Denis Yevseyev and Denis Istomin will square off in the qualifications of the Maia Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Denis Yevseyev who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Denis Yevseyev is the pick to win this match.
Denis Yevseyev -> 1.61
Denis Istomin -> 2.2
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Prediction and head to head Denis Yevseyev vs. Denis Istomin
This will be the 3rd time that Denis Yevseyev and Denis Istomin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Yevseyev and Istomin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Yevseyev won 7-5 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Alicante Challenger back in 2021.
Denis Yevseyev
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-36 | 14-14 | 12-12 | 7-8 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-36 | 23-16 | 16-14 | 11-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 39-31 | 11-9 | 12-12 | 14-9 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2021 | 36-30 | 4-5 | 22-15 | 10-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 16-14 | 10-9 | 2-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 295, the Kazakhstani reached the qualifications after defeating Vlad Victor Cornea 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Denis had a good straight sets win against Victor Cornea (6-1 6-2). During the match, Yevseyev scored 59 points vs Victor Cornea’s 28. Yevseyev was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Yevseyev scored 6 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Denis Yevseyev was quite effective on serve to win 95% (20/21) of his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Denis broke Victor Cornea 5 times after converting 33% of his break points (5/15).
Yevseyev has good record in the last 10 years having won 55% of his matches (319-257). 12-11 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Yevseyev has an aggregate 106-83 match record in the last years on clay.
Denis’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Vilnius and the Sultan Challenger.
Denis has an aggregate 39-30 win-loss record in 2022, 12-11 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Maia Challenger
Denis Istomin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 13-26 | 8-10 | 4-7 | 1-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 17-29 | 2-8 | 7-8 | 7-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 5-6 | 2-3 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 24-32 | 17-14 | 4-9 | 3-4 | 0-5 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 479, the Uzbek reached the qualifications after defeating Guilherme Valdoleiros 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The Uzbek had a good straight sets win against Valdoleiros (6-1 6-1). During the match Istomin scored 55 points vs Valdoleiros’s 29. The Uzbek was quite aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Istomin managed to score 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Denis Istomin was pretty effective on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 75% (6/8) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Istomin broke Valdoleiros 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Denis has an aggregate 12-25 win-loss record in 2022, 3-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Yevseyev | Istomin |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 14 |
| Pts | 59-28 | 55-29 |
| Total Points | 87 | 84 |
| Winners | 20 | 23 |
| %Winners | 34% | 42% |
Both Yevseyev and Istomin played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Yevseyev and Istomin have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Yevseyev played 1 game more than Istomin. The Kazakhstani scored 20 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Denis scored 23 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Yevseyev | Istomin |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 3 |
| 1st in | 21/33 | 29/37 |
| %1st in | 64% | 78% |
| 1st pts | 20/21 | 23/29 |
| %1st pts | 95% | 79% |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 6/8 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 75% |
Yevseyev blasted 6 aces . Istomin made 3 aces . Yevseyev won 95% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Istomin won 79% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Yevseyev | Istomin |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/15 | 5/7 |
| % Converted | 33% | 71% |
| Conceded | 0 | 2 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Yevseyev broke his opponent 5 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The Uzbek broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Denis was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Yevseyev | |||
| Q1 Victor Cornea |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 59-28 | 59-28 | |
| Total points | 87 | 87 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 21/33 | 21/33 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 20/21 | 20/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 95% | 95% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/15 | 5/15 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Istomin | |||
| Q1 Valdoleiros |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 55-29 | 55-29 | |
| Total points | 84 | 84 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/37 | 29/37 | |
| % 1st in | 78% | 78% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/8 | 6/8 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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