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.
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
30 - 27win/loss
30
19
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 35-31 | 5-10 | 21-13 | 9-5 | 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 |
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
Alexander Shevchenko
22 - 32win/loss
78
45
| 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. 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)
.H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
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
- Jakob Schnaitter/Mark WallnerSchnaitter/Mark Wallner – Francisco Cabral/Miguel-Angel Reyes-VarelaCabral/Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela (4-6 6-3 10-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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