Dmitry Popko and Khumoun Sultanov will face off in the 2nd round of the Astana Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dmitry Popko who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Dmitry Popko is the pick to win this match.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.58
Khumoun Sultanov -> 2.27
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Khumoun Sultanov
This will be the 3rd time that Dmitry Popko and Khumoun Sultanov square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Popko and Sultanov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Sultanov won 6-1 5-7 6-1 in the 2nd round in the Sultan Challenger back in 2019.
Dmitry Popko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 51-17 | 5-0 | 46-17 | 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. 375, Dmitry got to the 2nd round after beating Koray Kirci 6-4 4-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, Dmitry defeated Kirci (6-4 4-6 6-1). During the match, Popko scored 85 points vs Kirci’s 74. Dmitry was exceptionally aggressive to blast 33 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popko blasted 7 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Dmitry Popko was quite effective on serve to win 79% (33/42) of his 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Popko broke Kirci 5 times after converting 42% of his break points (5/12).
Popko has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of his matches (385-237). 1-0 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Popko has an overall 124-76 record in the last years on hard.
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Pensacola.
Dmitry has an overall 24-14 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Astana Challenger
Khumoun Sultanov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-12 | 23-6 | 14-4 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-24 | 28-9 | 7-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2022 | 35-22 | 4-3 | 25-13 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-19 | 3-5 | 6-7 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-10 | 7-5 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 550, Sultanov reached the 2nd round after defeating Shuichi Sekiguchi 7-65 6-4.
In the 1st round, Sultanov had a good straight sets win against Sekiguchi (7-65 6-4). During the match Sultanov scored 73 points vs Sekiguchi’s 65. The Uzbek was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Sultanov recorded 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Khumoun Sultanov was extremely efficient on serve to win 85% (28/33) of his 1st serve and 55% (16/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sultanov broke Sekiguchi twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
The Uzbek’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M25 Al Zahra and M25 Saint Dizier.
Sultanov has a composed 23-13 win-loss record in 2023, 10-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 23 |
| Pts | 85-74 | 73-65 |
| Total Points | 159 | 138 |
| Winners | 33 | 28 |
| %Winners | 39% | 38% |
Both Popko and Sultanov played 1 match. At the moment, Dmitry Popko surrendered 1 set while Khumoun Sultanov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Popko has played 1 set more than Sultanov (3 vs 2). Therefore, Popko played 4 games more than Sultanov. Dmitry scored 33 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Uzbek made 28 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 5 |
| 1st in | 42/76 | 33/62 |
| %1st in | 55% | 53% |
| 1st pts | 33/42 | 28/33 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 19/34 | 16/29 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 55% |
Popko managed to score 7 aces . Sultanov blasted 5 aces . Popko won 79% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Sultanov won 85% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popko | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 2 |
| Converted | 5/12 | 2/7 |
| % Converted | 42% | 29% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 2 | 0 |
| % Saved | 50% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Popko broke his opponent 5 times with a 42% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani lost his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Khumoun broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Sultanov conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Popko | |||
| R1 Kirci |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 4-6 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 85-74 | 85-74 | |
| Total points | 159 | 159 | |
| Winners | 33 | 33 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 42/76 | 42/76 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 33/42 | 33/42 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/34 | 19/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/12 | 5/12 | |
| Converted % | 42% | 42% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 2/4 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sultanov | |||
| R1 Sekiguchi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 23 | |
| pts | 73-65 | 73-65 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 28 | 28 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/62 | 33/62 | |
| % 1st in | 53% | 53% | |
| 1st pts | 28/33 | 28/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/29 | 16/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWWWLWWWW Tennis Scores in Astana Challenger
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- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Leo BorgBorg (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Orel KimhiKimhi – Robin BertrandBertrand (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Koray KirciKirci (6-4 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
- Neil OberleitnerOberleitner – Sidharth RawatRawat (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Evgeny PhilippovPhilippov – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Denis YevseyevYevseyev – Ajeet RaiRai (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (3-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Jose StathamStatham – Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Benjamin LockLock – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Yanki ErelErel – Zura TkemaladzeTkemaladze (6-4 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Karan SinghSingh (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Evgenii TiurnevTiurnev (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Khumoun SultanovSultanov – Shuichi SekiguchiSekiguchi (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Filip PeliwoPeliwo – Timur MaulenovMaulenov (7-64 6-1) – See score progression
- Renta TokudaTokuda – Digvijaypratap SinghSingh (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jose StathamStatham – Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
- Islam OrynbasarOrynbasar – S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev (6-4 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Benjamin LockLock – Yusuke TakahashiTakahashi (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Renta TokudaTokuda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evgeny KarlovskiyKarlovskiy – Filip PeliwoPeliwo (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Khumoun SultanovSultanov (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ZgirovskyZgirovsky – Neil OberleitnerOberleitner (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Jose StathamStatham (0-0) – H2H and prediction
