Dmitry Popko and Facundo Mena will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Tampere Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 6:30 pm on COURT 7. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Facundo Mena who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Facundo Mena is the pick to win this match.
Facundo Mena -> 1.87
Dmitry Popko -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Facundo Mena
This will be the 3rd time that Dmitry Popko and Facundo Mena play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Popko (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they locked horns, Popko won 6-1 6-2 in the semifinal in the Prague 2 Challenger back in 2021.
Dmitry Popko
57 - 20win/loss
187
162
LLWWLWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 57-20 | 5-0 | 52-20 | 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. 187, Dmitry will start his run in the Tampere Challenger after he played his last match in Bastad where he lost 6-2 6-4 to Ajdukovic in the qualifications on the 14th of July.
The Kazakhstani has an overall 57-20 win-loss record in 2024, 52-20 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Popko’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Buenos Aires Challenger,M15 Sunrise,M15 Palm Coast,M25 Naples,M25 Recife,M25 Feira de Santana and the Brasov Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Popko has an overall 480-277 record. He has a positive 318-162 record on clay.
Previously in the Tampere Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2017 and 2021. See his history.
Facundo Mena
43 - 17win/loss
261
127
WWWWWLWLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 43-17 | 3-1 | 40-16 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-21 | 11-9 | 18-11 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 35-29 | 8-7 | 25-20 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-30 | 0-4 | 29-26 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 3-11 | 0-2 | 3-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 261, will start his run in the Tampere Challenger after he won the title in M25 Telfs after beating 6-4 6-2 Neumayer in the final.
The Argentine has a compiled 43-17 win-loss record in 2024, 40-16 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Argentine’s best result of the season was reaching the final in M15 Villa Maria,M15 Santiago,the Santa Fe Challenger,the Ibague Challenger and M25 Telfs.
Facundo won his last 5 matches.
In terms of his career, The Argentine has an overall 452-312 record. He has a positive 378-255 record on clay.
Previously in the Tampere Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2021. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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