Aleksandar Kovacevic destroys Branko Djuric 6-2 6-2 in the 1st round in Belgrade on Monday after playing a fantastic match to clash against Hamad Medjedovic in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 2 minutes.
Kovacevic added to his prize money € 5,125 after winning this match. He has already won € 13,165 after this win. If he wins the next match, Aleksandar will add € 9,505 to his earnings to get in total € 22,670 in total.
Highlights Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Branko Djuric Belgrade Open – Belgrade
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the American scored 57 points vs. Djuric’s 34.
Kovacevic
Aleksandar served very well to win 85% of the points (22/26) behind his first serve, and he won 83% points (10/12) on his second serve. Kovacevic blasted 11 aces and he committed 1 double fault. Kovacevic was pretty focused in converting 57% of the break points that he procured (4/7).
Djuric
On the other side, Branko wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Kovacevic and Djuric is 1-0 for Aleksandar.
Draw and next match H2H: Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Hamad Medjedovic – stats
Kovacevic will fight against Medjedovic in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Aleksandar Kovacevic and Hamad Medjedovic clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Medjedovic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Medjedovic won 4-6 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Madrid back in April 2024.
Live score progression and stats
Aleksandar in this set was in much better shape than Djuric and without too much hustling he won 6-2 after breaking Djuric in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Djuric was dominated in the last 6 games of the set when the game count went from 1-2 to 6-2.
Kovacevic converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Kovacevic didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 46 points. Kovacevic was the winner of the set after clinching 12 points more than Branko (29-17). The American was perfect on serve to concede only 1 point during his serving games (16-1). In addition, on the other side, the Serbian conceded 13 points on serve (16-13).
Kovacevic in this set was in much better shape than the Serbian and finally he won 6-2 after breaking Djuric in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
A crucial moment of this set was when the American won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the game count from 1-1 to 5-1.
Kovacevic converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40) and the 5th game (3-1 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the American didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 45 points. Kovacevic was the winner of the set after clinching 11 more points than the Serbian (28-17). Kovacevic surrendered 5 points on serve (16-5). On the other side, Djuric conceded 12 points on serve (12-12).
Tennis Scores in Belgrade
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Branko DjuricDjuric (6-2 6-2)
- Dusan LajovicLajovic – Mariano NavoneNavone (6-0 7-63)
- Marin CilicCilic – Alexandre MullerMuller (7-62 6-3)
- Lukas KleinKlein – James DuckworthDuckworth (6-4 6-2)
- Daniel AltmaierAltmaier – Luciano DarderiDarderi (7-61 6-3)
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-1 6-1)
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Pavel KotovKotov (6-3 6-4)
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Juncheng ShangShang (2-6 7-65 7-5)
- Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic – Brandon NakashimaNakashima (3-6 7-5 6-3)
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