Khumoun Sultanov and Marcello Serafini will play each other in the 1st round of the Hersonissos 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 10:00 am on CENTRE 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 Khumoun Sultanov who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Khumoun Sultanov is the pick to win this match.
Khumoun Sultanov -> 1.121
Marcello Serafini -> 5.45
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Prediction and head to head Khumoun Sultanov vs. Marcello Serafini
There is no head to head record between Khumoun Sultanov and Marcello Serafini since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Khumoun Sultanov
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8-7 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 74-23 | 55-14 | 19-6 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-24 | 28-9 | 7-5 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2022 | 35-22 | 4-3 | 25-13 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
| 2021 | 22-19 | 3-5 | 6-7 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 218, Khumoun will start his run in the Hersonissos 1 Challenger after he played his last match in the Bengaluru Challenger where he lost 7-5 6-7(5) 6-3 to Schoolkate in the 1st round on the 25th of February.
The Uzbek has a compiled 7-6 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Khumoun’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Pune Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Khumoun has an overall 298-181 record. He has a positive 171-86 record on hard.
Previously in the Hersonissos 1 Challenger
Khumoun has never competed in this tournament before.
Marcello Serafini
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-5 | 4-1 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-31 | 0-0 | 19-22 | 6-7 | 0-0 | 6-2 |
| 2023 | 33-32 | 0-2 | 30-21 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 |
| 2022 | 34-24 | 14-6 | 20-17 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-21 | 12-6 | 15-13 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 535, the Italian got to the 1st round after beating Evangelos Kypriotis 7-6(1) 6-1 and Henri Haupt 6-3 7-6(4).
In the qualifications, Serafini had a good straight sets win against Haupt (6-3 7-64). During the match Serafini scored 90 points vs Haupt’s 83. Marcello was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.
About the serving games, Serafini made 6 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Marcello Serafini lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Serafini put 62% of his first serves in, winning 71% (41/58) of the points behind his 1st serve and 31% (11/35) on the 2nd serve. The Italian broke Haupt 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Marcello started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points he played.
Marcello has a composed 3-4 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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