Alibek Kachmazov and Kenny de Schepper will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Porto Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:30 pm on MCDONALD’S. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alibek Kachmazov who should win in 3 sets.
Alibek Kachmazov -> 1.48
Kenny de Schepper -> 2.52
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Prediction and head to head Alibek Kachmazov vs. Kenny de Schepper
This will be the 2nd time that Alibek Kachmazov and Kenny de Schepper play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kachmazov (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Kachmazov won 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in the Roanne Challenger back in 2022.
Alibek Kachmazov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-21 | 10-11 | 0-1 | 6-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 37-28 | 17-13 | 6-6 | 14-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-31 | 24-14 | 9-6 | 14-10 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2022 | 49-21 | 18-11 | 9-5 | 22-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-20 | 6-8 | 3-6 | 27-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 327, the Russian will start his run in the Porto Challenger after he played his last match in the Segovia Challenger where he lost 6-2 6-3 to Montes-De La Torre in the qualifications on the 24th of July.
Kachmazov has a composed 33-21 win-loss record in 2023, 18-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Alibek’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Sharm ElSheikh,M25 Tbilisi and M25 La Nucia.
Talking about his overall career, Kachmazov has an overall 137-82 record. He has a positive 58-40 record on hard.
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022. See his history.
Kenny de Schepper
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27-28 | 8-8 | 8-7 | 10-12 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 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 |
Ranked no. 420, the French player reached the 1st round after defeating Miguel Damas 7-63 6-1 and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The French player had a good straight sets win against Kaliyanda Poonacha (6-2 6-4). During the match de Schepper scored 66 points vs Kaliyanda Poonacha’s 46. Kenny was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, de Schepper fired 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Kenny de Schepper was exceptionally effective on serve to win 87% (26/30) of his 1st serve and 69% (11/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kenny broke Kaliyanda Poonacha 3 times after converting 27% of his break points (3/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
De Schepper started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to win 59% of the points he played.
De Schepper’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Porto.
Kenny has an aggregate 22-19 win-loss record in 2023, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Porto Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Porto Challenger
- Joao SousaSousa – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-75 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Ricardas BerankisBerankis (2-6 6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian AndreevAndreev – Dominik PalanPalan (6-3 7-62) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca NardiNardi – Nicolas MejiaMejia (3-6 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jaime FariaJaime – Hugo GrenierHugo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Pierre-Hugues HerbertPierre-Hugues – Laurent LokoliLaurent (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Kenny de Schepperde Schepper – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Adrian AndreevAndreev (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Steven DiezDiez – Benjamin BonziBonzi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jules MarieMarie – Benjamin LockLock (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Joao DominguesDomingues – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Frederico Ferreira SilvaFerreira Silva – Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Johannes HaerteisHaerteis – Emilio NavaNava (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Quentin HalysHalys – Gastao EliasElias (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Lucas PoullainPoullain (1-0) – H2H and prediction