H2H, PREDICTION Dmitry Popko vs Evgeny Donskoy | Nur-Sultan Challenger odds, preview, pick

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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Evgeny Donskoy

Dmitry Popko and Evgeny Donskoy will play each other in the quarter of the Nur-Sultan Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:30 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Evgeny Donskoy who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Evgeny Donskoy is the pick to win this match.
Evgeny Donskoy -> 1.9
Dmitry Popko -> 1.9

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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Evgeny Donskoy

This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Evgeny Donskoy square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Donskoy (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Donskoy won 3-6 6-1 9-7 in the qualifications in at the Australian Open back in 2017.

Dmitry Popko

Dmitry Popko
Dmitry Popko

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Rank
175
High
162
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 64-32 7-2 57-28 0-2 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. 189, Popko got to the quarter after beating Jose Statham 6-3 6-4 and Yanki Erel 7-66 6-4.

In the 2nd round, Popko had a good straight sets win against Erel (7-66 6-4). During the match, Popko scored 88 points vs Erel’s 79. The Kazakhstani was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about the service games, Popko fired 8 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Dmitry Popko was extremely effective on serve to win 72% (31/43) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Dmitry broke Erel 3 times after converting 33% of his break points (3/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Dmitry hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Popko has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (376-226). 7-6 on hard in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Popko has a compiled 127-77 match record in the last years on hard.

The Kazakhstani has a composed 11-19 win-loss record in 2022, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the The Nur-Sultan Challenger

Popko
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Evgeny Donskoy

Evgeny Donskoy
Evgeny Donskoy

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
457
High
65
LWWLWLLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 23-20 23-20 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
2023 48-31 39-17 3-4 6-9 0-1 0-0
2022 18-22 6-12 4-7 8-2 0-0 0-1
2021 19-28 8-8 2-7 7-9 2-4 0-0
2020 10-16 7-9 0-3 1-3 0-0 2-1

Ranked no. 301, the Russian got to the quarter after beating Dominik Palan 6-2 7-63 and David Poljak 6-4 3-6 6-3.

In the 2nd round, Evgeny defeated Poljak (6-4 3-6 6-3). During the match Donskoy and Poljak scored the same amount of points (92). However, the world no. 189 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. The Russian was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

Talking about serving, Donskoy recorded 3 aces and he committed only 9 double faults. Evgeny Donskoy lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Donskoy put 52% of his first serves in, winning 67% (33/49) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (21/45) on the 2nd serve. Evgeny broke Poljak 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Evgeny has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Evgeny has an aggregate 8-13 win-loss record in 2022, 4-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Donskoy
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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

D.Popko
E.Donskoy
3h:15
3h:15
Time on court​
3h:30
3h:30
1h:50
1h:50
Last match​
!
2h:03
2h:03
2
2
Match played
2
2
42
42
Games Played​
49
49
4
4
Set played​​
5
5
155
155
Total points​
165
165
77.5
77.5
Avg point​
82.5
82.5
50
50
Winners
58
58
25
25
Avg Winners​
29
29
32%
32%
Ratio winners
35%
35%
-- Serve --
12
12
Aces
5
5
6
6
Avg Aces
2.5
2.5
9
9
Double Faults
9
9
4.5
4.5
Avg Double Faults
4.5
4.5
50/64
50/64
1st won total​
58/80
58/80
!
78%
78%
1st won %
!
73%
73%
42/68
42/68
2nd won total​
43/76
43/76
!
62%
62%
2nd won %
57%
57%
-- Break Points --
5/14
5/14
BP won
6/14
6/14
2.5/7
2.5/7
Avg BP won
3/7
3/7
36%
36%
Won
43%
43%
8
8
Conceded
6
6
4
4
Avg Conceded
3
3
2
2
Broken
3
3
1
1
Avg Broken
1.5
1.5
6
6
Saved
3
3

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Popko Donskoy
Match played 2 2
Tot Set 4 5
Tot Games 42 49
Pts 155-129 165-148
Total Points 284 313
Winners 50 58
%Winners 32% 35%

Both Popko and Donskoy played 2 matches. At the moment, Evgeny Donskoy dropped 1 set while Dmitry Popko hasn’t dropped a set so far. Popko has played 1 set(s) less than Donskoy (4 vs 5). Therefore, Popko played 7 games less than Donskoy. Popko scored 50 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Evgeny struck 58 winners (35%).

Serve Performance

Serve Popko Donskoy
Aces 12 5
Avg per match 6 2.5
1st in 64/132 80/156
%1st in 48% 51%
1st pts 50/64 58/80
%1st pts 78% 73%
2nd pts 42/68 43/76
%2nd pts 62% 57%

Popko fired 12 aces (6 per match). Donskoy managed to score 5 aces (2.5 per match). Popko won 78% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Donskoy won 73% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Popko Donskoy
Won 5 6
Converted 5/14 6/14
% Converted 36% 43%
Conceded 8 6
Saved 6 3
% Saved 75% 50%
Times Broken 2 3

Popko broke his opponents 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Dmitry dropped his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Donskoy conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Popko
R1
Statham
R2
Erel
Total
Score 6-3 6-4 7-66 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 19 23 42
pts 67-50 88-79 155-129
Total points 117 167 284
Winners 19 31 50
%Winners 28% 35% 32%
SERVE
Aces 4 8 12
Double Faults 2 7 9
1st in 21/55 43/77 64/132
% 1st in 38% 56% 48%
1st pts 19/21 31/43 50/64
% 1st pts 90% 72% 78%
2nd pts 23/34 19/34 42/68
% 2nd pts 68% 56% 62%
Breaks
Won 2 3 5
Converted 2/5 3/9 5/14
Converted % 40% 33% 36%
Conceded 0 8 8
Saved 0/0 6/8 6
Saved % 75% 38%
Times Broken 0 2 2
Donskoy
R1
Palan
R2
Poljak
Total
Score 6-2 7-63 6-4 3-6 6-3
Tot Set 2 3 5
Tot Games 21 28 49
pts 73-56 92-92 165-148
Total points 129 184 313
Winners 25 33 58
%Winners 34% 36% 35%
SERVE
Aces 2 3 5
Double Faults 0 9 9
1st in 31/62 49/94 80/156
% 1st in 50% 52% 51%
1st pts 25/31 33/49 58/80
% 1st pts 81% 67% 73%
2nd pts 22/31 21/45 43/76
% 2nd pts 71% 47% 57%
Breaks
Won 2 4 6
Converted 2/5 4/9 6/14
Converted % 40% 44% 43%
Conceded 0 6 6
Saved 0/0 3/6 3
Saved % 50% 25%
Times Broken 0 3 3

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Popko
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Donskoy
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2024 2023 2022
64 - 30
23 - 20
7-2
Hard
23-20
57-26
Clay
0-0

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