Arda Azkara and Evgeny Philippov will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Astana Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Monday at 11:30 am on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Arda Azkara who should win in 3 sets.
Arda Azkara -> 1.44
Evgeny Philippov -> 2.62
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Prediction and head to head Arda Azkara vs. Evgeny Philippov
There is no head to head record between Arda Azkara and Evgeny Philippov since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Arda Azkara
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28-11 | 24-8 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-10 | 12-9 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-6 | 4-3 | 2-1 | 6-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 2-9 | 0-0 | 2-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 571 (career-high), the Turk got to the qualifications after beating Islam Orynbasar 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Azkara had a good straight sets win against Orynbasar (6-3 6-2). During the match, Azkara scored 62 points vs Orynbasar’s 40. The Turk was exceptionally aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about the service games, Azkara scored just 1 ace and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Arda Azkara was pretty effective on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 58% (15/26) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Turk broke Orynbasar 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
Azkara has a solid record in the last 4 years having won 60% of his matches (49-32). 22-5 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Azkara has a compiled38-18 record in the last 4 years on hard.
Azkara’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M15 Kayseri.
Azkara has an overall 23-6 win-loss record in 2025, 22-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Astana Challenger
Arda has never competed in this tournament before.
Evgeny Philippov
9 - 11win/loss
898
530
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-17 | 12-14 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 25-23 | 20-20 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-20 | 26-15 | 1-3 | 9-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 32-17 | 14-6 | 12-8 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 18-19 | 9-6 | 5-8 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 865, Evgeny got to the qualifications after defeating Martin Borisiouk 7-6(6) 0-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Russian defeated Borisiouk (7-66 0-6 6-3).During the match Philippov scored less points (5) than Borisiouk. In fact, the world no. 571 won 91 points vs Borisiouk’s. That means that Philippov was more focused during the important points. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 45 winners.
About the serving games, Philippov struck 5 aces and he committed only 7 double faults. Evgeny Philippov lost the serve 4 times and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Philippov put 65% of his first serves in, winning 70% (45/64) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (16/35) on the 2nd serve. Evgeny broke Borisiouk twice after converting 33% of his break points (2/6).
Philippov has a composed 9-11 win-loss record in 2025, 7-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Astana Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2023. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Azkara | Philippov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 28 |
| Pts | 62-40 | 91-96 |
| Total Points | 102 | 187 |
| Winners | 21 | 45 |
| %Winners | 34% | 49% |
Both Azkara and Philippov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Evgeny Philippov dropped 1 set while Arda Azkara hasn’t lost a set so far. Azkara has played 1 set(s) less than Philippov (2 vs 3). Therefore, Azkara played 11 games less than Philippov. Azkara scored 21 winners (34% of the total points). On the other side, Philippov scored 45 winners (49%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Azkara | Philippov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 5 |
| 1st in | 26/52 | 64/99 |
| %1st in | 50% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 45/64 |
| %1st pts | 81% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 16/35 |
| %2nd pts | 58% | 46% |
Azkara made 1 ace . Philippov also bagged 5 aces . Azkara won 81% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 58% of the points. On the other side, Philippov won 70% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Azkara | Philippov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 2 |
| Converted | 4/10 | 2/6 |
| % Converted | 40% | 33% |
| Conceded | 1 | 11 |
| Saved | 0 | 7 |
| % Saved | 0% | 64% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Arda broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. The Turk dropped his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Evgeny broke his opponent twice with a 33% conversion rate. Philippov conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 64% of the break points that he conceded.
| Azkara | |||
| Q1 Orynbasar | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 62-40 | 62-40 | |
| Total points | 102 | 102 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 26/52 | 26/52 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 50% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/26 | 15/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 58% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Philippov | |||
| Q1 Borisiouk | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-66 0-6 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 28 | 28 | |
| pts | 91-96 | 91-96 | |
| Total points | 187 | 187 | |
| Winners | 45 | 45 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 64/99 | 64/99 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 45/64 | 45/64 | |
| % 1st pts | 70% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/35 | 16/35 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/6 | 2/6 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 11 | |
| Saved | 7/11 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 64% | 64% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
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