Dmitry Popko and Jay Clarke will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 5:30 pm on COURT 3. 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 -> 1.56
Jay Clarke -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Jay Clarke
This will be the 5th time that Dmitry Popko and Jay Clarke face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Popko and Clarke (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Popko won 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in the Bogota Challenger back in August 2024.
Dmitry Popko
64 - 32win/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. 175, Dmitry will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in the Charlottesville Challenger where he lost 5-7 6-1 7-6(1) to Opelka in the 1st round on the 28th of October.
Popko has an aggregate 64-32 win-loss record in 2024, 0-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the season was getting to 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 487-289 record. He has a negative 25-32 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019. See his history.
Jay Clarke
51 - 26win/loss
263
153
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 54-29 | 6-4 | 41-18 | 6-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-19 | 10-12 | 21-4 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 11-12 | 3-4 | 7-6 | 1-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-28 | 7-7 | 8-14 | 3-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 7-11 | 4-5 | 2-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 250, Clarke will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in M25 Santa Margherita Di Pula where he lost 6-7(2) 5-2 ret. to Dedura-Palomero in the 1st round on the 15th of October.
Jay has an overall 51-26 win-loss record in 2024, 3-3 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS)
.Clarke’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M25 Hammamet,M15 Rovinj,M25 Santa Margherita di Pula,M25 Kiseljak and M25 Bali.
In terms of his career, The Brit has an overall 290-210 record. He has a negative 27-29 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Clarke has never competed in this tournament before.
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis KudlaKudla – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-2) – H2H and prediction
- Karue SellSell – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Blaz RolaRola (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Andres UrreaUrrea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Dmitry PopkoPopko (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Adam WaltonWalton – Brandon HoltHolt (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andre IlaganIlagan – Jose GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan DostanicDostanic – Govind NandaNanda (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Micah BraswellBraswell – (0-0) – H2H and prediction