Tomas Barrios Vera and Aleksandar Kovacevic will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Tallahassee Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 4:00 pm on STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Tomas Barrios Vera who should win in 2 sets.
Tomas Barrios Vera -> 1.41
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 2.91
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Prediction and head to head Tomas Barrios Vera vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Tomas Barrios Vera and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Tomas Barrios Vera
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52-28 | 5-5 | 43-20 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 36-28 | 6-5 | 26-19 | 0-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 50-30 | 4-7 | 42-22 | 0-0 | 4-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-17 | 3-1 | 20-14 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 41-27 | 4-6 | 34-20 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141 (career-high), Marcelo reached the 2nd round after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, Tomas Barrios Vera had a good straight sets win against Ramanathan (6-1 6-3). During the match, Tomas Barrios Vera scored 59 points vs Ramanathan’s 34. Marcelo was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Regarding the service games, Tomas Barrios Vera scored just 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 1 double fault. Tomas Barrios Vera was very efficient on serve to win 79% (23/29) of his 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Tomas Barrios Vera broke Ramanathan 4 times after converting 67% of his break points (4/6).
Tomas Barrios Vera has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 65% of his matches (260-142). 8-6 on clay in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this competition, Tomas Barrios Vera has an overall187-100 win-loss record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Chilean’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Concepcion 2 Challenger.
The Chilean has an aggregate 11-7 win-loss record in 2022, 8-6 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tallahassee Challenger
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 13-14 | 4-7 | 16-8 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-35 | 20-17 | 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 |
Ranked no. 382, Kovacevic got to the 2nd round after beating Christian Langmo 6-2 7-61.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Langmo (6-2 7-61). During the match Kovacevic scored 76 points vs Langmo’s 59. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic struck 10 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (36/47) of his 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Kovacevic broke Langmo 3 times after converting 50% of his break points (3/6).
Aleksandar has an aggregate 13-9 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Tallahassee Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the qualifications in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Tomas Barrios Vera | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 21 |
| Pts | 59-34 | 76-59 |
| Total Points | 93 | 135 |
| Winners | 23 | 36 |
| %Winners | 39% | 47% |
Both Tomas Barrios Vera and Kovacevic played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Tomas Barrios Vera and Kovacevic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Tomas Barrios Vera played 5 games less than Kovacevic. Tomas Barrios Vera scored 23 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Aleksandar made 36 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Tomas Barrios Vera | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 10 |
| 1st in | 29/42 | 47/71 |
| %1st in | 69% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 36/47 |
| %1st pts | 79% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 13/24 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 54% |
Tomas Barrios Vera bagged 1 ace . Kovacevic also struck 10 aces . Tomas Barrios Vera won 79% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Kovacevic won 77% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 54% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Tomas Barrios Vera | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/6 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 67% | 50% |
| Conceded | 0 | 6 |
| Saved | 0 | 5 |
| % Saved | 0% | 83% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
Marcelo broke his opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Marcelo pretty effective on his serve as he has never dropped a single service game after saving 0 break points. Kovacevic broke his opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. The American conceded his serve once and he saved 83% of the break points that he conceded.
| Tomas Barrios Vera | |||
| R1 Ramanathan | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-34 | 59-34 | |
| Total points | 93 | 93 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 29/42 | 29/42 | |
| % 1st in | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 23/29 | 23/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 79% | 79% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/6 | 4/6 | |
| Converted % | 67% | 67% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kovacevic | |||
| R1 Langmo | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 7-61 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 76-59 | 76-59 | |
| Total points | 135 | 135 | |
| Winners | 36 | 36 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 47/71 | 47/71 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 36/47 | 36/47 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/24 | 13/24 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 5/6 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Tallahassee Challenger
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- Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki – Gonzalo LamaLama (7-62 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tung-Lin WuWu – Emilio GomezGomez (6-0 6-71 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Christian HarrisonHarrison – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Michael MmohMmoh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jeff WolfWolf – Alexander RitschardRitschard (0-0) – H2H and prediction