Francisco Cerundolo and Alexander Shevchenko will play each other in the quarter of the Almaty Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francisco Cerundolo who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Francisco Cerundolo is the pick to win this match.
Francisco Cerundolo -> 1.68
Alexander Shevchenko -> 2.19

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Prediction and head to head Francisco Cerundolo vs. Alexander Shevchenko

This will be the 3rd time that Francisco Cerundolo and Alexander Shevchenko face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Cerundolo and Shevchenko (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they played, Shevchenko won 7-6(7) 7-5 in the 2nd round in Shanghai back in October 2024.

Francisco Cerundolo

Francisco Cerundolo

30 - 27win/loss

Hard
5-10
I Hard
4-1
Clay
21-13
Grass
0-3
Rank
31
High
19
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 30-27 5-10 21-13 4-1 0-3 0-0
2023 39-26 10-10 19-12 4-2 6-2 0-0
2022 36-28 7-8 25-10 3-7 1-3 0-0
2021 44-24 3-2 39-21 0-0 2-1 0-0
2020 36-11 5-0 31-11 0-0 0-0 0-0
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Ranked no. 31, Francisco reached the quarter after defeating Justin Engel 6-4 7-6(3).

In the 2nd round, Cerundolo had a good straight sets win against Engel (6-4 7-63). During the match, Cerundolo scored 72 points vs Engel’s 63. The Argentine was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Cerundolo managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Francisco Cerundolo was pretty efficient on serve to win 81% (29/36) of his 1st serve and 65% (17/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Cerundolo broke Engel twice after converting 50% of his break points (2/4).

Cerundolo has a solid match record in the last 9 years having won 65% of his matches (308-163). 4-1 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Cerundolo has a compiled11-11 win-loss record in the last 9 years on indoor hard courts.

His best result of the year was winning the title in Umag where he beat Lorenzo Musetti in the final 2-6 6-4 7-6(5).

Francisco has an aggregate 30-27 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Almaty

Almaty
Cerundolo's Record

Alexander Shevchenko

Alexander Shevchenko

22 - 32win/loss

Hard
8-13
I Hard
7-4
Clay
6-12
Grass
1-3
Rank
61
High
45
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 22-32 8-13 6-12 7-4 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
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Ranked no. 61, Shevchenko got to the quarter after defeating Mikhail Kukushkin 7-6(5) 7-6(4) and Aslan Karatsev 6-1 6-7(5) 7-5.

In the 2nd round, The Kazakhstani defeated Karatsev (6-1 6-75 7-5). During the match Shevchenko scored 97 points vs Karatsev’s 85. Shevchenko was pretty aggressive to blast 47 winners.

Talking about serving, Shevchenko struck 7 aces and he was quite steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Alexander Shevchenko was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (47/60) of his 1st serve and 61% (20/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Kazakhstani broke Karatsev 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Alexander has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.

The Kazakhstani has an overall 22-32 win-loss record in 2024, 7-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)

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Almaty
Shevchenko's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

F.Cerundolo
A.Shevchenko
1h:29
1h:29
Time on court​
!
4h:42
4h:42
1h:29
1h:29
Last match​
!
2h:20
2h:20
1
1
Match played
!
2
2
23
23
Games Played​
58
58
2
2
Set played​​
5
5
72
72
Total points​
194
194
72
72
Avg point​
97
97
29
29
Winners
83
83
29
29
Avg Winners​
41.5
41.5
40%
40%
Ratio winners
43%
43%
-- Serve --
6
6
Aces
16
16
6
6
Avg Aces
8
8
2
2
Double Faults
1
1
2
2
Avg Double Faults
0.5
0.5
29/36
29/36
1st won total​
83/108
83/108
!
81%
81%
1st won %
!
77%
77%
17/26
17/26
2nd won total​
35/60
35/60
!
65%
65%
2nd won %
58%
58%
-- Break Points --
2/4
2/4
BP won
6/17
6/17
2/4
2/4
Avg BP won
3/8.5
3/8.5
50%
50%
Won
35%
35%
1
1
Conceded
6
6
1
1
Avg Conceded
3
3
1
1
Broken
3
3
1
1
Avg Broken
1.5
1.5
0
0
Saved
3
3
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Cerundolo Shevchenko
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 2 5
Tot Games 23 58
Pts 72-63 194-175
Total Points 135 369
Winners 29 83
%Winners 40% 43%

Cerundolo played 1 match while Shevchenko competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Alexander Shevchenko conceded 1 set while Francisco Cerundolo hasn’t conceded a set so far. Cerundolo has played 3 set(s) less than Shevchenko (2 vs 5). Therefore, Cerundolo played 35 games less than Shevchenko. Francisco scored 29 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Shevchenko recorded 83 winners (43%).

Serve Performance

Serve Cerundolo Shevchenko
Aces 6 16
Avg per match 6 8
1st in 36/62 108/168
%1st in 58% 64%
1st pts 29/36 83/108
%1st pts 81% 77%
2nd pts 17/26 35/60
%2nd pts 65% 58%

Cerundolo fired 6 aces . Shevchenko struck 16 aces (8 per match). Cerundolo won 81% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Shevchenko won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Cerundolo Shevchenko
Won 2 6
Converted 2/4 6/17
% Converted 50% 35%
Conceded 1 6
Saved 0 3
% Saved 0% 50%
Times Broken 1 3

Francisco broke his opponent twice with a 50% conversion rate. Francisco dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. The Kazakhstani broke his opponents 6 times with a 35% conversion rate. Shevchenko conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Cerundolo
R2
Engel		 Total
Score 6-4 7-63
Tot Set 2 2
Tot Games 23 23
pts 72-63 72-63
Total points 135 135
Winners 29 29
%Winners 40% 40%
SERVE
Aces 6 6
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 36/62 36/62
% 1st in 58% 58%
1st pts 29/36 29/36
% 1st pts 81% 81%
2nd pts 17/26 17/26
% 2nd pts 65% 65%
Breaks
Won 2 2
Converted 2/4 2/4
Converted % 50% 50%
Conceded 1 1
Saved 0/1 0
Saved % 0% 0%
Times Broken 1 1
Shevchenko
R1
Kukushkin		 R2
Karatsev		 Total
Score 7-65 7-64 6-1 6-75 7-5
Tot Set 2 3 5
Tot Games 26 32 58
pts 97-90 97-85 194-175
Total points 187 182 369
Winners 36 47 83
%Winners 37% 48% 43%
SERVE
Aces 9 7 16
Double Faults 1 0 1
1st in 48/75 60/93 108/168
% 1st in 64% 65% 64%
1st pts 36/48 47/60 83/108
% 1st pts 75% 78% 77%
2nd pts 15/27 20/33 35/60
% 2nd pts 56% 61% 58%
Breaks
Won 2 4 6
Converted 2/10 4/7 6/17
Converted % 20% 57% 35%
Conceded 4 2 6
Saved 2/4 1/2 3
Saved % 50% 50% 100%
Times Broken 2 1 3

Tennis Scores in Almaty

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