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.

As per the initial odds, Dmitry Popko is the pick to win this match.
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

Dmitry Popko

24 - 28win/loss

Hard
15-11
I Hard
1-1
Clay
8-15
Grass
0-1
Rank
227
High
155
LLWLWWLWLL
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

Fairfield Challenger
Popko's Record

Daniel Milavsky

Daniel Milavsky

37 - 17win/loss

Hard
30-12
I Hard
6-3
Clay
1-1
Grass
0-1
Rank
369
High
369
LWLWWWWWWL
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.

Fairfield Challenger
Milavsky's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

D.Popko
D.Milavsky
1h:21
1h:21
Time on court​
1h:07
1h:07
1h:21
1h:21
Last match​
1h:07
1h:07
1
1
Match played
1
1
21
21
Games Played​
16
16
2
2
Set played​​
2
2
65
65
Total points​
59
59
65
65
Avg point​
59
59
25
25
Winners
21
21
25
25
Avg Winners​
21
21
38%
38%
Ratio winners
36%
36%
-- Serve --
4
4
Aces
4
4
4
4
Avg Aces
4
4
1
1
Double Faults
2
2
1
1
Avg Double Faults
2
2
25/33
25/33
1st won total​
21/26
21/26
!
76%
76%
1st won %
!
81%
81%
12/24
12/24
2nd won total​
13/19
13/19
50%
50%
2nd won %
!
68%
68%
-- Break Points --
6/9
6/9
BP won
4/10
4/10
6/9
6/9
Avg BP won
4/10
4/10
!
67%
67%
Won
40%
40%
7
7
Conceded
2
2
7
7
Avg Conceded
2
2
3
3
Broken
0
0
3
3
Avg Broken
!
0
0
4
4
Saved
2
2

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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