Illya Marchenko and Viktor Durasovic will face off in the 2nd round of the Vilnus Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Illya Marchenko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Illya Marchenko is the pick to win this match.
Illya Marchenko -> 1.66
Viktor Durasovic -> 2.10
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Prediction and head to head Illya Marchenko vs. Viktor Durasovic
This will be the 2nd time that Illya Marchenko and Viktor Durasovic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Durasovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Durasovic won 6-3 6-0 in the Rubber 1 in 1 back in 2021.
Illya Marchenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-19 | 6-12 | 0-1 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-22 | 17-5 | 6-6 | 18-10 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-25 | 9-10 | 3-4 | 8-9 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-28 | 5-7 | 2-5 | 26-12 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 15-14 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 15-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 377, the Ukrainian got to the 2nd round after beating Mirza Basic 7-5 6-2.
In the 1st round, Marchenko had a good straight sets win against Basic (7-5 6-2). During the match, Marchenko scored 58 points vs Basic’s 43. Marchenko was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Regarding the service games, Marchenko made 5 aces and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults. Illya Marchenko was extremely effective on serve to win 81% (26/32) of his 1st serve and 78% (14/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Marchenko was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Basic 3 times.
Marchenko has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (289-230). 2-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Marchenko has an aggregate 120-68 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Illya has a composed 15-20 win-loss record in 2022, 2-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Vilnus Challenger
Marchenko has never competed in this tournament before.
Viktor Durasovic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 39-28 | 14-8 | 15-15 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-37 | 5-8 | 17-18 | 2-9 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
| 2022 | 28-36 | 2-7 | 15-18 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-24 | 2-4 | 13-12 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-14 | 1-5 | 1-2 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 393, Viktor got to the 2nd round after defeating Tomas Machac 6-3 7-65.
In the 1st round, Durasovic had a good straight sets win against Machac (6-3 7-65). During the match Durasovic scored 72 points vs Machac’s 60. Viktor was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Durasovic struck 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Viktor Durasovic was quite effective on serve to win 80% (36/45) 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. The Norwegian broke Machac once after converting 17% of his break points (1/6).
The Norwegian has a compiled 22-30 win-loss record in 2022, 5-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Marchenko | Durasovic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 22 |
| Pts | 58-43 | 72-60 |
| Total Points | 101 | 132 |
| Winners | 26 | 36 |
| %Winners | 45% | 50% |
Both Marchenko and Durasovic played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Marchenko and Durasovic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Marchenko played 2 games less than Durasovic. The Ukrainian scored 26 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Durasovic scored 36 winners (50%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Marchenko | Durasovic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 4 |
| 1st in | 32/50 | 45/65 |
| %1st in | 64% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 36/45 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 14/18 | 14/20 |
| %2nd pts | 78% | 70% |
Marchenko struck 5 aces . Durasovic blasted 4 aces . Marchenko won 81% points on his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 78% of the points. On the other side, Durasovic won 80% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 70% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Marchenko | Durasovic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 1 |
| Converted | 3/3 | 1/6 |
| % Converted | 100% | 17% |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Marchenko broke his opponent 3 times with a 100% conversion rate. Illya quite strong on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points. Viktor broke his opponent once with a 17% conversion rate. The Norwegian was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Marchenko | |||
| R1 Basic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 58-43 | 58-43 | |
| Total points | 101 | 101 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 32/50 | 32/50 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 26/32 | 26/32 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/18 | 14/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 78% | 78% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 100% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Durasovic | |||
| R1 Machac |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-60 | 72-60 | |
| Total points | 132 | 132 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 50% | 50% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/65 | 45/65 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 36/45 | 36/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/20 | 14/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 70% | 70% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/6 | 1/6 | |
| Converted % | 17% | 17% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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WWWWLLWLWW Tennis Scores in Vilnus Challenger
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Tomas MachacMachac (6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Ainius SabaliauskasSabaliauskas (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Lukas KleinKlein – Alastair GrayGray (6-3 3-6 7-63) – See score progression
- Zdenek KolarKolar – David PoljakPoljak (6-76 6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Nerman FaticFatic – Gabriel DecampsDecamps (6-4 7-5) – See score progression
- Mate ValkuszValkusz – Ernests GulbisGulbis (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Gianluca MagerMager – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-75 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic (6-3 7-63) – See score progression
- Edas ButvilasButvilas – Johan NiklesNikles (3-6 7-65 6-1) – See score progression
- Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Mirza BasicBasic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Vilius GaubasGaubas (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Laurent LokoliLokoli – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Gianluca MagerMager – Zdenek KolarKolar (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Cem IlkelIlkel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktor DurasovicDurasovic – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lukas KleinKlein – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dan AddedAdded – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Terence AtmaneAtmane – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
