Akira Santillan and Khumoun Sultanov will face off in the qualifications of the Hamburg Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 1:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 Akira Santillan who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Akira Santillan is the pick to win this match.
Akira Santillan -> 1.74
Khumoun Sultanov -> 2.01
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Prediction and head to head Akira Santillan vs. Khumoun Sultanov
This will be the 2nd time that Akira Santillan and Khumoun Sultanov face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Santillan (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Santillan won 7-6(2) 6-4 in the 1st round in the Tashkent Challenger back in 2018.
Akira Santillan
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-7 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 39-33 | 11-13 | 21-14 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 37-28 | 28-19 | 9-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 20-15 | 2-5 | 12-7 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-6 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 411, the Australian reached the qualifications after defeating Louis Wessels 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications, Santillan had a good straight sets win against Wessels (6-1 6-2). During the match, Santillan scored 66 points vs Wessels’s 43. Santillan was exceptionally aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Santillan made 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Akira Santillan was extremely efficient on serve to win 73% (32/44) of his 1st serve and 55% (6/11) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Santillan broke Wessels 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Santillan has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 57% of his matches (272-206). 2-3 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Santillan has an overall 17-14 win-loss record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
The Australian’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Portimao.
Santillan has a compiled 34-30 win-loss record in 2023, 2-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hamburg Challenger
Santillan has never competed in this tournament before.
Khumoun Sultanov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-11 | 23-6 | 14-3 | 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. 426, the Uzbek got to the qualifications after beating Tuncay Duran 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Uzbek had a good straight sets win against Duran (6-4 6-4). During the match Sultanov scored 63 points vs Duran’s 51. Khumoun was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Sultanov fired 3 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Khumoun Sultanov was quite efficient on serve to win 75% (27/36) of his 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Sultanov broke Duran 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Khumoun’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Al Zahra,M25 Saint Dizier and the Astana Challenger.
Sultanov has a composed 35-19 win-loss record in 2023, 8-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Santillan | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 20 |
| Pts | 66-43 | 63-51 |
| Total Points | 109 | 114 |
| Winners | 32 | 27 |
| %Winners | 48% | 43% |
Both Santillan and Sultanov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Santillan and Sultanov have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Santillan played 5 games less than Sultanov. Akira scored 32 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, Sultanov managed to score 27 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Santillan | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 3 |
| 1st in | 44/55 | 36/54 |
| %1st in | 80% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 32/44 | 27/36 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 75% |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 12/18 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 67% |
Santillan made 4 aces . Sultanov bagged 3 aces . Santillan won 73% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Sultanov won 75% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Santillan | Sultanov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 3/4 |
| % Converted | 57% | 75% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 100% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Santillan broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Australian extremely effective on his serve as he has never surrendered a single service game after saving 1 break points. The Uzbek broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Sultanov conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.
| Santillan | |||
| Q1 Wessels |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 66-43 | 66-43 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 32 | 32 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 44/55 | 44/55 | |
| % 1st in | 80% | 80% | |
| 1st pts | 32/44 | 32/44 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Sultanov | |||
| Q1 Duran |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 63-51 | 63-51 | |
| Total points | 114 | 114 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 36/54 | 36/54 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 27/36 | 27/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 75% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/18 | 12/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
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