Aslan Karatsev and Federico Cina will face off in the semifinal of the Hersonissos 2 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 11:00 am on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aslan Karatsev who should win in 2 sets.
Aslan Karatsev -> 1.363
Federico Cina -> 2.93
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Prediction and head to head Aslan Karatsev vs. Federico Cina
There is no head to head record between Aslan Karatsev and Federico Cina since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Aslan Karatsev
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 15-9 | 13-6 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 12-18 | 6-9 | 1-4 | 5-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 32-22 | 13-10 | 14-5 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
2022 | 18-31 | 8-9 | 5-9 | 4-10 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
2021 | 37-20 | 23-9 | 9-6 | 4-3 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 207, the Russian got to the semifinal after beating Marko Topo 6-3 6-4
, Adria Soriano Barrera 6-3 6-3 and Chris Rodesch 6-2 7-5.In the quarter, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Rodesch (6-2 7-5). During the match, Karatsev scored 72 points vs Rodesch’s 52. Karatsev was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Karatsev scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Aslan Karatsev was pretty effective on serve to win 74% (26/35) of his 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Russian broke Rodesch 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Karatsev hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points he played.
Karatsev has favorable win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 59% of his matches (288-199). 13-5 on hard in 2025. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Karatsev has an overall 143-74 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Nonthaburi 1 Challenger where he defeated Gregoire Barrere in the final 7-6(5) 7-5.
The Russian has an aggregate 13-5 win-loss record in 2025, 13-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Hersonissos 2 Challenger
Federico Cina
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 22-10 | 14-3 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2024 | 31-23 | 18-15 | 13-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 557, the Italian got to the semifinal after defeating Matthew Dellavedova 7-5 7-6(5), Khumoun Sultanov 7-6(3) 6-0 and Ergi Kirkin 7-5 6-4.
In the quarter, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Kirkin (7-5 6-4). During the match Cina scored 79 points vs Kirkin’s 68. Cina was pretty aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Cina scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 3 double faults. Federico Cina lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Cina put 61% of his first serves in, winning 69% (27/39) of the points behind his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the 2nd serve. Federico broke Kirkin 4 times after converting 33% of his break points (4/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Cina hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
Federico’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Sharm ElSheikh.
The Italian has a compiled 8-0 win-loss record in 2025, 8-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
Points | Karatsev | Cina |
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Match played | 3 | 3 |
Tot Set | 6 | 6 |
Tot Games | 57 | 66 |
Pts | 206-154 | 247-210 |
Total Points | 360 | 457 |
Winners | 80 | 92 |
%Winners | 39% | 37% |
Both Karatsev and Cina played 3 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Karatsev and Cina have played the same amount of sets 6. However, Karatsev played 9 games less than Cina. Aslan scored 80 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Federico managed to score 92 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
Serve | Karatsev | Cina |
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Aces | 7 | 4 |
Avg per match | 2.3 | 1.3 |
1st in | 104/178 | 137/221 |
%1st in | 58% | 62% |
1st pts | 80/104 | 92/137 |
%1st pts | 77% | 67% |
2nd pts | 38/74 | 46/84 |
%2nd pts | 51% | 55% |
Karatsev bagged 7 aces (2.3 per match). Cina bagged 4 aces (1.3 per match). Karatsev won 77% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 51% of the points. On the other side, Cina won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
Breaks | Karatsev | Cina |
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Won | 12 | 12 |
Converted | 12/25 | 12/26 |
% Converted | 48% | 46% |
Conceded | 9 | 16 |
Saved | 5 | 10 |
% Saved | 56% | 63% |
Times Broken | 4 | 6 |
Karatsev broke his opponents 12 times with a 48% conversion rate. Aslan dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded. Cina broke his opponents 12 times with a 46% conversion rate. The Italian conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.
Karatsev | |||||
R1 Topo | R2 Soriano | 1/4 Rodesch | Total | ||
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Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-3 6-3 | 6-2 7-5 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 19 | 18 | 20 | 57 | |
pts | 67-53 | 67-49 | 72-52 | 206-154 | |
Total points | 120 | 116 | 124 | 360 | |
Winners | 29 | 25 | 26 | 80 | |
%Winners | 43% | 37% | 36% | 39% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
Double Faults | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | |
1st in | 36/60 | 33/58 | 35/60 | 104/178 | |
% 1st in | 60% | 57% | 58% | 58% | |
1st pts | 29/36 | 25/33 | 26/35 | 80/104 | |
% 1st pts | 81% | 76% | 74% | 77% | |
2nd pts | 14/24 | 11/25 | 13/25 | 38/74 | |
% 2nd pts | 58% | 44% | 52% | 51% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | |
Converted | 2/6 | 5/8 | 5/11 | 12/25 | |
Converted % | 33% | 63% | 45% | 48% | |
Conceded | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
Saved | 0/0 | 2/4 | 3/5 | 5 | |
Saved % | – | 50% | 60% | 37% | |
Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Cina | |||||
R1 Dellavedova | R2 Sultanov | 1/4 Kirkin | Total | ||
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Score | 7-5 7-65 | 7-63 6-0 | 7-5 6-4 | ||
Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Tot Games | 25 | 19 | 22 | 66 | |
pts | 95-85 | 73-57 | 79-68 | 247-210 | |
Total points | 180 | 130 | 147 | 457 | |
Winners | 38 | 27 | 27 | 92 | |
%Winners | 40% | 37% | 34% | 37% | |
SERVE | |||||
Aces | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |
1st in | 57/87 | 41/70 | 39/64 | 137/221 | |
% 1st in | 66% | 59% | 61% | 62% | |
1st pts | 38/57 | 27/41 | 27/39 | 92/137 | |
% 1st pts | 67% | 66% | 69% | 67% | |
2nd pts | 18/30 | 13/29 | 15/25 | 46/84 | |
% 2nd pts | 60% | 45% | 60% | 55% | |
Breaks | |||||
Won | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | |
Converted | 2/7 | 6/7 | 4/12 | 12/26 | |
Converted % | 29% | 86% | 33% | 46% | |
Conceded | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | |
Saved | 4/5 | 3/6 | 3/5 | 10 | |
Saved % | 80% | 50% | 60% | 63% | |
Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Tennis Scores in Hersonissos 2 Challenger
- Stefanos Sakellaridis/Petros TsitsipasSakellaridis/Petros Tsitsipas – Jan Jermar/Oleksii KrutykhJermar/Oleksii Krutykh (4-6 7-64 10-7) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ilia Simakin/Kelsey StevensonSimakin/Kelsey Stevenson – Anthony Genov/Szymon KielanGenov/Szymon Kielan (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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