Timofey Skatov and Ji Sung Nam will face off in the 1st round of the Nur-Sultan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Timofey Skatov who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Timofey Skatov is the pick to win this match.
Timofey Skatov -> 1.49
Ji Sung Nam -> 2.54
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Prediction and head to head Timofey Skatov vs. Ji Sung Nam
There is no head to head record between Timofey Skatov and Ji Sung Nam since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Timofey Skatov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-15 | 1-4 | 23-10 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 6-4 | 23-22 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-32 | 4-3 | 30-27 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 0-2 | 33-21 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 37-14 | 3-1 | 34-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 221, Skatov will start his run in the the Nur-Sultan Challenger after he played his last match in the Amersfoort Challenger where he lost 7-6(1) 7-6(4) to Houkes in the 1st round on the 11th of July.
Timofey has a compiled 14-19 win-loss record in 2022, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Skatov’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Roseto Degli Abruzzi 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Skatov has an overall 112-94 record. He has a flat 10-10 record on hard.
Previously in the The Nur-Sultan Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
Ji Sung Nam
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-7 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 15-20 | 13-15 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-19 | 24-13 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 4-7 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-6 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 515, Sung Nam reached the 1st round after beating Alexander Zgirovsky 6-1 6-1 and Saba Purtseladze 3-6 7-5 6-0.
In the qualifications against Purtseladze, The Korean recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-5 6-0). During the match Sung Nam scored 96 points vs Purtseladze’s 79. Ji was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Sung Nam managed to score 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Ji Sung Nam was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (34/42) of his 1st serve and 62% (16/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sung Nam broke Purtseladze 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Sung Nam started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 60% of the points he played.
Sung Nam’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Chiang Rai.
The Korean has a compiled 19-11 win-loss record in 2022, 17-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Yanki ErelErel (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Timofey SkatovSkatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Andrew PaulsonPaulson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Benjamin LockLock – Sergey FominFomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- David PoljakPoljak – Akira SantillanSantillan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Jose StathamStatham (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shintaro ImaiImai – Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan LiutarevichLiutarevich – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas CatarinaCatarina – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yan BondarevskiyBondarevskiy – Denis IstominIstomin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alafia AyeniAyeni – Dostanbek TashbulatovTashbulatov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
