Fernando Verdasco and Aleksandar Kovacevic will play each other in the 2nd round of the Monterrey Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on ESTADIO GNP SEGUROS. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Fernando Verdasco who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Fernando Verdasco is the pick to win this match.
Fernando Verdasco -> 1.48
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 2.65
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Prediction and head to head Fernando Verdasco vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Fernando Verdasco and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Fernando Verdasco
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6-16 | 3-6 | 1-8 | 2-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-32 | 17-12 | 12-13 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-20 | 7-6 | 3-7 | 0-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 6-8 | 4-2 | 0-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 26-27 | 6-8 | 8-9 | 7-6 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 150, Verdasco reached the 2nd round after defeating Zhe Li 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Verdasco had a good straight sets win against Li (6-4 6-2). During the match, Verdasco scored 67 points vs Li’s 44. Fernando was quite aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Verdasco scored 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Fernando Verdasco was very efficient on serve to win 76% (25/33) of his 1st serve and 72% (13/18) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Spaniard broke Li 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Verdasco has a favorable match record in the last 10 years having won 51% of his matches (219-209). 1-1 on hard in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Verdasco has a composed 75-75 match record in the last years on hard.
The Spaniard has a compiled 7-6 win-loss record in 2022, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Monterrey Challenger
Fernando has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-14 | 14-7 | 5-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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. 367, Kovacevic reached the 2nd round after defeating Wilson Leite 7-5 6-1, Luis Patino 6-4 6-3 and Naoki Nakagawa 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Kovacevic had a good straight sets win against Nakagawa (6-2 6-2). During the match Kovacevic scored 66 points vs Nakagawa’s 47. The American was exceptionally aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic managed to score 6 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic was extremely efficient on serve to win 71% (27/38) of his 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The American broke Nakagawa 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
The American has an overall 5-4 win-loss record in 2022, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Verdasco | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 18 | 54 |
| Pts | 67-44 | 196-140 |
| Total Points | 111 | 336 |
| Winners | 25 | 82 |
| %Winners | 37% | 42% |
Verdasco played 1 match while Kovacevic competed in 3 matches. Kovacevic started his run from the qualifications while Verdasco had a direct access to the main draw. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Verdasco has played 4 set(s) less than Kovacevic (2 vs 6). Therefore, Verdasco played 36 games less than Kovacevic. Fernando scored 25 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Kovacevic made 82 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Verdasco | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 19 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 6.3 |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 102/168 |
| %1st in | 65% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 82/102 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 80% |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 35/66 |
| %2nd pts | 72% | 53% |
Verdasco made 6 aces . Kovacevic scored 19 aces (6.3 per match). Verdasco won 76% points on his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 72% of the points. On the other side, Kovacevic won 80% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 53% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Verdasco | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 11 |
| Converted | 4/11 | 11/25 |
| % Converted | 36% | 44% |
| Conceded | 2 | 5 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 50% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
The Spaniard broke his opponent 4 times with a 36% conversion rate. Verdasco surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Kovacevic broke his opponents 11 times with a 44% conversion rate. Aleksandar conceded his serve twice and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Verdasco | |||
| R1 Li |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 67-44 | 67-44 | |
| Total points | 111 | 111 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 25/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/18 | 13/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/11 | 4/11 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kovacevic | |||||
| Q1 Leite |
Q3 Patino |
R1 Nakagawa |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | 6-4 6-3 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | 16 | 54 | |
| pts | 63-40 | 67-53 | 66-47 | 196-140 | |
| Total points | 103 | 120 | 113 | 336 | |
| Winners | 28 | 27 | 27 | 82 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 40% | 41% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 29/50 | 35/64 | 38/54 | 102/168 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 55% | 70% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 28/29 | 27/35 | 27/38 | 82/102 | |
| % 1st pts | 97% | 77% | 71% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/21 | 13/29 | 10/16 | 35/66 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 45% | 63% | 53% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | |
| Converted | 3/4 | 4/10 | 4/11 | 11/25 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 40% | 36% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 1/3 | 2/2 | 3 | |
| Saved % | – | 33% | 100% | 133% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
WWLLLLWWLL Tennis Scores in Monterrey Challenger
- Go SoedaSoeda – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-2 6-70 6-3) – See score progression
- Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux – Juan Alejandro HernandezAlejandro Hernandez (6-2 2-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Evan ZhuZhu – Milledge CossuCossu (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Naoki NakagawaNakagawa (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Jose StathamStatham (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – William BlumbergBlumberg (2-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Bernard TomicTomic – Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Tommy RobredoRobredo – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Pedja KrstinKrstin (6-2 7-5) – See score progression
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Julian LenzLenz (6-3 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Zhe LiLi (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Maxime JanvierJanvier (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Jason JungJung – Strong KirchheimerKirchheimer (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Tommy RobredoRobredo – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernard TomicTomic – Christian HarrisonHarrison (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Go SoedaSoeda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Jay ClarkeClarke (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Evan ZhuZhu – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
