Dmitry Popko and Oleksii Krutykh will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Prague 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm 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 -> 1.65
Oleksii Krutykh -> 2.18
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Oleksii Krutykh
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Oleksii Krutykh since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other 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. 171, Dmitry will start his run in the Prague 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Madrid Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 6-1 to Carballes Baena in the 1st round on the 12th of April.
Dmitry has an overall 7-10 win-loss record in 2022, 2-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Dmitry has an overall 372-217 record. He has a positive 223-111 record on clay.
Previously in the Prague 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2020. See his history.
Oleksii Krutykh
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-35 | 7-6 | 24-28 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-32 | 13-8 | 15-16 | 4-5 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 49-27 | 2-3 | 44-20 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-25 | 8-3 | 32-20 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 13-7 | 7-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 325 (career-high), Oleksii got to the 1st round after beating Matthew William Donald 6-3 6-4 and Andrew Paulson 6-4 5-7 6-4.
In the qualifications, Krutykh defeated Paulson (6-4 5-7 6-4). During the match Krutykh scored 115 points vs Paulson’s 111. Krutykh was pretty aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about serving, Krutykh bagged 2 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Oleksii Krutykh lost the serve 3 times and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Krutykh put 58% of his first serves in, winning 67% (42/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (25/45) on the 2nd serve. Oleksii broke Paulson 4 times after converting 27% of his break points (4/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Ukrainian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Ukrainian’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Antalya.
Oleksii has an overall 18-5 win-loss record in 2022, 17-5 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Ryan PenistonPeniston (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Dennis NovakNovak (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Oleksii KrutykhKrutykh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – Tobias KamkeKamke (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian OfnerOfner – Jurij RodionovRodionov (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Martin KrumichKrumich (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng – Alejandro Moro CanasMoro Canas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio NavaNava – Lucas PouillePouille (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas MachacMachac – Michael VrbenskyVrbensky (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Nicholas David IonelDavid Ionel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jonas ForejtekForejtek – Evgeny TyurnevTyurnev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
