Orlando Luz and Dmitry Popko will face off in the 1st round of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CANCHA 2. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Orlando Luz who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Orlando Luz is the pick to win this match.
Orlando Luz -> 1.45
Dmitry Popko -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Orlando Luz vs. Dmitry Popko
This will be the 4th time that Orlando Luz and Dmitry Popko face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Popko (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on clay.
The last time that they played, Popko won 6-3 6-1 in the 1st round in the Verona Challenger back in 2021.
Orlando Luz
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-14 | 0-0 | 14-14 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-21 | 0-1 | 34-20 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-18 | 0-0 | 24-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-28 | 0-2 | 40-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 8-8 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 366, Luz will start his run in the Buenos Aires Challenger after he played his last match in the Brasilia Challenger where he lost 6-0 6-4 to Garin in the 1st round on the 21st of November.
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Talking about his overall career, Orlando has an overall 309-190 record. He has a positive 292-167 record on clay.
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2018. See his history.
Dmitry Popko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 45-13 | 5-0 | 40-13 | 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. 417, the Kazakhstani got to the 1st round after beating Alexis Gurmendi 6-4 6-71 6-3 and Leonardo Aboian 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Aboian (6-3 6-3). During the match Popko scored 62 points vs Aboian’s 42. Popko was pretty aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Popko made 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Dmitry Popko was quite effective on serve to win 78% (28/36) of his 1st serve and 65% (11/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani broke Aboian 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Dmitry started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Popko has a compiled 2-0 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
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