Giuseppe La Vela and Daniil Ostapenkov will face off in the qualifications of the Shymkent 1 Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 12:30 pm on COURT 11. 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 Giuseppe La Vela who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Giuseppe La Vela is the pick to win this match.
Giuseppe La Vela -> 1.53
Daniil Ostapenkov -> 2.31
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Prediction and head to head Giuseppe La Vela vs. Daniil Ostapenkov
There is no head to head record between Giuseppe La Vela and Daniil Ostapenkov since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Giuseppe La Vela
14 - 8win/loss
553
485
WLWWLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-22 | 4-4 | 27-17 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 40-26 | 4-3 | 36-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-24 | 0-0 | 29-24 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-20 | 3-3 | 35-17 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-15 | 0-0 | 26-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 521 (career-high), the Italian got to the qualifications after beating Nikita Bilozertsev 6-1 1-6 7-6(5).
In the qualifications, Giuseppe defeated Bilozertsev (6-1 1-6 7-65). During the match, La Vela scored 87 points vs Bilozertsev’s 82. La Vela was quite aggressive to blast 39 winners.
Talking about the service games, La Vela scored just 1 ace in the match and he committed only 2 double faults. Giuseppe La Vela lost the serve 4 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, La Vela put 64% of his first serves in, winning 68% (39/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (15/32) on the 2nd serve. La Vela broke Bilozertsev 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
La Vela has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 60% of his matches (159-105). 7-2 on clay in 2026. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, La Vela has a composed142-88 record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Italian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in M25 Santa Margherita di Pula.
La Vela has a compiled 14-7 win-loss record in 2026, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Shymkent 1 Challenger
La Vela has never competed in this tournament before.
Daniil Ostapenkov
16 - 8win/loss
555
525
LWLWLLWLWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33-19 | 26-16 | 4-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 46-19 | 46-19 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-10 | 11-3 | 4-5 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-15 | 31-13 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-20 | 23-14 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 689 (career-high), the Belarussian got to the qualifications after defeating Maksim Shin 6-1 6-4.
In the qualifications, The Belarussian had a good straight sets win against Shin (6-1 6-4). During the match Ostapenkov scored 57 points vs Shin’s 39. The Belarussian was pretty aggressive to blast 14 winners.
About the serving games, Ostapenkov scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Daniil Ostapenkov was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 78% (14/18) of his 1st serve and 57% (12/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Belarussian broke Shin 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Daniil’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in M15 Hurghada.
The Belarussian has an overall 15-8 win-loss record in 2026, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
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H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | La Vela | Ostapenkov |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 17 |
| Pts | 87-82 | 57-39 |
| Total Points | 169 | 96 |
| Winners | 39 | 14 |
| %Winners | 45% | 25% |
Both La Vela and Ostapenkov played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.At the moment, Giuseppe La Vela conceded 1 set while Daniil Ostapenkov hasn’t surrendered a set so far. La Vela has played 1 set more than Ostapenkov (3 vs 2). Therefore, La Vela played 10 games more than Ostapenkov. La Vela scored 39 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Daniil recorded 14 winners (25%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | La Vela | Ostapenkov |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 57/89 | 18/39 |
| %1st in | 64% | 46% |
| 1st pts | 39/57 | 14/18 |
| %1st pts | 68% | 78% |
| 2nd pts | 15/32 | 12/21 |
| %2nd pts | 47% | 57% |
La Vela blasted 1 ace . Ostapenkov also fired 1 ace . La Vela won 68% points on his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 47% of the points. On the other side, Ostapenkov won 78% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | La Vela | Ostapenkov |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 6 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 6/10 |
| % Converted | 80% | 60% |
| Conceded | 7 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 43% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 2 |
The Italian broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Giuseppe dropped his serve 4 times and he saved 43% of the break points that he conceded. Ostapenkov broke his opponent 6 times with a 60% conversion rate. Ostapenkov conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded.
| La Vela | |||
| Q1 Bilozertsev |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 1-6 7-65 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 87-82 | 87-82 | |
| Total points | 169 | 169 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 57/89 | 57/89 | |
| % 1st in | 64% | 64% | |
| 1st pts | 39/57 | 39/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 68% | 68% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/32 | 15/32 | |
| % 2nd pts | 47% | 47% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/7 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 43% | 43% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Ostapenkov | |||
| Q1 Shin |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 57-39 | 57-39 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 14 | 14 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 25% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 18/39 | 18/39 | |
| % 1st in | 46% | 46% | |
| 1st pts | 14/18 | 14/18 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 12/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/10 | 6/10 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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