Dmitry Popko and Nicolas Kicker will face off in the 1st round of the Buenos Aires Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 1:00 pm on CANCHA 8. 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.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.41
Nicolas Kicker -> 2.73
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Nicolas Kicker
This will be the 2nd time that Dmitry Popko and Nicolas Kicker fight against each other. 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 3-6 6-4 6-2 in the quarter in the Poznan Challenger back in 2021.
Dmitry Popko
62 - 28win/loss
176
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. 177, Popko will start his run in the Buenos Aires Challenger after he played his last match in the Bad Waltersdorf Challenger where he lost 7-6(5) 2-6 6-2
to Seyboth in the 1st round on the 17th of September.Dmitry has an aggregate 61-28 win-loss record in 2024, 56-27 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Popko’s best result of the season 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, The Kazakhstani has an overall 484-285 record. He has a positive 322-169 record on clay.
Previously in the Buenos Aires Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See his history.
Nicolas Kicker
8 - 8win/loss
833
78
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-10 | 0-2 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-10 | 1-1 | 10-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-28 | 6-6 | 20-21 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 64-21 | 17-2 | 47-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 690, Kicker reached the 1st round after defeating Hernan Casanova 1-6 6-1 6-3 and Franco Roncadelli 6-2 1-6 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kicker defeated Roncadelli (6-2 1-6 6-2). During the match Kicker scored 76 points vs Roncadelli’s 58. Nicolas was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Kicker scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Nicolas Kicker lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kicker put 51% of his first serves in, winning 78% (25/32) of the points behind his 1st serve and 42% (13/31) on the 2nd serve. Kicker broke Roncadelli 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Argentine started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Nicolas’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in M15 Asuncion.
Nicolas has an aggregate 8-7 win-loss record in 2024, 8-4 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Buenos Aires Challenger
- Federico CoriaCoria – Alvaro Guillen MezaGuillen Meza (5-7 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Camilo Ugo CarabelliUgo Carabelli – Santiago Rodriguez TavernaRodriguez Taverna (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Bautista TorresBautista Torres – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Nicolas KickerKicker (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hady HabibHabib – Hugo DellienDellien (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues AlvesMeligeni Rodrigues Alves – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Conner Huertas Del PinoHuertas Del Pino – (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri – Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo – Federico Agustin GomezAgustin Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jesper De JongDe Jong – Facundo MenaMena (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Tomas FarjatFarjat – Andrea CollariniCollarini (0-2) – H2H and prediction