Jose Statham and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Astana Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 4. 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 Jose Statham who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jose Statham is the pick to win this match.
Jose Statham -> 1.4
Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha -> 2.78
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Prediction and head to head Jose Statham vs. Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha
There is no head to head record between Jose Statham and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Jose Statham
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-8 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-31 | 20-23 | 4-7 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-27 | 37-26 | 5-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-6 | 7-2 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 1-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 473, Jose will start his run in the Astana Challenger after he played his last match in the Medellin Challenger where he lost 1-6 6-4 7-6(0) to Melzer in the 1st round on the 27th of June.
Jose has an overall 16-16 win-loss record in 2023, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about his overall career, Jose has an overall 306-239 record. He has a positive 197-171 record on hard.
Previously in the Astana Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2010. See his history.
Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-7 | 2-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 19-25 | 18-21 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-24 | 28-22 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-15 | 11-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-4 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 668, Kaliyanda got to the 1st round after beating Mustafa Dustov 6-3 6-2 and Arslanbek Aitkulov 6-1 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Indian had a good straight sets win against Aitkulov (6-1 6-3). During the match Kaliyanda scored 59 points vs Aitkulov’s 40. Kaliyanda was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Kaliyanda scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Kaliyanda put 64% of his first serves in, winning 79% (23/29) of the points behind his 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The Indian broke Aitkulov 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Niki started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points he played.
The Indian’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M25 New Delhi.
Niki has an aggregate 13-13 win-loss record in 2023, 13-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jose StathamStatham – Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Koray KirciKirci (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi – Benjamin LockLock (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajeet RaiRai – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Sidharth RawatRawat (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze – Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky (1-1) – H2H and prediction
