Aleksandar Kovacevic and Strong Kirchheimer will face off in the 2nd round of the Rome Challenger for the 5th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 12:00 pm on COURT 5. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.38
Strong Kirchheimer -> 3.04
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Strong Kirchheimer
This will be the 5th time that Aleksandar Kovacevic and Strong Kirchheimer face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Kovacevic and Kirchheimer (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Kovacevic won 6-3 6-4 in the qualifications in the Cary 2 Challenger back in 2021.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-19 | 14-7 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 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. 295, Aleksandar reached the 2nd round after beating Donald Young 4-6 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round against Young, Kovacevic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-2 6-1). During the match, Kovacevic scored 81 points vs Young’s 58. Aleksandar was quite aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kovacevic blasted 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was pretty efficient on serve to win 86% (31/36) of his 1st serve and 55% (18/33) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. Aleksandar broke Young 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Kovacevic has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 55% of his matches (87-71). 4-4 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kovacevic has a compiled21-18 match record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
The American’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in the Little Rock Challenger.
The American has a composed 19-15 win-loss record in 2022, 4-4 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Rome Challenger
Aleksandar has never competed in this tournament before.
Strong Kirchheimer
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-16 | 9-8 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-29 | 19-16 | 2-4 | 17-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-30 | 17-12 | 7-11 | 9-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-21 | 12-15 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-12 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 581, Strong got to the 2nd round after defeating N.Sriram Balaji 6-4 6-1, Taha Baadi 7-5 7-65 and Emilio Gomez 6-4 7-61.
In the 1st round, Kirchheimer had a good straight sets win against Gomez (6-4 7-61). During the match Kirchheimer scored 86 points vs Gomez’s 73. Kirchheimer was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
About the serving games, Kirchheimer recorded 2 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Strong Kirchheimer lost the serve twice and he saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kirchheimer put 61% of his first serves in, winning 65% (37/57) of the points behind his 1st serve and 61% (22/36) on the 2nd serve. Kirchheimer broke Gomez 3 times after converting 75% of his break points (3/4).
The American has an overall 17-16 win-loss record in 2022, 3-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovacevic | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 25 | 65 |
| Pts | 81-58 | 227-183 |
| Total Points | 139 | 410 |
| Winners | 31 | 99 |
| %Winners | 38% | 44% |
Kovacevic played 1 match while Kirchheimer competed in 3 matches. Kirchheimer started his run from the qualifications while Kovacevic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Aleksandar Kovacevic dropped 1 set while Strong Kirchheimer hasn’t conceded a set so far. Kovacevic has played 3 set(s) less than Kirchheimer (3 vs 6). Therefore, Kovacevic played 40 games less than Kirchheimer. Kovacevic scored 31 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Strong scored 99 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovacevic | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 2.7 |
| 1st in | 36/69 | 137/206 |
| %1st in | 52% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 31/36 | 99/137 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 36/69 |
| %2nd pts | 55% | 52% |
Kovacevic scored 7 aces . Kirchheimer struck 8 aces (2.7 per match). Kovacevic won 86% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 55% of the points. On the other side, Kirchheimer won 72% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovacevic | Kirchheimer |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 12 |
| Converted | 5/9 | 12/23 |
| % Converted | 56% | 52% |
| Conceded | 3 | 15 |
| Saved | 1 | 9 |
| % Saved | 33% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 6 |
Kovacevic broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Kovacevic surrendered his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponents 12 times with a 52% conversion rate. Strong conceded his serve 6 times and he saved 60% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kovacevic | |||
| R1 Young |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 4-6 6-2 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 25 | 25 | |
| pts | 81-58 | 81-58 | |
| Total points | 139 | 139 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 36/69 | 36/69 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 31/36 | 31/36 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/33 | 18/33 | |
| % 2nd pts | 55% | 55% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Kirchheimer | |||||
| Q1 Balaji |
Q3 Baadi |
R1 Gomez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-1 | 7-5 7-65 | 6-4 7-61 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 25 | 23 | 65 | |
| pts | 68-43 | 73-67 | 86-73 | 227-183 | |
| Total points | 111 | 140 | 159 | 410 | |
| Winners | 25 | 37 | 37 | 99 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 51% | 43% | 44% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 33/45 | 47/68 | 57/93 | 137/206 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 69% | 61% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 25/33 | 37/47 | 37/57 | 99/137 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 79% | 65% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/12 | 7/21 | 22/36 | 36/69 | |
| % 2nd pts | 58% | 33% | 61% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/8 | 3/4 | 12/23 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 50% | 75% | 52% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1/4 | 7/9 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 25% | 78% | 153% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
Head 2 Head
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