Timofey Skatov and Ivan Gakhov will fight against each other in the quarter of the Girona Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 12:00 pm on PISTA 4. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.57
Ivan Gakhov -> 2.25
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Prediction and head to head Timofey Skatov vs. Ivan Gakhov
There is no head to head record between Timofey Skatov and Ivan Gakhov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Timofey Skatov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 11-9 | 1-4 | 10-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 155, Timofey reached the quarter after beating Laurent Lokoli 6-3 6-2 and Miljan Zekic 6-0 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Timofey had a good straight sets win against Zekic (6-0 6-4). During the match, Skatov scored 64 points vs Zekic’s 40. Skatov was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Skatov scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Timofey Skatov was quite effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of his 1st serve and 67% (8/12) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani broke Zekic 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Timofey hasn’t conceded yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
Skatov has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (142-113). 7-3 on clay in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Skatov has a composed124-88 record in the last 7 years on clay.
Timofey’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Concepcion Challenger.
Timofey has an overall 10-6 win-loss record in 2023, 7-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Girona Challenger
Timofey has never competed in this tournament before.
Ivan Gakhov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-15 | 1-2 | 8-12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-30 | 2-4 | 26-21 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 56-32 | 1-3 | 53-26 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 43-28 | 0-1 | 38-23 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 14-12 | 5-5 | 8-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 241, Ivan reached the quarter after beating Abedallah Shelbayh 6-3 4-6 6-4 and Fabian Marozsan 6-4 7-5.
In the 2nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Marozsan (6-4 7-5). During the match Gakhov scored 72 points vs Marozsan’s 64. The Russian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Gakhov bagged 6 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Ivan Gakhov was extremely efficient on serve to win 76% (29/38) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Ivan broke Marozsan 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 52% of the points he played.
Ivan has an aggregate 6-8 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Skatov | Gakhov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 33 | 51 |
| Pts | 124-86 | 170-157 |
| Total Points | 210 | 327 |
| Winners | 42 | 70 |
| %Winners | 34% | 41% |
Both Skatov and Gakhov played 2 matches. At the moment, Ivan Gakhov conceded 1 set while Timofey Skatov hasn’t lost a set so far. Skatov has played 1 set(s) less than Gakhov (4 vs 5). Therefore, Skatov played 18 games less than Gakhov. The Kazakhstani scored 42 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Ivan recorded 70 winners (41%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Skatov | Gakhov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 15 |
| Avg per match | 0.5 | 7.5 |
| 1st in | 65/96 | 94/159 |
| %1st in | 68% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 42/65 | 70/94 |
| %1st pts | 65% | 74% |
| 2nd pts | 19/31 | 34/65 |
| %2nd pts | 61% | 52% |
Skatov bagged 1 ace (0.5 per match). Gakhov also bagged 15 aces (7.5 per match). Skatov won 65% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Gakhov won 74% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Skatov | Gakhov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 11 | 6 |
| Converted | 11/21 | 6/13 |
| % Converted | 52% | 46% |
| Conceded | 7 | 12 |
| Saved | 4 | 9 |
| % Saved | 57% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 |
The Kazakhstani broke his opponents 11 times with a 52% conversion rate. Skatov dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Ivan broke his opponents 6 times with a 46% conversion rate. Ivan conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Skatov | ||||
| R1 Lokoli |
R2 Zekic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 16 | 33 | |
| pts | 60-46 | 64-40 | 124-86 | |
| Total points | 106 | 104 | 210 | |
| Winners | 17 | 25 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 39% | 34% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 35/47 | 65/96 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 74% | 68% | |
| 1st pts | 17/30 | 25/35 | 42/65 | |
| % 1st pts | 57% | 71% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/19 | 8/12 | 19/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 67% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
| Converted | 6/12 | 5/9 | 11/21 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 56% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2/3 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 67% | 59% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Gakhov | ||||
| R1 Shelbayh |
R2 Marozsan |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 4-6 6-4 | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Tot Games | 29 | 22 | 51 | |
| pts | 98-93 | 72-64 | 170-157 | |
| Total points | 191 | 136 | 327 | |
| Winners | 41 | 29 | 70 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 40% | 41% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 9 | 6 | 15 | |
| Double Faults | 8 | 5 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 56/92 | 38/67 | 94/159 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 57% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 41/56 | 29/38 | 70/94 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 76% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/36 | 16/29 | 34/65 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 55% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/5 | 6/13 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 60% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 4 | 12 | |
| Saved | 6/8 | 3/4 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
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