Oleksandr Ovcharenko and Alexey Zakharov will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Chennai Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexey Zakharov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Alexey Zakharov is the pick to win this match.
Alexey Zakharov -> 1.83
Oleksandr Ovcharenko -> 1.89

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Prediction and head to head Oleksandr Ovcharenko vs. Alexey Zakharov

There is no head to head record between Oleksandr Ovcharenko and Alexey Zakharov since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Oleksandr Ovcharenko

Ranked no. 311, the Ukrainian got to the 2^nd round after defeating Zsombor Piros 7-6(4) 6-4.

In the 1^st round, The Ukrainian had a good straight sets win against Piros (7-6⁴ 6-4). During the match, Ovcharenko and Piros scored the same amount of points (81). However, the world no. 311 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Ovcharenko was exceptionally aggressive to blast 38 winners.

Regarding the service games, Ovcharenko scored just 1 ace in the course of the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Oleksandr Ovcharenko lost the serve once and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Ovcharenko put 63% of his first serves in, winning 67% (38/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the 2nd serve. Oleksandr broke Piros twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Ovcharenko has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 67% of his matches (210-104). 2-1 on hard in 2025. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Ovcharenko has an aggregate42-26 record in the last 7 years on hard.

Ovcharenko has an aggregate 4-3 win-loss record in 2025, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Chennai Challenger

Oleksandr has never competed in this tournament before.

Alexey Zakharov

Ranked no. 333, the Russian got to the 2^nd

round after defeating Mukund Sasikumar 6-3 6-7(3) 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Zakharov defeated Kumar Mukund (6-3 6-7³ 6-1). During the match Zakharov scored 99 points vs Kumar Mukund’s 78. Alexey was exceptionally aggressive to blast 37 winners.

About the serving games, Zakharov fired 8 aces and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Alexey Zakharov was extremely effective on serve to win 76% (37/49) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Zakharov broke Kumar Mukund 7 times after converting 70% of his break points (7/10).

Zakharov has an overall 3-3 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Chennai Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1^st round in 2024. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Ovcharenko	Zakharov
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	23	29
Pts	81-81	99-78
Total Points	162	177
Winners	38	37
%Winners	47%	37%

Both Ovcharenko and Zakharov played 1 match. At the moment, Alexey Zakharov dropped 1 set while Oleksandr Ovcharenko hasn’t lost a set so far. Ovcharenko has played 1 set(s) less than Zakharov (2 vs 3). Therefore, Ovcharenko played 6 games less than Zakharov. Ovcharenko scored 38 winners (47% of the total points). On the other side, The Russian bagged 37 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Ovcharenko	Zakharov
Aces	1	8
Avg per match	1	8
1st in	57/90	49/80
%1st in	63%	61%
1st pts	38/57	37/49
%1st pts	67%	76%
2nd pts	18/33	16/31
%2nd pts	55%	52%

Ovcharenko recorded 1 ace . Zakharov also made 8 aces . Ovcharenko won 67% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Zakharov won 76% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Ovcharenko	Zakharov
Won	2	7
Converted	2/7	7/10
% Converted	29%	70%
Conceded	7	4
Saved	6	2
% Saved	86%	50%
Times Broken	1	2

The Ukrainian broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. Ovcharenko lost his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. The Russian broke his opponent 7 times with a 70% conversion rate. Zakharov conceded his serve twice and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.

Ovcharenko
	R1 Piros	Total
Score	7-64 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	23	23
pts	81-81	81-81
Total points	162	162
Winners	38	38
%Winners	47%	47%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	57/90	57/90
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	38/57	38/57
% 1st pts	67%	67%
2nd pts	18/33	18/33
% 2nd pts	55%	55%
Breaks
Won	2	2
Converted	2/7	2/7
Converted %	29%	29%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	6/7	6
Saved %	86%	86%
Times Broken	1	1

Zakharov
	R1 Kumar Mukund	Total
Score	6-3 6-73 6-1
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	29	29
pts	99-78	99-78
Total points	177	177
Winners	37	37
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	8	8
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	49/80	49/80
% 1st in	61%	61%
1st pts	37/49	37/49
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	16/31	16/31
% 2nd pts	52%	52%
Breaks
Won	7	7
Converted	7/10	7/10
Converted %	70%	70%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	2/4	2
Saved %	50%	50%
Times Broken	2	2

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