H2H, prediction of Dmitry Popko vs Hernan Casanova in Santos Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 8th May 2024

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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Hernan Casanova

Dmitry Popko and Hernan Casanova will square off in the 2nd round of the Santos Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on QUADRA CENTRAL. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Dmitry Popko who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Dmitry Popko is the pick to win this match.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.72
Hernan Casanova -> 2.04

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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Hernan Casanova

This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Hernan Casanova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Popko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they squared off, Popko won 6-2 4-0 ret. in the semifinal in M15 Antalya back in 2019.

Dmitry Popko

Dmitry Popko
Dmitry Popko

43 - 11win/loss

Hard
5-0
I Hard
0-0
Clay
38-11
Rank
175
High
162
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 64-32 7-2 57-28 0-2 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. 223, Dmitry got to the 2nd round after beating Guido Ivan Justo 6-0 7-5.

In the 1st round, The Kazakhstani had a good straight sets win against Ivan Justo (6-0 7-5). During the match, Popko scored 67 points vs Ivan Justo’s 48. Popko was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.

Regarding the service games, Popko blasted 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Dmitry Popko lost the serve twice and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Popko put 44% of his first serves in, winning 81% (22/27) of the points behind his 1st serve and 40% (14/35) on the 2nd serve. The Kazakhstani broke Ivan Justo 6 times after converting 75% of his break points (6/8).

Popko has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 64% of his matches (411-228). 38-10 on clay in 2024. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Popko has a composed 275-131 match record in the last years on clay.

Dmitry’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Buenos Aires Challenger,M15 Sunrise,M15 Palm Coast,M25 Naples,M25 Recife and M25 Feira de Santana.

Popko has a compiled 43-10 win-loss record in 2024, 38-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Santos Challenger

The Kazakhstani has never competed in this tournament before.

Popko
Santos Challenger
Popko's Record

Hernan Casanova

Hernan Casanova
Hernan Casanova

21 - 13win/loss

Clay
21-13
Rank
449
High
221
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 27-24 0-0 27-23 0-0 0-1 0-0
2023 29-27 0-2 29-25 0-0 0-0 0-0
2022 43-22 0-0 43-22 0-0 0-0 0-0
2021 45-32 3-3 42-28 0-1 0-0 0-0
2020 9-5 0-0 9-5 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 346, Casanova got to the 2nd round after beating Aziz Ouakaa 6-2 7-5.

In the 1st round, The Argentine had a good straight sets win against Ouakaa (6-2 7-5). During the match Casanova scored 75 points vs Ouakaa’s 60. The Argentine was very aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Talking about serving, Casanova couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Hernan Casanova lost the serve 3 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Casanova put 75% of his first serves in, winning 57% (31/54) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Casanova broke Ouakaa 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).

Hernan’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the San Miguel de Tucuman Challenger.

The Argentine has a compiled 20-13 win-loss record in 2024, 20-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Casanova
Santos Challenger
Casanova's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament

D.Popko
H.Casanova
1h:26
1h:26
Time on court​
1h:50
1h:50
1h:26
1h:26
Last match​
1h:50
1h:50
1
1
Match played
1
1
18
18
Games Played​
20
20
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
67
67
Total points​
75
75
67
67
Avg point​
75
75
22
22
Winners
31
31
22
22
Avg Winners​
31
31
33%
33%
Ratio winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
0
0
7
7
Avg Aces
0
0
4
4
Double Faults
1
1
4
4
Avg Double Faults
1
1
22/27
22/27
1st won total​
31/54
31/54
!
81%
81%
1st won %
57%
57%
14/35
14/35
2nd won total​
9/18
9/18
40%
40%
2nd won %
50%
50%
-- Break Points --
6/8
6/8
BP won
6/7
6/7
6/8
6/8
Avg BP won
6/7
6/7
!
75%
75%
Won
!
86%
86%
10
10
Conceded
10
10
10
10
Avg Conceded
10
10
2
2
Broken
3
3
2
2
Avg Broken
3
3
8
8
Saved
7
7

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Popko Casanova
Match played 1 1
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 20
Pts 67-48 75-60
Total Points 115 135
Winners 22 31
%Winners 33% 41%

Both Popko and Casanova played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Popko and Casanova have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Popko played 2 games less than Casanova. Popko scored 22 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Hernan recorded 31 winners (41%).

Serve Performance

Serve Popko Casanova
Aces 7 0
Avg per match 7 0
1st in 27/62 54/72
%1st in 44% 75%
1st pts 22/27 31/54
%1st pts 81% 57%
2nd pts 14/35 9/18
%2nd pts 40% 50%

Popko managed to score 7 aces . Casanova didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Popko won 81% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 40% of the points. On the other side, Casanova won 57% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Popko Casanova
Won 6 6
Converted 6/8 6/7
% Converted 75% 86%
Conceded 10 10
Saved 8 7
% Saved 80% 70%
Times Broken 2 3

Popko broke his opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Popko dropped his serve twice and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded. Casanova broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Hernan conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded.

Popko
R1
Ivan
Total
Score 6-0 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 18 18
pts 67-48 67-48
Total points 115 115
Winners 22 22
%Winners 33% 33%
SERVE
Aces 7 7
Double Faults 4 4
1st in 27/62 27/62
% 1st in 44% 44%
1st pts 22/27 22/27
% 1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 14/35 14/35
% 2nd pts 40% 40%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/8 6/8
Converted % 75% 75%
Conceded 10 10
Saved 8/10 8
Saved % 80% 80%
Times Broken 2 2
Casanova
R1
Ouakaa
Total
Score 6-2 7-5
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 20 20
pts 75-60 75-60
Total points 135 135
Winners 31 31
%Winners 41% 41%
SERVE
Aces 0 0
Double Faults 1 1
1st in 54/72 54/72
% 1st in 75% 75%
1st pts 31/54 31/54
% 1st pts 57% 57%
2nd pts 9/18 9/18
% 2nd pts 50% 50%
Breaks
Won 6 6
Converted 6/7 6/7
Converted % 86% 86%
Conceded 10 10
Saved 7/10 7
Saved % 70% 70%
Times Broken 3 3

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Popko
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Casanova
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2024 2023 2022
64 - 30
27 - 24
7-2
Hard
0-0
57-26
Clay
27-23

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