Alexander Shevchenko and Jozef Kovalik will square off in the qualifications of the Hamburg European Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 2:30 pm on M1. 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.

As per the initial odds, Alexander Shevchenko is the pick to win this match.
Alexander Shevchenko -> 1.76
Jozef Kovalik -> 2.06

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Prediction and head to head Alexander Shevchenko vs. Jozef Kovalik

There is no head to head record between Alexander Shevchenko and Jozef Kovalik since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Alexander Shevchenko

Ranked no. 155 (career-high), the Russian got to the qualifications after beating Eduard Esteve Lobato 6-0 6-3.

In the qualifications, Shevchenko had a good straight sets win against Esteve Lobato (6-0 6-3). During the match, Shevchenko scored 64 points vs Esteve Lobato’s 41. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Regarding the service games, Shevchenko scored just 1 ace in the encounter and he was quite solid in conceding no double faults. Alexander Shevchenko lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Shevchenko put 69% of his first serves in, winning 74% (23/31) of the points behind his 1st serve and 43% (6/14) on the 2nd serve. Alexander broke Esteve Lobato 6 times after converting 50% of his break points (6/12).

Shevchenko has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 67% of his matches (171-86). 34-15 on clay in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Shevchenko has an aggregate138-68 record in the last 5 years on clay.

Shevchenko’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Antalya and the Bratislava Challenger.

Alexander has an overall 36-17 win-loss record in 2022, 34-15 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hamburg

Alexander has never competed in this tournament before.

Jozef Kovalik

Ranked no. 190, the Slovakian reached the qualifications after defeating Henri Laaksonen 6-4 6-1.

In the qualifications, Kovalik had a good straight sets win against Laaksonen (6-4 6-1). During the match Kovalik scored 70 points vs Laaksonen’s 50. The Slovakian was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Kovalik scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he was extremely steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Jozef Kovalik lost the serve once and he saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Kovalik put 63% of his first serves in, winning 74% (28/38) of the points behind his 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Kovalik broke Laaksonen 4 times after converting 44% of his break points (4/9).

Jozef’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in the Oeiras 2 Challenger and the Luedenscheid Challenger.

The Slovakian has a compiled 20-16 win-loss record in 2022, 18-10 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hamburg

Previously, his best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See his history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Shevchenko	Kovalik
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	17
Pts	64-41	70-50
Total Points	105	120
Winners	23	28
%Winners	36%	40%

Both Shevchenko and Kovalik played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Shevchenko and Kovalik have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Shevchenko played 2 games less than Kovalik. Shevchenko scored 23 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, The Slovakian scored 28 winners (40%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Shevchenko	Kovalik
Aces	1	1
Avg per match	1	1
1st in	31/45	38/60
%1st in	69%	63%
1st pts	23/31	28/38
%1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	6/14	11/22
%2nd pts	43%	50%

Shevchenko scored 1 ace . Kovalik also fired 1 ace . Shevchenko won 74% points on his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Kovalik won 74% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Shevchenko	Kovalik
Won	6	4
Converted	6/12	4/9
% Converted	50%	44%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1	2
% Saved	33%	67%
Times Broken	2	1

Shevchenko broke his opponent 6 times with a 50% conversion rate. Shevchenko lost his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Kovalik broke his opponent 4 times with a 44% conversion rate. Jozef conceded his serve once and he saved 67% of the break points that he conceded.

Shevchenko
	Q1 Esteve Lobato	Total
Score	6-0 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	15	15
pts	64-41	64-41
Total points	105	105
Winners	23	23
%Winners	36%	36%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	31/45	31/45
% 1st in	69%	69%
1st pts	23/31	23/31
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	6/14	6/14
% 2nd pts	43%	43%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/12	6/12
Converted %	50%	50%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1/3	1
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	2	2

Kovalik
	Q1 Laaksonen	Total
Score	6-4 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	70-50	70-50
Total points	120	120
Winners	28	28
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	0	0
1st in	38/60	38/60
% 1st in	63%	63%
1st pts	28/38	28/38
% 1st pts	74%	74%
2nd pts	11/22	11/22
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/9	4/9
Converted %	44%	44%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

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