Lorenzo Musetti and Alexei Popyrin will face off in the 1st round of the Phoenix Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 9:00 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Lorenzo Musetti who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lorenzo Musetti is the pick to win this match.
Lorenzo Musetti -> 1.83
Alexei Popyrin -> 1.93
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Prediction and head to head Lorenzo Musetti vs. Alexei Popyrin
This will be the 4th time that Lorenzo Musetti and Alexei Popyrin play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Musetti (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Musetti won 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in the Trieste Challenger back in 2020.
Highlights Lorenzo Musetti vs Alexei Popyrin – Trieste Challenger 26-August-2020
Lorenzo Musetti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-17 | 6-7 | 10-8 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-29 | 10-10 | 16-11 | 0-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 44-30 | 11-10 | 21-7 | 12-10 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-31 | 9-8 | 17-12 | 10-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 30-15 | 6-4 | 20-6 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 56 (career-high), Musetti will start his run in the Phoenix Challenger after he played his last match in Indian Wells where he lost 6-1 6-4 to Opelka in the 2nd round on the 12th of March.
Musetti has a compiled 5-6 win-loss record in 2022, 2-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Musetti has an overall 103-78 record. He has a negative 18-19 record on hard.
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
The Italian has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexei Popyrin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-9 | 7-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-29 | 18-14 | 15-6 | 1-4 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-31 | 7-16 | 7-4 | 3-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 32-26 | 13-11 | 8-6 | 10-5 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-16 | 3-4 | 5-5 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 89, Popyrin will start his run in the Phoenix Challenger after he played his last match in Indian Wells where he lost 6-3 7-5 to Machac in the 1st round on the 10th of March.
Alexei has a compiled 3-9 win-loss record in 2022, 3-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
In terms of his career, Alexei has an overall 186-140 record. He has a positive 97-67 record on hard.
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