Ben Shelton and Aleksandar Kovacevic will fight against each other in the qualifications of the Cary Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:00 am on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.33
Ben Shelton -> 3.2
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Prediction and head to head Ben Shelton vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Ben Shelton and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Ben Shelton
Currently unranked, the American got to the qualifications after beating Michail Pervolarakis 6-3 6-2.
In the qualifications, Ben had a good straight sets win against Pervolarakis (6-3 6-2). During the match, Shelton scored 61 points vs Pervolarakis’s 44. Ben was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about the service games, Shelton blasted 4 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Ben Shelton was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (26/34) of his 1st serve and 60% (15/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Pervolarakis 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
Shelton has a solid record in the last 1 years having won 67% of his matches (4-2). 1-1 on hard in 2021. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Shelton has an overall1-1 match record in the last 1 years on hard.
Ben has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2021, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Cary Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
Ranked no. 413, the American got to the qualifications after beating Dennis Novikov 7-65 7-66.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Novikov (7-65 7-66). During the match Kovacevic scored 77 points vs Novikov’s 73. Aleksandar was pretty aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Kovacevic fired 16 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Aleksandar Kovacevic was very efficient on serve to win 87% (39/45) of his 1st serve and 71% (22/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match.
Kovacevic’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger.
Aleksandar has a compiled 9-5 win-loss record in 2021, 2-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Shelton | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 26 |
| Pts | 61-44 | 77-73 |
| Total Points | 105 | 150 |
| Winners | 26 | 39 |
| %Winners | 43% | 51% |
Both Shelton and Kovacevic played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shelton and Kovacevic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shelton played 9 games less than Kovacevic. Ben scored 26 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, Kovacevic blasted 39 winners (51%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Shelton | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 16 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 16 |
| 1st in | 34/59 | 45/76 |
| %1st in | 58% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 39/45 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 87% |
| 2nd pts | 15/25 | 22/31 |
| %2nd pts | 60% | 71% |
Shelton made 4 aces . Kovacevic blasted 16 aces . Shelton won 76% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Kovacevic won 87% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Shelton | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 0 |
| Converted | 3/4 | 0/1 |
| % Converted | 75% | 0% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 3 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | NAN% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
The American broke his opponent 3 times with a 75% conversion rate. Shelton quite strong on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points. On the other side, The American hasn’t manged yet to break his opponent. He didn’t manage to even clinch a single break point. Aleksandar was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points without even conceding a single break point.
| Shelton | |||
| Q1 Pervolarakis |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 61-44 | 61-44 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 34/59 | 34/59 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 26/34 | 26/34 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/25 | 15/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 60% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 3/4 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 75% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kovacevic | |||
| Q1 Novikov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 7-66 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 26 | 26 | |
| pts | 77-73 | 77-73 | |
| Total points | 150 | 150 | |
| Winners | 39 | 39 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 16 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 45/76 | 45/76 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 39/45 | 39/45 | |
| % 1st pts | 87% | 87% | |
| 2nd pts | 22/31 | 22/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 71% | 71% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 0 | 0 | |
| Converted | 0/1 | 0/1 | |
| Converted % | 0% | 0% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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