Dmitry Popko and Raul Brancaccio will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Verona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:30 am on GRAND STAND. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Raul Brancaccio who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Raul Brancaccio is the pick to win this match.
Raul Brancaccio -> 1.63
Dmitry Popko -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Raul Brancaccio
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Raul Brancaccio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-9 | 5-0 | 37-9 | 0-0 | 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. 186, the Kazakhstani will start his run in the Verona Challenger after he played his last match in the Todi Challenger where he lost 6-4 3-6 6-1 to Fonio in the 1st round on the 5th of July.
The Kazakhstani has a composed 9-18 win-loss record in 2022, 4-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 374-225 record. He has a positive 225-118 record on clay.
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2021. See his history.
Raul Brancaccio
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-12 | 6-5 | 3-5 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-32 | 14-7 | 11-19 | 2-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-26 | 7-6 | 31-18 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 47-26 | 2-1 | 43-21 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-12 | 1-1 | 3-4 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 304, the Italian reached the 1st round after defeating Davide Galoppini 6-1 6-4 and Samuel Vincent Ruggeri 6-4 6-1.
In the qualifications, Raul had a good straight sets win against Vincent Ruggeri (6-4 6-1). During the match Brancaccio scored 67 points vs Vincent Ruggeri’s 49. Brancaccio was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Brancaccio scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Raul Brancaccio was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Brancaccio broke Vincent Ruggeri 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Brancaccio 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 59% of the points he played.
Brancaccio’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in M25 Mataro and the Troyes Challenger.
Brancaccio has an aggregate 21-15 win-loss record in 2022, 18-12 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Verona Challenger
Raul has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gilles SimonSimon – Francesco MaestrelliMaestrelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernard TomicTomic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Sebastian OfnerOfner (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Gianluca MagerMager (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro CachinCachin – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Raul BrancaccioBrancaccio (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Pedro Boscardin DiasBoscardin Dias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Filip HoranskyHoransky (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Santiago Fa Rodriguez TavernaFa Rodriguez Taverna – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante – Marco CecchinatoCecchinato (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Norbert GombosGombos (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
