Alexander Ritschard and Dmitry Popko will clash against each other in the semifinal of the Savannah Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:30 pm on LANDINGS COMPANY STADIUM. 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 Alexander Ritschard who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Alexander Ritschard is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Ritschard -> 1.73
Dmitry Popko -> 2
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Ritschard vs. Dmitry Popko
This will be the 2nd time that Alexander Ritschard and Dmitry Popko face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Popko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Popko won 6-3 6-2 in the semifinal in M15 Sunrise back in 2019.
Alexander Ritschard
21 - 10win/loss
118
99
LLLLLWWWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 42-23 | 7-5 | 29-8 | 5-9 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-30 | 6-8 | 13-11 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-27 | 7-5 | 11-11 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-23 | 1-4 | 20-14 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 24-13 | 11-5 | 12-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 209, Alexander reached the semifinal after beating Stefan Kozlov 6-3 7-5, Omar Jasika 6-1 6-1 and Calvin Hemery 7-5 7-5.
In the quarter, The Swiss had a good straight sets win against Hemery (7-5 7-5). During the match, Ritschard scored 85 points vs Hemery’s 75. Alexander was pretty aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Ritschard couldn’t to score even 1 ace during the match and he committed only 3 double faults. Alexander Ritschard lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ritschard put 67% of his first serves in, winning 66% (37/56) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (18/28) on the 2nd serve. Ritschard broke Hemery 3 times after converting 43% of his break points (3/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Alexander hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to win 55% of the points he played.
Ritschard has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (240-160). 8-3 on clay in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Ritschard has a composed 113-63 match record in the last years on clay.
The Swiss has a compiled 20-10 win-loss record in 2024, 8-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Savannah Challenger
Dmitry Popko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 64-33 | 7-2 | 57-28 | 0-3 | 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. 234, Popko reached the semifinal after defeating Bruno Kuzuhara 6-3 6-4, Ethan Quinn 6-4 5-7 6-3 and Gijs Brouwer 7-67 6-4.
In the quarter, Dmitry had a good straight sets win against Brouwer (7-67 6-4). During the match Popko scored 80 points vs Brouwer’s 76. The Kazakhstani was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Popko scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Dmitry Popko was quite effective on serve to win 73% (30/41) of his 1st serve and 70% (23/33) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Dmitry broke Brouwer once after converting 13% of his break points (1/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Kazakhstani has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Popko’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Buenos Aires Challenger,M15 Sunrise,M15 Palm Coast,M25 Naples,M25 Recife and M25 Feira de Santana.
Dmitry has a composed 42-8 win-loss record in 2024, 37-8 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Savannah Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Ritschard | Popko |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 59 | 73 |
| Pts | 226-186 | 243-214 |
| Total Points | 412 | 457 |
| Winners | 86 | 89 |
| %Winners | 38% | 37% |
Both Ritschard and Popko played 3 matches. At the moment, Dmitry Popko lost 1 set while Alexander Ritschard hasn’t lost a set so far. Ritschard has played 1 set(s) less than Popko (6 vs 7). Therefore, Ritschard played 14 games less than Popko. Alexander scored 86 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Kazakhstani made 89 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Ritschard | Popko |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 0.3 | 2.3 |
| 1st in | 137/209 | 125/220 |
| %1st in | 66% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 86/137 | 89/125 |
| %1st pts | 63% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 50/72 | 58/95 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 61% |
Ritschard fired 1 ace (0.3 per match). Popko also managed to score 7 aces (2.3 per match). Ritschard won 63% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Popko won 71% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Ritschard | Popko |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 11 | 10 |
| Converted | 11/32 | 10/23 |
| % Converted | 34% | 43% |
| Conceded | 15 | 10 |
| Saved | 13 | 4 |
| % Saved | 87% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 6 |
Alexander broke his opponents 11 times with a 34% conversion rate. Alexander lost his serve twice and he saved 87% of the break points that he conceded. Popko broke his opponents 10 times with a 43% conversion rate. Popko conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded.
| Ritschard | |||||
| R1 Kozlov |
R2 Jasika |
1/4 Hemery |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-1 6-1 | 7-5 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 14 | 24 | 59 | |
| pts | 86-79 | 55-32 | 85-75 | 226-186 | |
| Total points | 165 | 87 | 160 | 412 | |
| Winners | 33 | 16 | 37 | 86 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 29% | 44% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 57/86 | 24/39 | 56/84 | 137/209 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 62% | 67% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 33/57 | 16/24 | 37/56 | 86/137 | |
| % 1st pts | 58% | 67% | 66% | 63% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/29 | 13/15 | 18/28 | 50/72 | |
| % 2nd pts | 66% | 87% | 64% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | |
| Converted | 3/12 | 5/13 | 3/7 | 11/32 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 38% | 43% | 34% | |
| Conceded | 10 | 1 | 4 | 15 | |
| Saved | 9/10 | 1/1 | 3/4 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 90% | 100% | 75% | 88% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Popko | |||||
| R1 Kuzuhara |
R2 Quinn |
1/4 Brouwer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-4 5-7 6-3 | 7-67 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 31 | 23 | 73 | |
| pts | 64-45 | 99-93 | 80-76 | 243-214 | |
| Total points | 109 | 192 | 156 | 457 | |
| Winners | 25 | 34 | 30 | 89 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 34% | 38% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 34/54 | 50/92 | 41/74 | 125/220 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 54% | 55% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 25/34 | 34/50 | 30/41 | 89/125 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 68% | 73% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 23/42 | 23/33 | 58/95 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 55% | 70% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 5/9 | 1/8 | 10/23 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 56% | 13% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 7 | 0 | 10 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 3/7 | 0/0 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 43% | – | 25% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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