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Alejandro Davidovich Fokina v Juan Carlos Prado Angelo

Every number combines what Alejandro Davidovich Fokina does well with what Juan Carlos Prado Angelo allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Forecast

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina wins, best of 3 63%90%: 27%–90% · best of 5: 66%
Serve points won 59.6% / 57.0% Alejandro / Juan · tour 63.8%
Strengths only, no similarity priors 63%serve 59.6% / 57.0%

Each player's serve and return strength is fitted against every opponent they were charted against, so a record built on weak opponents counts for less. At least one of them is no longer active or has too little charted in the last three seasons, so both are compared on their careers. The result is then nudged by Alejandro Davidovich Fokina's record against Juan Carlos Prado Angelo's tactical lookalikes and in their charted head-to-heads. A game-by-game Markov chain turns point odds into match odds; the 90% range covers the uncertainty in the two strengths, not the nudges. Charted matches lean toward big events, so treat this as a scouting estimate, not a betting line.

Head to head, per 100 shots

CareerAlejandroJuan
Direction choice−0.06 ±0.06
better than 42%
−0.03 ±0.13
better than 48%
Shot selection−0.04 ±0.10
better than 48%
+0.49 ±0.18
better than 92%
Execution−0.44 ±0.30
better than 47%
−1.24 ±0.54
better than 17%
Points left on the table2.43 ±0.11
lower than 70%
2.38 ±0.15
lower than 75%

Each player's career against an average tour player in the same position, adjusted for opponent strength, with a 90% margin (shots clustered by match). Points left on the table is the gap to the best-value direction for the same stroke, so lower is better. Percentiles are within each player's own tour. A side is highlighted only when the gap is larger than the margin on the difference.

Serve plan

The share of points the server wins when a first serve lands in that direction (hover a rate for its 90% interval; ± is the 90% margin). "Matchup" combines the server's rate with how this returner handles that serve. "Optimal" is the mix that wins most against this returner once they start reading a habit, at the response measured across the tour, and only within the range servers' habits actually vary. The gain over the current mix is how exploitable that mix is.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowAlejandro winsv JuanMatchupOptimal
Wide47%69%70%65.5%±8.160% ▲
Body24%59%64%59.4%±14.811% ▼
T29%66%67%57.4%±8.029%

Optimal v Juan Carlos Prado Angelo: +0.6±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +3.8 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowAlejandro winsv JuanMatchupOptimal
Wide35%62%65%52.4%±8.022% ▼
Body22%63%66%66.3%±14.022%
T43%65%69%61.7%±8.756% ▲

Optimal v Juan Carlos Prado Angelo: +0.5±0.8 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving body every time would read +6.8 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Juan Carlos Prado Angelo serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowJuan winsv AlejandroMatchupOptimal
Wide27%69%71%67.0%±9.340% ▲
Body2%65%59%60.5%±15.20% ▼
T71%64%74%63.4%±7.160% ▼

Optimal v Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: +0.3±0.8 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +2.7 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowJuan winsv AlejandroMatchupOptimal
Wide54%67%71%64.9%±7.854%
Body1%65%61%63.7%±15.514% ▲
T45%63%68%58.6%±9.132% ▼

Optimal v Alejandro Davidovich Fokina: +0.3±1.0 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +2.8 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Return plan

Value of each return, in points per 100 returns against an average return of the same serve (direction, court, surface): the tour's result with that return, the returner's own edge with it, and what this server gives up when it comes back to that side. Returns with no charted direction are left out, so values compare with each other rather than with zero. Depth isn't a choice here: missed returns have no depth. Serve quality isn't charted, so a block through the middle partly reflects the serve that forced it.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv JuanValue
FH through the middle43%+4.3+0.4+2.8+7.5±2.6
FH down the line20%+1.7−2.5+2.2+1.4±3.6
FH crosscourt15%+5.5+0.4+1.8+7.7±3.7
FH slice through the middle15%−4.2−0.3±0.0−4.6±1.4
FH slice down the line4%−4.3−0.2±0.0−4.4±2.3

Lean FH crosscourt: +4.0±3.4 per 100 returns v the current mix (1084 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv JuanValue
BH through the middle42%+6.4+2.6+3.6+12.5±2.3
BH crosscourt24%+8.8+2.0+3.4+14.2±3.2
BH slice through the middle15%−4.2−2.1+0.4−5.8±1.9
BH down the line11%+4.2−0.8+3.5+6.9±4.4
BH slice crosscourt5%+0.5−3.0±0.0−2.5±2.2

Lean BH crosscourt: +6.0±2.7 per 100 returns v the current mix (962 returns charted)

2nd serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv JuanValue
FH through the middle44%−3.5−0.8±0.0−4.3±2.8
FH down the line27%−1.8+1.1+2.1+1.4±4.6
FH crosscourt25%−0.2−5.7+0.9−5.1±4.3
FH slice through the middle4%−12.7−0.9±0.0−13.6±1.2

Lean FH down the line: +4.7±3.7 per 100 returns v the current mix (220 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv JuanValue
BH through the middle42%−2.9+0.1−1.0−3.8±2.3
BH crosscourt36%+1.0+0.1+1.1+2.3±2.9
BH down the line18%−0.2−3.4+0.6−3.0±4.5
BH slice through the middle2%−11.3+0.1±0.0−11.1±1.4
FH inside-out1%+1.0+0.4+2.1+3.5±2.9

Lean BH crosscourt: +3.8±2.2 per 100 returns v the current mix (669 returns charted)

Juan Carlos Prado Angelo returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AlejandroValue
FH through the middle60%+4.3+2.8+1.1+8.2±2.4
FH crosscourt24%+5.5+3.1−1.4+7.2±3.5
FH down the line16%+1.7+2.4−0.5+3.6±3.6

Lean FH through the middle: +1.0±1.4 per 100 returns v the current mix (94 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AlejandroValue
BH through the middle52%+6.4+2.8+1.6+10.8±2.2
BH crosscourt31%+8.8+3.1+0.5+12.3±3.0
BH down the line15%+4.2+3.7+0.3+8.2±4.2
BH slice through the middle3%−4.2+0.2−3.2−7.2±2.0

Lean BH crosscourt: +1.9±2.4 per 100 returns v the current mix (185 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AlejandroValue
BH through the middle38%−2.9+0.7−0.8−3.0±2.2
BH crosscourt22%+1.0−2.2−0.1−1.3±2.9
FH through the middle16%−2.9−0.4−1.1−4.4±1.9
BH down the line9%−0.2−2.2+0.2−2.2±4.5
FH inside-out8%+1.0−1.8+1.6+0.8±3.0

Lean BH crosscourt: +0.9±2.5 per 100 returns v the current mix (141 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Rally plan

Edge, in points per 100 shots: the hitter's skill with the shot (own) plus how much the receiver usually gives up against it (theirs), both measured against the tour average on hard. Each player's hard record is shrunk toward their all-surface one, so a thin sample on it moves the numbers only a little.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their backhand · return+4.5±3.9+0.1+4.4
BH to the middle · return+4.5±2.9+1.2+3.3
FH to the middle · return+2.8±3.2+0.6+2.2
FH to the middle · rally+1.4±2.8−2.4+3.8
FH to their backhand · return +1+1.0±5.0+0.3+0.7
FH to their backhand · rally+0.9±3.5−1.4+2.3

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · serve +1−5.2±4.6−6.1+1.0
FH to their backhand · serve +1−2.2±4.2−1.7−0.5
BH to their backhand · rally−1.8±2.9−1.2−0.6
FH to their forehand · return +1−1.1±4.3−2.5+1.4
BH to their backhand · return +1−0.6±4.0+0.8−1.4

Juan Carlos Prado Angelo

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to the middle · return+6.9±2.9+3.8+3.1
BH to the middle · rally+4.5±2.4+4.0+0.5
FH to the middle · serve +1+4.5±3.2+1.4+3.1
BH to their backhand · return+3.9±3.8+2.0+2.0
BH to the middle · return +1+2.4±2.5+2.1+0.3
FH to the middle · rally+2.2±2.6+2.1+0.1

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their backhand · serve +1−2.3±4.1−1.4−0.9
FH to their forehand · serve +1−1.8±4.8−1.8+0.1
FH to their backhand · rally−0.4±3.8+0.6−0.9
BH to their forehand · rally−0.1±5.1+1.6−1.7
FH to their backhand · serve +1±0.0±4.3+0.8−0.8

Against Juan Carlos Prado Angelo-like opponents

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–59.3%37.7%