Alexander Shevchenko and Ramkumar Ramanathan will play each other in the 1st round of the Shanghai Rolex Masters for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 5:30 pm on COURT 4. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Shevchenko who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Shevchenko is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Shevchenko -> 1.33
Ramkumar Ramanathan -> 3.32

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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Ramkumar Ramanathan

There is no head to head record between Alexander Shevchenko and Ramkumar Ramanathan since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Alexander Shevchenko

Alexander Shevchenko

18 - 31win/loss

Hard
6-12
I Hard
5-4
Clay
6-12
Grass
1-3
Rank
78
High
45
LLLWWLWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 22-35 8-13 6-12 7-7 1-3 0-0
2023 45-34 16-15 19-13 10-5 0-1 0-0
2022 50-33 2-4 41-23 7-6 0-0 0-0
2021 49-27 8-4 33-17 8-6 0-0 0-0
2020 24-8 13-4 11-4 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 56, Shevchenko will start his run in Shanghai after he played his last match in Beijing where he lost 6-4 7-5 to Moutet in the qualifications on the 24th of September.

The Kazakhstani has an aggregate 18-31 win-loss record in 2024, 6-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about his overall career, The Kazakhstani has an overall 248-167 record. He has a positive 46-40 record on hard.

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See his history.

Shanghai
Shevchenko's Record

Ramkumar Ramanathan

Ramkumar Ramanathan

21 - 20win/loss

Hard
20-18
I Hard
0-1
Grass
1-1
Rank
308
High
111
LLLWLWLWWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 23-25 22-22 0-0 0-2 1-1 0-0
2023 25-21 25-12 0-6 0-2 0-1 0-0
2022 15-34 4-13 4-8 2-6 4-6 1-1
2021 45-32 23-11 8-7 5-8 7-4 2-2
2020 8-18 3-8 0-5 0-3 0-0 5-2

Ranked no. 334, Ramkumar got to the 1st round after beating Ugo Blanchet 6-4 4-6 6-4 and Fajing Sun 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Ramkumar had a good straight sets win against Sun (6-2 6-4). During the match Ramanathan scored 60 points vs Sun’s 52. Ramkumar was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.

About the serving games, Ramanathan managed to score 16 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Ramkumar Ramanathan lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Ramanathan put 68% of his first serves in, winning 72% (31/43) of the points behind his 1st serve and 45% (9/20) on the 2nd serve. Ramkumar broke Sun 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Ramanathan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

Ramanathan’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 New Delhi and M15 Chandigarh.

Ramkumar has a composed 21-20 win-loss record in 2024, 20-18 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Shanghai

Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2018. See his history

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Shanghai
Ramanathan's Record

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