Aleksandar Vukic and Stefan Kozlov will fight against each other in the final of the Champaign Challenger for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am 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 Stefan Kozlov who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Stefan Kozlov is the pick to win this match.
Stefan Kozlov -> 1.82
Aleksandar Vukic -> 1.99

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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Vukic vs. Stefan Kozlov

This will be the 4th time that Aleksandar Vukic and Stefan Kozlov face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Kozlov (see full H2H stats

), 2-0 on indoor hard courts.

The last time that they fought against each other, Kozlov won 6-3 4-6 7-5 in the 1st round in the Knoxville Challenger back in November 2021.

Aleksandar Vukic

Ranked no. 170 (career-high), Vukic got to the final after beating Tung-Lin Wu 6-3 6-3, Gijs Brouwer 6-4 6-4, Go Soeda 6-2 6-2 and Yosuke Watanuki 7-68 6-4.

In the semifinal, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Watanuki (7-68 6-4). During the match, Vukic scored 76 points vs Watanuki’s 69. Aleksandar was exceptionally aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Regarding the service games, Vukic blasted 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Aleksandar Vukic was extremely effective on serve to win 71% (30/42) of his 1st serve and 73% (24/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Aleksandar was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Watanuki twice.

Overall Performance in this tournament

Vukic started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t lost yet a set in this event to win 55% of the points he played.

Vukic has a winning match record in the last 7 years having won 58% of his matches (200-142). 11-6 on indoor hard courts in 2021. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Vukic has a compiled31-21 win-loss record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.

Aleksandar’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Charlottesville Challenger.

The Australian has an aggregate 34-25 win-loss record in 2021, 11-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Previously in the Champaign Challenger

Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2017. See his history.

Champaign Challenger
Vukic's Record

Stefan Kozlov

Ranked no. 187, the American reached the final after defeating Jc Aragone 3-6 6-3 6-4, Keegan Smith 6-3 6-1, Mitchell Krueger 6-4 6-4 and Jeff Wolf 6-2 6-3.

In the semifinal, Stefan had a good straight sets win against Wolf (6-2 6-3). During the match Kozlov scored 57 points vs Wolf’s 35. Kozlov was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.

About the serving games, Kozlov blasted 6 aces and he was very steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Overall, Stefan Kozlov was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (19/23) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Stefan broke Wolf 5 times after converting 63% of his break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Stefan started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 56% of the points he played.

His best result of the current year was winning the title in the Columbus Challenger where he overcame Max Purcell in the final 4-6 6-2 6-4 and in the Charlottesville Challenger where he overcame Aleksandar Vukic in the final 6-2 6-3.

Stefan has a composed 40-15 win-loss record in 2021, 15-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).

Champaign Challenger
Kozlov's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament

A.Vukic
S.Kozlov
4h:59
4h:59
Time on court​
6h:02
6h:02
1h:37
1h:37
Last match​
1h:06
1h:06
4
4
Match played
4
4
77
77
Games Played​
81
81
8
8
Set played​​
9
9
273
273
Total points​
292
292
68.3
68.3
Avg point​
73
73
107
107
Winners
114
114
26.8
26.8
Avg Winners​
28.5
28.5
39%
39%
Ratio winners
39%
39%
-- Serve --
25
25
Aces
15
15
6.3
6.3
Avg Aces
3.8
3.8
3
3
Double Faults
11
11
0.8
0.8
Avg Double Faults
2.8
2.8
107/145
107/145
1st won total​
114/152
114/152
!
74%
74%
1st won %
!
75%
75%
58/92
58/92
2nd won total​
45/88
45/88
!
63%
63%
2nd won %
51%
51%
-- Break Points --
14/26
14/26
BP won
17/39
17/39
3.5/6.5
3.5/6.5
Avg BP won
4.3/9.8
4.3/9.8
!
54%
54%
Won
44%
44%
13
13
Conceded
16
16
3.3
3.3
Avg Conceded
4
4
4
4
Broken
6
6
1
1
Avg Broken
1.5
1.5
9
9
Saved
10
10
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Vukic Kozlov
Match played 4 4
Tot Set 8 9
Tot Games 77 81
Pts 273-220 292-231
Total Points 493 523
Winners 107 114
%Winners 39% 39%

Both Vukic and Kozlov played 4 matches. At the moment, Stefan Kozlov conceded 1 set while Aleksandar Vukic hasn’t lost a set so far. Vukic has played 1 set(s) less than Kozlov (8 vs 9). Therefore, Vukic played 4 games less than Kozlov. The Australian scored 107 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Kozlov struck 114 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve Vukic Kozlov
Aces 25 15
Avg per match 6.3 3.8
1st in 145/237 152/240
%1st in 61% 63%
1st pts 107/145 114/152
%1st pts 74% 75%
2nd pts 58/92 45/88
%2nd pts 63% 51%

Vukic fired 25 aces (6.3 per match). Kozlov struck 15 aces (3.8 per match). Vukic won 74% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Kozlov won 75% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 51% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Vukic Kozlov
Won 14 17
Converted 14/26 17/39
% Converted 54% 44%
Conceded 13 16
Saved 9 10
% Saved 69% 63%
Times Broken 4 6

Aleksandar broke his opponents 14 times with a 54% conversion rate. Vukic surrendered his serve 4 times and he saved 69% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponents 17 times with a 44% conversion rate. Kozlov conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 63% of the break points that he conceded.

Vukic
R1
Wu		 R2
Brouwer		 1/4
Soeda		 1/2
Watanuki		 Total
Score 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-4 6-2 6-2 7-68 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 2 8
Tot Games 18 20 16 23 77
pts 65-53 74-62 58-36 76-69 273-220
Total points 118 136 94 145 493
Winners 18 36 23 30 107
%Winners 28% 49% 40% 39% 39%
SERVE
Aces 4 4 13 4 25
Double Faults 1 1 0 1 3
1st in 27/49 48/71 28/42 42/75 145/237
% 1st in 55% 68% 67% 56% 61%
1st pts 18/27 36/48 23/28 30/42 107/145
% 1st pts 67% 75% 82% 71% 74%
2nd pts 13/22 11/23 10/14 24/33 58/92
% 2nd pts 59% 48% 71% 73% 63%
Breaks
Won 5 3 4 2 14
Converted 5/10 3/8 4/6 2/2 14/26
Converted % 50% 38% 67% 100% 54%
Conceded 4 6 1 2 13
Saved 2/4 5/6 1/1 1/2 9
Saved % 50% 83% 100% 50% 71%
Times Broken 2 1 0 1 4
Kozlov
R1
Aragone		 R2
Smith		 1/4
Krueger		 1/2
Wolf		 Total
Score 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-3 6-1 6-4 6-4 6-2 6-3
Tot Set 3 2 2 2 9
Tot Games 28 16 20 17 81
pts 113-106 54-31 68-59 57-35 292-231
Total points 219 85 127 92 523
Winners 44 21 30 19 114
%Winners 39% 39% 44% 33% 39%
SERVE
Aces 2 2 5 6 15
Double Faults 2 3 6 0 11
1st in 59/90 26/45 44/66 23/39 152/240
% 1st in 66% 58% 67% 59% 63%
1st pts 44/59 21/26 30/44 19/23 114/152
% 1st pts 75% 81% 68% 83% 75%
2nd pts 13/31 11/19 11/22 10/16 45/88
% 2nd pts 42% 58% 50% 63% 51%
Breaks
Won 3 5 4 5 17
Converted 3/16 5/8 4/7 5/8 17/39
Converted % 19% 63% 57% 63% 44%
Conceded 7 5 3 1 16
Saved 5/7 4/5 1/3 0/1 10
Saved % 71% 80% 33% 0% 46%
Times Broken 2 1 2 1 6

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