Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Aleksandar Kovacevic will face off in the 1st round of the Columbus Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 8:00 pm on COURT 4. 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.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.68
Prajnesh Gunneswaran -> 2.13
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Prediction and head to head Prajnesh Gunneswaran vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Ranked no. 167,he will start his run in the Columbus Challenger after he played his last match in IND where he beat 6-3 7-5 to Niklas-Salminen in the Rubber 4 on the 18th of September.
Prajnesh has a composed 15-23 win-loss record in 2021, 7-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Gunneswaran’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Sultan 1 Challenger and the Sultan 2 Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Gunneswaran has an overall 270-171 record. He has a negative 12-15 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017. See his history.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
Ranked no. 364 (career-high), Kovacevic got to the 1st round after beating Seong Chan Hong 4-6 7-5 7-5 and Shintaro Mochizuki 6-3 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kovacevic had a good straight sets win against Mochizuki (6-3 6-4). During the match Kovacevic scored 65 points vs Mochizuki’s 53. Aleksandar was pretty aggressive to blast 34 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic struck 15 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 74% (34/46) of his 1st serve and 53% (9/17) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kovacevic broke Mochizuki 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The American’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Cleveland Challenger.
Kovacevic has a composed 17-11 win-loss record in 2021, 7-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Columbus Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2020. See his history.
Head 2 Head
LLLLLWWLLW Tennis Scores in Columbus Challenger
- Dayne KellyKelly – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-2 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max PurcellPurcell – James TracyTracy (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Jason JungJung (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Nick ChappellChappell (5-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alex BoltBolt – Noah RubinRubin (7-65 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Peter PolanskyPolansky (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Mikael TorpegaardTorpegaard (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jc AragoneAragone – Evan KingKing (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Aleksandar VukicVukic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund – Jeff WolfWolf (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yunseong ChungChung – Ji Sung NamSung Nam (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan PenistonPeniston – Max PurcellPurcell (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Gijs BrouwerBrouwer – Darian KingKing (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Dayne KellyKelly (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Matej VocelVocel – Cannon KingsleyKingsley (0-0) – H2H and prediction
