Aleksandar Vukic and Dmitry Popko will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Sarasota Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on COURT 8. 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 Aleksandar Vukic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Vukic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Vukic -> 1.155
Dmitry Popko -> 4.85
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Vukic vs. Dmitry Popko
This will be the 3rd time that Aleksandar Vukic and Dmitry Popko square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Vukic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they competed against each other, Vukic won 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in the Charlottesville Challenger back in 2021.
Aleksandar Vukic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 18-24 | 5-9 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 8-6 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-33 | 34-20 | 9-4 | 1-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-25 | 14-15 | 4-5 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-26 | 8-5 | 10-11 | 11-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 10-4 | 9-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 144, the Australian will start his run in the Sarasota Challenger after he played his last match in Houston where he lost 6-4 4-6 6-4 to Kudla in the 1st round on the 3rd of April.
The Australian has a compiled 17-11 win-loss record in 2023, 2-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Aleksandar has an overall 247-179 record. He has a positive 81-57 record on clay.
Previously in the Sarasota Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Dmitry Popko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 53-17 | 5-0 | 48-17 | 0-0 | 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. 437, Dmitry got to the 1st round after beating Isaiah Strode 6-2 6-2 and Zachary Svajda 6-0 6-3.
In the qualifications, Dmitry had a good straight sets win against Svajda (6-0 6-3). During the match Popko scored 54 points vs Svajda’s 26. Dmitry was very aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Popko struck 3 aces and he was pretty solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Dmitry Popko was quite effective on serve to win 95% (20/21) of his 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Popko broke Svajda 5 times after converting 83% of his break points (5/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dmitry started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 67% of the points he played.
Popko has a composed 3-2 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Emilio GomezGomez (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Denis KudlaKudla (5-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Facundo Diaz AcostaDiaz Acosta (3-6 6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (6-3 1-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Juncheng ShangShang (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuki Bhambri/Saketh-Sai MyneniBhambri/Saketh-Sai Myneni – Martin Damm/Toby Alex KodatDamm/Toby Alex Kodat (3-6 6-4 10-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomas MachacMachac – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Christian HarrisonHarrison (6-4 4-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Dmitry PopkoPopko (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zizou BergsBergs – Luca PotenzaPotenza (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mateus De Carvalho CardosoDe Carvalho Cardoso – Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tristan BoyerBoyer – Jack SockSock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction
