Illya Marchenko and Evgeny Donskoy will play each other in the 2^nd round of the Taipei Challenger for the 7^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 1. 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 Illya Marchenko who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Illya Marchenko is the pick to win this match.
Illya Marchenko -> 1.51
Evgeny Donskoy -> 2.45

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Prediction and head to head Illya Marchenko vs. Evgeny Donskoy

This will be the 7^th time that Illya Marchenko and Evgeny Donskoy face off. The head to head is 5-1 for Marchenko (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Marchenko won 7-5 7-5 in the 2^nd round in the Salinas Challenger back in 2023.

Illya Marchenko

Ranked no. 242, Illya got to the 2^nd round after defeating Hiroki Moriya 6-3 7-6⁴.

In the 1^st round, Marchenko had a good straight sets win against Moriya (6-3 7-6⁴). During the match, Marchenko scored 77 points vs Moriya’s 63. Marchenko was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Regarding the service games, Marchenko bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Illya Marchenko lost the serve twice and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Marchenko put 56% of his first serves in, winning 60% (25/42) of the points behind his 1st serve and 70% (23/33) on the 2nd serve. Marchenko broke Moriya 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).

Marchenko has good win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 56% of his matches (264-210). 3-8 on hard in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Marchenko has a compiled 95-83 match record in the last years on hard.

Marchenko has a composed 5-12 win-loss record in 2024, 3-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Taipei Challenger

Evgeny Donskoy

Ranked no. 353, Evgeny got to the 2^nd round after beating Omar Jasika 6-4 7-6⁸.

In the 1^st round, Donskoy had a good straight sets win against Jasika (6-4 7-6⁸). During the match Donskoy scored 76 points vs Jasika’s 65. Evgeny was quite aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Talking about serving, Donskoy couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Evgeny Donskoy was extremely effective on serve to win 78% (38/49) of his 1st serve and 80% (16/20) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Jasika once after converting 33% of his break points (1/3).

Evgeny’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 New Delhi.

Evgeny has an aggregate 10-11 win-loss record in 2024, 10-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Marchenko	Donskoy
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	23
Pts	77-63	76-65
Total Points	140	141
Winners	25	38
%Winners	32%	50%

Both Marchenko and Donskoy played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Marchenko and Donskoy have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Marchenko played 1 game less than Donskoy. The Ukrainian scored 25 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian blasted 38 winners (50%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Marchenko	Donskoy
Aces	4	0
Avg per match	4	0
1st in	42/75	49/69
%1st in	56%	71%
1st pts	25/42	38/49
%1st pts	60%	78%
2nd pts	23/33	16/20
%2nd pts	70%	80%

Marchenko managed to score 4 aces . Donskoy didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Marchenko won 60% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Donskoy won 78% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 80% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Marchenko	Donskoy
Won	4	1
Converted	4/6	1/3
% Converted	67%	33%
Conceded	8	1
Saved	6	1
% Saved	75%	100%
Times Broken	2	0

Illya broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Ukrainian dropped his serve twice and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Evgeny broke his opponent once with a 33% conversion rate. Evgeny was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.

Marchenko
	R1 Moriya	Total
Score	6-3 7-64
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	22	22
pts	77-63	77-63
Total points	140	140
Winners	25	25
%Winners	32%	32%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	42/75	42/75
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	25/42	25/42
% 1st pts	60%	60%
2nd pts	23/33	23/33
% 2nd pts	70%	70%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	8	8
Saved	6/8	6
Saved %	75%	75%
Times Broken	2	2

Donskoy
	R1 Jasika	Total
Score	6-4 7-68
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	76-65	76-65
Total points	141	141
Winners	38	38
%Winners	50%	50%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	49/69	49/69
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	38/49	38/49
% 1st pts	78%	78%
2nd pts	16/20	16/20
% 2nd pts	80%	80%
Breaks
Won	1	1
Converted	1/3	1/3
Converted %	33%	33%
Conceded	1	1
Saved	1/1	1
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Tennis Scores in Taipei Challenger

• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6⁸) – See score progression
• Arthur FeryFery – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Li TuTu – Philip SekulicSekulic (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Adam WaltonWalton – Yuta ShimizuShimizu (7-6⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7³ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Yunseong ChungChung (6-4 7-6⁰) – See score progression
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – Bang Shuo YinShuo Yin (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Blake EllisEllis – Tsung-Hao HuangHuang (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• James DuckworthDuckworth – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Moez EcharguiEchargui (7-6⁷ 6-2) – See score progression
• Max PurcellPurcell – James Kent TrotterKent Trotter (6-7(3) 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Remy BertolaBertola – Ray HoHo (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (6-3 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Omar JasikaJasika (6-4 7-6(8)) – See score progression
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Alafia AyeniAyeni (7-6(2) 6-3) – See score progression
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – James McCabeMcCabe (6-1 4-6 7-6(4)) – See score progression
• Ricardas BerankisBerankis – Brandon HoltHolt (6-1 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Illya MarchenkoMarchenko – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (5-1) – H2H and prediction
• Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Richard BerankisBerankis (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ji Sung NamSung Nam – Adam WaltonWalton (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Li TuTu – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan – James DuckworthDuckworth (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Max PurcellPurcell – Remy BertolaBertola (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Blake EllisEllis – Seong Chan HongChan Hong (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Yu Hsiou HsuHsiou Hsu – Rio NoguchiNoguchi (0-2) – H2H and prediction