Dmitry Popko and Daniel Milavsky will face off in the 2nd round of the Fairfield Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 12:00 pm on GROSSMAN – KENNEDY 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 Dmitry Popko who should win in 3 sets.
Dmitry Popko -> 1.53
Daniel Milavsky -> 2.39
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Prediction and head to head Dmitry Popko vs. Daniel Milavsky
There is no head to head record between Dmitry Popko and Daniel Milavsky since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Dmitry Popko
24 - 28win/loss
227
155
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-29 | 15-11 | 8-15 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 64-33 | 7-2 | 57-28 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-20 | 1-1 | 38-18 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-30 | 11-11 | 7-18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-34 | 0-4 | 27-19 | 7-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 214, Dmitry reached the 2nd round after beating Max Wiskandt 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Popko had a good straight sets win against Wiskandt (6-3 7-5). During the match, Popko scored 65 points vs Wiskandt’s 52. Dmitry was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Popko bagged 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Dmitry Popko lost the serve 3 times and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Popko put 58% of his first serves in, winning 76% (25/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (12/24) on the 2nd serve. Popko broke Wiskandt 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Popko has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 60% of his matches (389-255). 15-10 on hard in 2025. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Popko has a composed 112-70 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
His best result of the current year was winning the title the Morelia Challenger where he defeated James Duckworth in the final 1-6 6-2 6-4.
Popko has an aggregate 24-27 win-loss record in 2025, 15-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Fairfield Challenger
Daniel Milavsky
37 - 17win/loss
369
369
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44-21 | 30-14 | 1-1 | 13-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 12-3 | 3-2 | 2-1 | 7-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 8-4 | 7-4 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 435 (career-high), the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Darian King 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Daniel had a good straight sets win against King (6-3 6-1). During the match Milavsky scored 59 points vs King’s 41. Milavsky was pretty aggressive to blast 21 winners.
About the serving games, Milavsky blasted 4 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Daniel Milavsky was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 81% (21/26) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Milavsky broke King 4 times after converting 40% of his break points (4/10).
The American’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M15 Kingston,M15 Sherbrooke and Nova.
The American has an aggregate 36-17 win-loss record in 2025, 29-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Fairfield Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Popko | Milavsky |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 16 |
| Pts | 65-52 | 59-41 |
| Total Points | 117 | 100 |
| Winners | 25 | 21 |
| %Winners | 38% | 36% |
Both Popko and Milavsky played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Popko and Milavsky have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Popko played 5 games more than Milavsky. The Kazakhstani scored 25 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Milavsky bagged 21 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Popko | Milavsky |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 4 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 4 |
| 1st in | 33/57 | 26/45 |
| %1st in | 58% | 58% |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 21/26 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 13/19 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 68% |
Popko bagged 4 aces . Milavsky struck 4 aces . Popko won 76% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Milavsky won 81% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 68% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Popko | Milavsky |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/9 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 67% | 40% |
| Conceded | 7 | 2 |
| Saved | 4 | 2 |
| % Saved | 57% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
The Kazakhstani broke his opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani surrendered his serve 3 times and he saved 57% of the break points that he conceded. Daniel broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Milavsky was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 2 break points.
| Popko | |||
| R1 Wiskandt | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 65-52 | 65-52 | |
| Total points | 117 | 117 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/57 | 33/57 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/24 | 12/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/9 | 6/9 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 4/7 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 57% | 57% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Milavsky | |||
| R1 King | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-41 | 59-41 | |
| Total points | 100 | 100 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 26/45 | 26/45 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 21/26 | 21/26 | |
| % 1st pts | 81% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/19 | 13/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Tennis Scores in Fairfield Challenger
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- Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz – Micah BraswellBraswell (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Garrett JohnsJohns – Andrew FentyFenty (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dominique RollandRolland – Tyler ZinkZink (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Michael MmohMmoh – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marek GengelGengel – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz – Garrett JohnsJohns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andre IlaganIlagan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction