Dmitry Popko and Kaichi Uchida will face off in the 1st round of the Malaga Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Kaichi Uchida who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kaichi Uchida is the pick to win this match.
Kaichi Uchida -> 1.88
Dmitry Popko -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Kaichi Uchida
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Kaichi Uchida since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Dmitry Popko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-31 | 15-11 | 8-17 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 195, Dmitry will start his run in the Malaga Challenger after he played his last match in the Bratislava Challenger where he lost 6-7(3) 6-0 6-1 to Kovalik in the 2nd round on the 8th of June.
The Kazakhstani has an aggregate 9-16 win-loss record in 2022, 5-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Dmitry has an overall 374-223 record. He has a positive 125-76 record on hard.
Previously in the Malaga Challenger
Dmitry has never competed in this tournament before.
Kaichi Uchida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-31 | 39-21 | 0-3 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 42-30 | 18-22 | 16-6 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 17-33 | 4-18 | 3-10 | 9-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-34 | 24-23 | 8-5 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 27-13 | 6-11 | 1-2 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 203 (career-high), will start his run in the Malaga Challenger after he won the title in the Oeiras 3 Challenger after beating 6-2 6-4 Coppejans in the final.
Uchida has an overall 18-17 win-loss record in 2022, 7-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Japanese’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Oeiras 3 Challenger.
The Japanese won his last 5 matches.
In terms of his career, The Japanese has an overall 319-295 record. He has a positive 177-171 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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- Alberto Barroso CamposBarroso Campos – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Steven DiezDiez – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Emilio GomezGomez – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-66 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bernard TomicTomic – Daniel MasurMasur (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov – Yuki BhambriBhambri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Lukas LackoLacko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Marek GengelGengel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Emilio NavaNava (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DecampsDecamps – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
