Karen Khachanov and Otto Virtanen will square off in the 2nd round of the Almaty Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTER COURT. 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 Karen Khachanov who should win in 2 sets.
Karen Khachanov -> 1.44
Otto Virtanen -> 2.79
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Prediction and head to head Karen Khachanov vs. Otto Virtanen
There is no head to head record between Karen Khachanov and Otto Virtanen since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Karen Khachanov
25 - 20win/loss
26
8
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-20 | 14-12 | 8-4 | 2-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-18 | 18-10 | 10-5 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-25 | 17-11 | 9-7 | 6-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-24 | 17-9 | 5-6 | 8-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-15 | 12-6 | 4-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 26, Khachanov will start his run in Almaty after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-4 6-3 to Giron
in the 2nd round on the 7th of October.Khachanov has an overall 25-20 win-loss record in 2024, 2-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the year was conquering the title in Doha where he defeated Jakub Mensik in the final 7-6(12) 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Khachanov has an overall 405-270 record. He has a positive 113-77 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Almaty
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2022. See his history.
Otto Virtanen
36 - 25win/loss
116
109
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 36-25 | 9-11 | 5-7 | 17-4 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 33-31 | 4-6 | 4-10 | 22-11 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-31 | 4-1 | 7-12 | 25-13 | 8-3 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 40-21 | 2-2 | 16-11 | 19-6 | 0-0 | 3-2 |
| 2020 | 24-9 | 2-2 | 1-2 | 21-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 116, Virtanen reached the 2nd round after defeating Fabio Fognini 6-3 7-6(4).
In the 1st round, Otto had a good straight sets win against Fognini (6-3 7-64). During the match Virtanen scored 74 points vs Fognini’s 57. Virtanen was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Virtanen struck 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Otto Virtanen was quite efficient on serve to win 81% (25/31) of his 1st serve and 70% (21/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Virtanen broke Fognini twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Pau Challenger where he overcame Leandro Riedi in the final 7-5 7-5 and the Lugano Challenger where he beat Daniel Masur in the final 6-7(4) 6-4 7-6(3).
Otto has an aggregate 36-25 win-loss record in 2024, 17-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Almaty
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Borna CoricCoric (7-61 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Maximilian MartererMarterer (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Justin EngelEngel (6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Aslan KaratsevKaratsev – Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Otto VirtanenVirtanen (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Frances TiafoeTiafoe – Daniel EvansEvans (5-4) – H2H and prediction
- Beibit ZhukayevZhukayev – Tomas MachacMachac (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Gabriel DialloDiallo – Alejandro TabiloTabilo (0-0) – H2H and prediction