Alexander Shevchenko and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida will play each other in the 1st round of the Iasi Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 5. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Shevchenko who should win in 3 sets.
Alexander Shevchenko -> 1.50
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida -> 2.50
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Shevchenko and Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Pucinelli De Almeida (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Pucinelli De Almeida won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in M15 Antalya back in 2021.
Alexander Shevchenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22-35 | 8-13 | 6-12 | 7-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-34 | 16-15 | 19-13 | 10-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-33 | 2-4 | 41-23 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-27 | 8-4 | 33-17 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-8 | 13-4 | 11-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 155 (career-high), the Russian will start his run in the Iasi Challenger after he played his last match in the Salzburg Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(4) to Moura Monteiro in the 2nd round on the 6th of July.
Shevchenko has a composed 35-16 win-loss record in 2022, 33-14 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Russian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Antalya and the Bratislava Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Shevchenko has an overall 170-85 record. He has a positive 137-67 record on clay.
Previously in the Iasi Challenger
Shevchenko has never competed in this tournament before.
Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 38-27 | 0-1 | 38-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 20-25 | 1-3 | 19-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-29 | 1-3 | 27-24 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 72-29 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 13-7 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 228, the Brazilian reached the 1st round after defeating Sebastian Gima 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, Matheus had a good straight sets win against Gima (6-2 6-4). During the match Pucinelli De Almeida scored 68 points vs Gima’s 48. Pucinelli De Almeida was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Pucinelli De Almeida bagged 3 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Pucinelli De Almeida put 70% of his first serves in, winning 76% (28/37) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. The Brazilian broke Gima 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Pucinelli De Almeida has a composed 14-17 win-loss record in 2022, 13-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Iasi Challenger
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- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Lukas KleinKlein (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas MiedlerMiedler – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolae FrunzaFrunza – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Louis WesselsWessels – Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andrey ChepelevChepelev – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nikolas Sanchez-IzquierdoSanchez-Izquierdo – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona – Pablo AndujarAndujar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan PalosiPalosi – Joris De LooreDe Loore (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jiri LeheckaLehecka – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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