Alexander Shevchenko and Miljan Zekic will square off in the 1st round of the Split Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 10:30 am on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Alexander Shevchenko who should win in 3 sets.
Alexander Shevchenko -> 1.72
Miljan Zekic -> 2.00
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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Miljan Zekic
This will be the 3rd time that Alexander Shevchenko and Miljan Zekic play each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Shevchenko and Zekic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Zekic won 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in the Barletta Challenger back in April 2022.
Alexander Shevchenko
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-34 | 11-12 | 19-16 | 2-4 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 22-35 | 8-13 | 6-12 | 7-7 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 45-34 | 16-15 | 19-13 | 10-5 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-33 | 2-4 | 41-23 | 7-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-27 | 8-4 | 33-17 | 8-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 264 (career-high), the Russian got to the 1st round after defeating Khumoun Sultanov 6-2 6-4 and Luca Van Assche 6-2 6-2.
In the qualifications, Alexander had a good straight sets win against Van Assche (6-2 6-2). During the match, Shevchenko scored 70 points vs Van Assche’s 52. Alexander was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Shevchenko was unable to score even 1 ace in the match and he committed only 1 double fault. Alexander Shevchenko lost the serve twice and he saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Shevchenko put 58% of his first serves in, winning 59% (20/34) of the points behind his 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Van Assche 6 times after converting 60% of his break points (6/10).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Russian started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 57% of the points he played.
Shevchenko has a solid record in the last 5 years having won 66% of his matches (152-77). 15-6 on clay in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Shevchenko has a composed119-59 match record in the last 5 years on clay.
Shevchenko’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M25 Antalya.
The Russian has a composed 17-8 win-loss record in 2022, 15-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Split Challenger
Shevchenko has never competed in this tournament before.
Miljan Zekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-8 | 2-0 | 16-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-31 | 3-6 | 22-25 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 0-2 | 41-29 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 49-23 | 0-0 | 49-23 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 278, Miljan will start his run in the Split Challenger after he played his last match in the Barletta Challenger where he lost 6-3 7-5
to Borges in the final on the 17th of April.Zekic has an aggregate 19-9 win-loss record in 2022, 19-9 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Zekic’s best result of the season was reaching the final in the Barletta Challenger.
In terms of his career, The Serbian has an overall 464-228 record. He has a positive 434-196 record on clay.
Tennis Scores in Split Challenger
- Blaz RolaRola – Luka MikrutMikrut (6-3 4-6 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lukas KleinKlein – Andrey KuznetsovKuznetsov (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jelle SelsSels – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Altug CelikbilekCelikbilek – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kacper ZukZuk – Mili PoljicakPoljicak (5-7 6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Mirza BasicBasic – Geoffrey BlancaneauxBlancaneaux (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Blaz RolaRola – Kacper ZukZuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nerman FaticFatic – Mate ValkuszValkusz (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Lukas KleinKlein (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine HoangHoang – Nikola MilojevicMilojevic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Michael GeertsGeerts – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexander ShevchenkoShevchenko – Miljan ZekicZekic (1-1) – H2H and prediction