Dmitry Popko and Yanki Erel will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Bratislava 1 Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on COURT 9. 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 Dmitry Popko who should win in 2 sets.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.38
Yanki Erel -> 2.89
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Yanki Erel
This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Yanki Erel fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Popko (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Popko won 7-6(6) 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Sultan Challenger back in 2022.
Dmitry Popko
49 - 15win/loss
174
162
| 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. 231, Popko will start his run in the Bratislava 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Zagreb Challenger where he lost 7-5 4-6 6-4
to Dodig in the quarter on the 7th of June.The Kazakhstani has a compiled 49-15 win-loss record in 2024, 44-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Dmitry’s best result of the 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.
Talking about his overall career, Popko has an overall 472-272 record. He has a positive 310-157 record on clay.
Previously in the Bratislava 1 Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2022. See his history.
Yanki Erel
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-26 | 19-18 | 4-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-25 | 44-18 | 1-4 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-21 | 27-14 | 3-4 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 45-19 | 20-7 | 11-11 | 14-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 393, Erel reached the 1st round after beating Oleksii Krutykh 6-3 7-66 and Lukas Pokorny 7-65 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Pokorny (7-65 6-2). During the match Erel scored 84 points vs Pokorny’s 75. The Turk was very aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Erel bagged 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Yanki Erel lost the serve once and he saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Erel put 71% of his first serves in, winning 64% (39/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the 2nd serve. Yanki broke Pokorny 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Turk started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 52% of the points he played.
Yanki’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Doha.
Yanki has a compiled 19-14 win-loss record in 2024, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Bratislava 1 Challenger
- Norbert GombosGombos – Gerard Campana LeeCampana Lee (6-2 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Henrique RochaRocha – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-2 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martin LandaluceLandaluce – Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luka MikrutMikrut – Jaime FariaFaria (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas NeumayerNeumayer – Illya MarchenkoMarchenko (4-6 7-65 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro CachinCachin – Jiri VeselyVesely (6-3 6-73 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marco TrungellitiMarco – Ivan GakhovIvan (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Matej DodigMatej – Radu AlbotRadu (4-6 7-6(5) 7-5) – See score progression
- Martin KlizanMartin – Dalibor SvrcinaDalibor (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pedro CachinCachin – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak – Ergi KirkinKirkin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zsombor PirosPiros – Alexey ZakharovZakharov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yanki ErelErel – Dmitry PopkoPopko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sebastian GimaGima – Jozef KovalikKovalik (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Martin KrumichKrumich – Vitaliy SachkoSachko (0-0) – H2H and prediction