Saba Purtseladze and Mukund Sasikumar will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Astana Challenger for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 10:00 am on CENTER 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 Saba Purtseladze who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Saba Purtseladze is the pick to win this match.
Saba Purtseladze -> 1.36
Mukund Sasikumar -> 2.94

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Prediction and head to head Saba Purtseladze vs. Mukund Sasikumar

There is no head to head record between Saba Purtseladze and Mukund Sasikumar since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.

Saba Purtseladze

Ranked no. 265, Saba will start his run in the Astana Challenger after he played his last match in the Segovia Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Shah in the 2^nd round on the 23^rd of July.

Saba has a compiled 47-17 win-loss record in 2025, 47-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

His best result of the year was winning the title the Tbilisi Challenger where he overcame Federico Cina in the final 7-6(5) 6-4.

Talking about his overall career, Saba has an overall 202-165 record. He has a positive 173-104 record on hard.

Previously in the Astana Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the final in 2024. See his history.

Mukund Sasikumar

Ranked no. 461, the Indian got to the 1^st round after beating Shunsuke Nakagawa 6-1 6-4 and Zura Tkemaladze 6-3 7-6(2).

In the qualifications, Sasi had a good straight sets win against Tkemaladze (6-3 7-6²). During the match Kumar Mukund scored 75 points vs Tkemaladze’s 57. The Indian was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Kumar Mukund recorded 6 aces and he was extremely solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Mukund Sasikumar was quite efficient on serve to win 73% (33/45) of his 1st serve and 67% (14/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kumar Mukund broke Tkemaladze twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Indian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to conquer 57% of the points he played.

Kumar Mukund’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M25 Baotou and M15 Luan.

Sasi has a compiled 16-14 win-loss record in 2025, 10-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Astana Challenger

Sasi has never competed in this tournament before.

Tennis Scores in Astana Challenger

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• Aleksandre BakshiBakshi – Kokoro IsomuraIsomura (6-1 6-7² 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alexandr BindaBinda – Petr Bar BiryukovBar Biryukov (6-3 2-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings

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