H2H, prediction of Aleksandar Kovacevic vs Emilio Nava in Stanford Challenger with odds, preview, pick | 17th August 2023

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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Emilio Nava

Aleksandar Kovacevic and Emilio Nava will square off in the quarter of the Stanford Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 3 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.49
Emilio Nava -> 2.53

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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Emilio Nava

This will be the 4th time that Aleksandar Kovacevic and Emilio Nava fight against each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Kovacevic (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Kovacevic won 7-6(7) 6-2 in the 1st round in the Las Vegas Challenger back in 2022.

Aleksandar Kovacevic

Aleksandar Kovacevic
Aleksandar Kovacevic

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
97
High
72
LWLLWLLWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 28-34 19-16 5-8 2-6 2-4 0-0
2023 43-27 34-15 0-5 7-2 2-5 0-0
2022 41-31 22-18 4-4 15-9 0-0 0-0
2021 20-17 11-10 2-3 7-4 0-0 0-0
2020 5-5 1-1 0-0 4-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 128, the American got to the quarter after defeating Denis Kudla 6-3 6-2 and Adrian Andreev 7-5 6-3.

In the 2nd round, Aleksandar had a good straight sets win against Andreev (7-5 6-3). During the match, Kovacevic scored 70 points vs Andreev’s 60. Aleksandar was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Regarding the service games, Kovacevic fired 13 aces and he committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 87% (26/30) of his 1st serve and 54% (21/39) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kovacevic broke Andreev 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kovacevic hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points he played.

Kovacevic has a winning win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 56% of his matches (134-107). 18-10 on hard in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kovacevic has an overall81-63 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

His best result of the current year was conquering the title the Cleveland Challenger where he overcame Yibing Wu in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(2) and the Waco Challenger where he overcame Alexandre Muller in the final 6-3 4-6 6-2.

Aleksandar has a composed 25-20 win-loss record in 2023, 18-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Stanford Challenger

Kovacevic has never competed in this tournament before.

Kovacevic
Stanford Challenger
Kovacevic's Record

Emilio Nava

Emilio Nava
Emilio Nava

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
214
High
124
LWLWWWLLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 34-34 16-15 8-9 8-5 2-5 0-0
2023 40-31 24-14 12-8 4-9 0-0 0-0
2022 41-27 15-15 14-6 12-6 0-0 0-0
2021 40-16 9-6 27-7 4-3 0-0 0-0
2020 17-12 10-7 7-5 0-0 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 187, the American reached the quarter after defeating Calum Puttergill 6-1 6-3, Evan Burnett 6-1 6-1, Ethan Quinn 6-1 6-2 and Federico Gaio 6-4 6-4.

In the 2nd round, Emilio had a good straight sets win against Gaio (6-4 6-4). During the match Nava scored 60 points vs Gaio’s 46. Nava was very aggressive to blast 33 winners.

About the serving games, Nava fired 5 aces and he was exceptionally consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Emilio Nava was pretty effective on serve to win 85% (33/39) of his 1st serve and 70% (7/10) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Gaio twice after converting 67% of his break points (2/3).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Emilio started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to win 62% of the points he played.

His best result of the current season was winning the title the Modena Challenger where he overcame Titouan Droguet in the final 6-7(5) 7-6(6) 6-4.

Nava has an aggregate 26-21 win-loss record in 2023, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Nava
Stanford Challenger
Nava's Record
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H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

A.Kovacevic
E.Nava
2h:53
2h:53
Time on court​
4h:05
4h:05
1h:38
1h:38
Last match​
1h:03
1h:03
2
2
Match played
!
4
4
38
38
Games Played​
65
65
4
4
Set played​​
8
8
128
128
Total points​
238
238
64
64
Avg point​
59.5
59.5
53
53
Winners
100
100
26.5
26.5
Avg Winners​
25
25
41%
41%
Ratio winners
42%
42%
-- Serve --
29
29
Aces
22
22
!
14.5
14.5
Avg Aces
5.5
5.5
7
7
Double Faults
4
4
3.5
3.5
Avg Double Faults
1
1
53/64
53/64
1st won total​
100/124
100/124
!
83%
83%
1st won %
!
81%
81%
33/61
33/61
2nd won total​
39/57
39/57
54%
54%
2nd won %
!
68%
68%
-- Break Points --
6/8
6/8
BP won
15/24
15/24
3/4
3/4
Avg BP won
3.8/6
3.8/6
!
75%
75%
Won
!
63%
63%
7
7
Conceded
3
3
3.5
3.5
Avg Conceded
0.8
0.8
1
1
Broken
0
0
!
0.5
0.5
Avg Broken
!
0
0
6
6
Saved
3
3

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Kovacevic Nava
Match played 2 4
Tot Set 4 8
Tot Games 38 65
Pts 128-104 238-147
Total Points 232 385
Winners 53 100
%Winners 41% 42%

Kovacevic played 2 matches while Nava competed in 4 matches. Nava started his run from the qualifications while Kovacevic had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Kovacevic has played 4 set(s) less than Nava (4 vs 8). Therefore, Kovacevic played 27 games less than Nava. Kovacevic scored 53 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, The American recorded 100 winners (42%).

Serve Performance

Serve Kovacevic Nava
Aces 29 22
Avg per match 14.5 5.5
1st in 64/125 124/181
%1st in 51% 69%
1st pts 53/64 100/124
%1st pts 83% 81%
2nd pts 33/61 39/57
%2nd pts 54% 68%

Kovacevic scored 29 aces (14.5 per match). Nava bagged 22 aces (5.5 per match). Kovacevic won 83% points behind his first serve. He quite strong on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Nava 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 Kovacevic Nava
Won 6 15
Converted 6/8 15/24
% Converted 75% 63%
Conceded 7 3
Saved 6 3
% Saved 86% 100%
Times Broken 1 0

Aleksandar broke his opponents 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Aleksandar surrendered his serve once and he saved 86% of the break points that he conceded. Emilio broke his opponents 15 times with a 63% conversion rate. The American was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.

Kovacevic
R1
Kudla
R2
Andreev
Total
Score 6-3 6-2 7-5 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 17 21 38
pts 58-44 70-60 128-104
Total points 102 130 232
Winners 27 26 53
%Winners 47% 37% 41%
SERVE
Aces 16 13 29
Double Faults 2 5 7
1st in 34/56 30/69 64/125
% 1st in 61% 43% 51%
1st pts 27/34 26/30 53/64
% 1st pts 79% 87% 83%
2nd pts 12/22 21/39 33/61
% 2nd pts 55% 54% 54%
Breaks
Won 3 3 6
Converted 3/4 3/4 6/8
Converted % 75% 75% 75%
Conceded 4 3 7
Saved 4/4 2/3 6
Saved % 100% 67% 84%
Times Broken 0 1 1
Nava
Q1
Puttergill
Q3
Burnett
R1
Quinn
R2
Gaio
Total
Score 6-1 6-3 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-2 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 2 8
Tot Games 16 14 15 20 65
pts 66-46 59-27 53-28 60-46 238-147
Total points 112 86 81 106 385
Winners 20 20 27 33 100
%Winners 30% 34% 51% 55% 42%
SERVE
Aces 7 5 5 5 22
Double Faults 3 1 0 0 4
1st in 25/45 28/46 32/41 39/49 124/181
% 1st in 56% 61% 78% 80% 69%
1st pts 20/25 20/28 27/32 33/39 100/124
% 1st pts 80% 71% 84% 85% 81%
2nd pts 13/20 13/18 6/9 7/10 39/57
% 2nd pts 65% 72% 67% 70% 68%
Breaks
Won 4 5 4 2 15
Converted 4/8 5/6 4/7 2/3 15/24
Converted % 50% 83% 57% 67% 63%
Conceded 2 1 0 0 3
Saved 2/2 1/1 0/0 0/0 3
Saved % 100% 100% 100%
Times Broken 0 0 0 0 0

Head 2 Head

Win Loss
Kovacevic
LWLLWLLWLL
Nava
LWLWWWLLWL
2024 2023 2022
28 - 34
34 - 34
19-16
Hard
16-15
2-6
I Hard
8-5
5-8
Clay
8-9
2-4
Grass
2-5
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