Aleksandar Kovacevic and Andrew Paulson will square off in the qualifications of the Biel Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Andrew Paulson who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Andrew Paulson is the pick to win this match.
Andrew Paulson -> 1.88
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.88
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Andrew Paulson
There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Andrew Paulson since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-33 | 18-15 | 5-8 | 2-6 | 2-4 | 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. 401, the American reached the qualifications after defeating Remy Bertola 7-5 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kovacevic had a good straight sets win against Bertola (7-5 6-2). During the match, Kovacevic scored 70 points vs Bertola’s 54. Aleksandar was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kovacevic fired 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic lost the serve twice and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Kovacevic put 63% of his first serves in, winning 78% (31/40) of the points behind his 1st serve and 39% (9/23) on the 2nd serve. Aleksandar broke Bertola 5 times after converting 45% of his break points (5/11).
Kovacevic has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 51% of his matches (38-37). 1-2 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kovacevic has an aggregate13-12 match record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
Kovacevic has an aggregate 8-6 win-loss record in 2022, 1-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Biel Challenger
Kovacevic has never competed in this tournament before.
Andrew Paulson
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-22 | 1-3 | 31-13 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
| 2022 | 53-27 | 6-3 | 30-15 | 15-7 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 47-26 | 19-8 | 11-11 | 15-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 4-5 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 524 (career-high), Andrew reached the qualifications after defeating Alexander Erler 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications, Paulson had a good straight sets win against Erler (7-5 6-3). During the match Paulson scored 71 points vs Erler’s 57. Andrew was extremely aggressive to blast 26 winners.
Talking about serving, Paulson managed to score 9 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Andrew Paulson was very efficient on serve to win 84% (26/31) of his 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Czech broke Erler 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
The Czech’s best result of the season was getting to the final in M15 Monastir.
Paulson has an overall 14-5 win-loss record in 2022, 6-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovacevic | Paulson |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 20 | 21 |
| Pts | 70-54 | 71-57 |
| Total Points | 124 | 128 |
| Winners | 31 | 26 |
| %Winners | 44% | 37% |
Both Kovacevic and Paulson played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kovacevic and Paulson have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kovacevic played 1 game less than Paulson. Aleksandar scored 31 winners (44% of the total points). On the other side, Paulson made 26 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovacevic | Paulson |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 9 |
| Avg per match | 6 | 9 |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 31/54 |
| %1st in | 63% | 57% |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 26/31 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 84% |
| 2nd pts | 9/23 | 13/23 |
| %2nd pts | 39% | 57% |
Kovacevic recorded 6 aces . Paulson scored 9 aces . Kovacevic won 78% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 39% of the points. On the other side, Paulson won 84% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 57% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovacevic | Paulson |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/13 |
| % Converted | 45% | 31% |
| Conceded | 7 | 5 |
| Saved | 5 | 4 |
| % Saved | 71% | 80% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 |
Kovacevic broke his opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Kovacevic conceded his serve twice and he saved 71% of the break points that he conceded. Paulson broke his opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. The Czech conceded his serve once and he saved 80% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kovacevic | |||
| Q1 Bertola |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 20 | 20 | |
| pts | 70-54 | 70-54 | |
| Total points | 124 | 124 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 44% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 40/63 | 40/63 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 31/40 | 31/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 78% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/23 | 9/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 39% | 39% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 5/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 71% | 71% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Paulson | |||
| Q1 Erler |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 71-57 | 71-57 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 31/54 | 31/54 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 26/31 | 26/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 84% | 84% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/23 | 13/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/13 | 4/13 | |
| Converted % | 31% | 31% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 80% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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