sekulic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 80% (28/35) of his 1st serve and 64% (16/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Sekulic broke Bachinger twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Sekulic has a solid record in the last 4 years having won 61% of his matches (11-7). 1-1 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Sekulic has an aggregate11-7 record in the last 4 years on hard.

The Australian has a compiled 1-1 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

The Australian has never competed in this tournament before.

Dmitry Popko

Ranked no. 177, Dmitry reached the qualifications after beating Bernabe Zapata Miralles 6-1 7-5.

In the qualifications, Popko had a good straight sets win against Zapata Miralles (6-1 7-5). During the match Popko scored 69 points vs Zapata Miralles’s 56. Dmitry was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Popko blasted 3 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Dmitry Popko was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 59% (19/32) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Popko broke Zapata Miralles 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Popko has an aggregate 3-1 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Sekulic	Popko
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
Pts	69-53	69-56
Total Points	122	125
Winners	28	23
%Winners	41%	33%

Both Sekulic and Popko played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Sekulic and Popko have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (19). Sekulic scored 28 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Popko fired 23 winners (33%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Sekulic	Popko
Aces	9	3
Avg per match	9	3
1st in	35/60	30/62
%1st in	58%	48%
1st pts	28/35	23/30
%1st pts	80%	77%
2nd pts	16/25	19/32
%2nd pts	64%	59%

Sekulic bagged 9 aces . Popko blasted 3 aces . Sekulic won 80% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Popko won 77% 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	Sekulic	Popko
Won	2	4
Converted	2/7	4/6
% Converted	29%	67%
Conceded	3	6
Saved	3	6
% Saved	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

The Australian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Sekulic was rock solid on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 3 break points. The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 6 break points.

Sekulic
	Q1 Bachinger	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	69-53	69-53
Total points	122	122
Winners	28	28
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	9	9
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	35/60	35/60
% 1st in	58%	58%
1st pts	28/35	28/35
% 1st pts	80%	80%
2nd pts	16/25	16/25
% 2nd pts	64%	64%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Popko
	Q1 Zapata Miralles	Total
Score	6-1 7-5
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	69-56	69-56
Total points	125	125
Winners	23	23
%Winners	33%	33%
SERVE
Aces	3	3
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	30/62	30/62
% 1st in	48%	48%
1st pts	23/30	23/30
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	19/32	19/32
% 2nd pts	59%	59%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	6/6	6
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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• Dimitar KuzmanovKuzmanov – Daniel MasurMasur (4-6 6-3 7-6(5)) – See score progression
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