Saba Purtseladze and Alexander Zgirovsky will play each other in the 1st round of the Astana Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Saba Purtseladze who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Saba Purtseladze is the pick to win this match.
Saba Purtseladze -> 1.5
Alexander Zgirovsky -> 2.46
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Prediction and head to head Saba Purtseladze vs. Alexander Zgirovsky
This will be the 3rd time that Saba Purtseladze and Alexander Zgirovsky play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Purtseladze and Zgirovsky (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Purtseladze won 7-6(6) 3-6 6-4 in the 1st round in M25 Sharm ElSheikh back in 2022.
Saba Purtseladze
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-34 | 25-20 | 9-11 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 47-37 | 44-27 | 1-7 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-35 | 34-26 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 28-23 | 20-16 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 436, Purtseladze will start his run in the Astana Challenger after he played his last match in the Iasi Challenger where he lost 5-7 7-5 6-4 to Bocchi in the qualifications on the 9th of July.
Purtseladze has an overall 28-19 win-loss record in 2023, 25-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Purtseladze’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh and M25 Sharm ElSheikh.
Talking about his overall career, Purtseladze has an overall 101-96 record. He has a positive 82-55 record on hard.
Previously in the Astana Challenger
Purtseladze has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexander Zgirovsky
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-20 | 6-9 | 6-9 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 23-21 | 14-13 | 9-6 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-15 | 25-14 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 14-12 | 0-2 | 6-5 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 657, Zgirovsky reached the 1st round after defeating Sanjar Fayziev 4-6 6-1 6-2 and Daniil Glinka 6-74 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications against Glinka, Zgirovsky recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-74 6-2 6-4). During the match Zgirovsky scored 115 points vs Glinka’s 107. Zgirovsky was extremely aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about serving, Zgirovsky managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Alexander Zgirovsky lost the serve 4 times and he saved 9 break points. Furthermore, Zgirovsky put 68% of his first serves in, winning 61% (43/71) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (17/34) on the 2nd serve. The Belarussian broke Glinka 7 times after converting 47% of his break points (7/15).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Belarussian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Belarussian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M25 Kursumlijska Banja.
Alexander has an overall 18-13 win-loss record in 2023, 9-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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