Kenny de Schepper and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Porto Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on MCDONALD’S. 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 Kenny de Schepper who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Kenny de Schepper is the pick to win this match.
Kenny de Schepper -> 1.22
Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha -> 3.94
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Prediction and head to head Kenny de Schepper vs. Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha
There is no head to head record between Kenny de Schepper and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Kenny de Schepper
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-31 | 14-9 | 4-8 | 13-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 7-4 | 8-14 | 12-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-35 | 6-7 | 18-16 | 17-12 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-24 | 22-8 | 5-5 | 11-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 6-4 | 9-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 415, the French player reached the qualifications after beating Miguel Damas 7-63 6-1.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Damas (7-63 6-1). During the match, de Schepper scored 72 points vs Damas’s 51. Kenny was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about the service games, de Schepper struck 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Kenny de Schepper was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 74% (29/39) of his 1st serve and 75% (18/24) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kenny broke Damas twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
de Schepper has positive match record in the last 10 years having won 52% of his matches (296-268). 5-1 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, de Schepper has an aggregate 68-48 record in the last years on hard.
The French player best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Porto.
De Schepper has an aggregate 21-19 win-loss record in 2023, 5-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-11 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 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, will start his run in the Porto Challenger after he played his last match in the Porto Challenger where he beat 7-5 6-1 to Potenza in the qualifications on the 30th of July.
Kaliyanda Poonacha has an aggregate 13-14 win-loss record in 2023, 13-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Indian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in M25 New Delhi.
In terms of his career, The Indian has an overall 128-137 record. He has a negative 110-112 record on hard.
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Niki has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | de Schepper | Kaliyanda Poonacha |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 19 |
| Pts | 72-51 | 64-44 |
| Total Points | 123 | 108 |
| Winners | 29 | 29 |
| %Winners | 40% | 45% |
Both de Schepper and Kaliyanda Poonacha played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, de Schepper and Kaliyanda Poonacha have played the same amount of sets 2. However, de Schepper played 1 game more than Kaliyanda Poonacha. De Schepper scored 29 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Niki struck 29 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | de Schepper | Kaliyanda Poonacha |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 8 |
| 1st in | 39/63 | 36/52 |
| %1st in | 62% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 29/36 |
| %1st pts | 74% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 18/24 | 9/16 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 56% |
de Schepper managed to score 7 aces . Kaliyanda Poonacha blasted 8 aces . de Schepper won 74% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Kaliyanda Poonacha won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | de Schepper | Kaliyanda Poonacha |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 4 |
| Converted | 2/5 | 4/6 |
| % Converted | 40% | 67% |
| Conceded | 4 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 1 |
| % Saved | 100% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The French player broke his opponent twice with a 40% conversion rate. Kenny pretty effective on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. Niki broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Kaliyanda Poonacha conceded his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| de Schepper | |||
| Q1 Damas |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-63 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 72-51 | 72-51 | |
| Total points | 123 | 123 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 39/63 | 39/63 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 29/39 | 29/39 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 74% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/24 | 18/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kaliyanda Poonacha | |||
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | |||
| Tot Set | 0 | ||
| Tot Games | 0 | ||
| pts | 0-0 | ||
| Total points | 0 | ||
| Winners | 0 | ||
| %Winners | 0% | ||
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | ||
| Double Faults | 0 | ||
| 1st in | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st in | 0% | ||
| 1st pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 1st pts | 0% | ||
| 2nd pts | 0/0 | ||
| % 2nd pts | 0% | ||
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | ||
| Converted | 0/0 | ||
| Converted % | 0% | ||
| Conceded | 0 | ||
| Saved | 0 | ||
| Saved % | 0% | ||
| Times Broken | 0 | ||
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