Aleksandar Kovacevic and Sho Shimabukuro will square off in the 2nd round of the Indianapolis Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.56
Sho Shimabukuro -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Sho Shimabukuro
There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Sho Shimabukuro since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-15 | 14-7 | 5-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 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. 269 (career-high), the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Stefan Kozlov 6-3 6-74 6-4.
In the 1st round, Kovacevic defeated Kozlov (6-3 6-74 6-4). During the match, Kovacevic scored 102 points vs Kozlov’s 85. The American was very aggressive to blast 47 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kovacevic fired 8 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was pretty efficient on serve to win 80% (47/59) of his 1st serve and 68% (25/37) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Aleksandar broke Kozlov 3 times after converting 60% of his break points (3/5).
Kovacevic has a winning win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 55% of his matches (89-72). 6-5 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this event, Kovacevic has an overall23-19 record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
Aleksandar’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Little Rock Challenger.
Kovacevic has an aggregate 21-16 win-loss record in 2022, 6-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Indianapolis Challenger
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Sho Shimabukuro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5-14 | 3-7 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 43-26 | 19-17 | 7-1 | 9-4 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-25 | 38-20 | 0-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-20 | 28-18 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-5 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 355 (career-high), Sho reached the 2nd round after beating Patrick Fletchall 6-4 7-67, Yu Hsiou Hsu 6-3 6-2 and Bjorn Fratangelo 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, Sho had a good straight sets win against Fratangelo (6-4 6-3). During the match Shimabukuro scored 69 points vs Fratangelo’s 50. Shimabukuro was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Shimabukuro blasted 10 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Sho Shimabukuro was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (23/31) of his 1st serve and 68% (13/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. Shimabukuro broke Fratangelo 4 times after converting 36% of his break points (4/11).
Shimabukuro’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 Monastir and M25 Harmon.
The Japanese has an overall 27-13 win-loss record in 2022, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovacevic | Shimabukuro |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 6 |
| Tot Games | 32 | 59 |
| Pts | 102-85 | 209-161 |
| Total Points | 187 | 370 |
| Winners | 47 | 80 |
| %Winners | 46% | 38% |
Kovacevic played 1 match while Shimabukuro competed in 3 matches. Shimabukuro started his run from the qualifications while Kovacevic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Aleksandar Kovacevic lost 1 set while Sho Shimabukuro hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kovacevic has played 3 set(s) less than Shimabukuro (3 vs 6). Therefore, Kovacevic played 27 games less than Shimabukuro. Aleksandar scored 47 winners (46% of the total points). On the other side, Sho recorded 80 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovacevic | Shimabukuro |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 26 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 8.7 |
| 1st in | 59/96 | 99/168 |
| %1st in | 61% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 47/59 | 80/99 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 25/37 | 42/69 |
| %2nd pts | 68% | 61% |
Kovacevic scored 8 aces . Shimabukuro scored 26 aces (8.7 per match). Kovacevic won 80% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 68% of the points. On the other side, Shimabukuro won 81% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 61% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovacevic | Shimabukuro |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 10 |
| Converted | 3/5 | 10/23 |
| % Converted | 60% | 43% |
| Conceded | 4 | 5 |
| Saved | 3 | 2 |
| % Saved | 75% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Aleksandar broke his opponent 3 times with a 60% conversion rate. Kovacevic lost his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Shimabukuro broke his opponents 10 times with a 43% conversion rate. Sho conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 40% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kovacevic | |||
| R1 Kozlov |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-74 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 32 | |
| pts | 102-85 | 102-85 | |
| Total points | 187 | 187 | |
| Winners | 47 | 47 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 46% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 59/96 | 59/96 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 47/59 | 47/59 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/37 | 25/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 68% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 3/5 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 60% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Shimabukuro | |||||
| Q1 Fletchall |
Q3 Hsiou |
R1 Fratangelo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 7-67 | 6-3 6-2 | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 23 | 17 | 19 | 59 | |
| pts | 76-64 | 64-47 | 69-50 | 209-161 | |
| Total points | 140 | 111 | 119 | 370 | |
| Winners | 36 | 21 | 23 | 80 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 33% | 33% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 11 | 5 | 10 | 26 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 40/60 | 28/58 | 31/50 | 99/168 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 48% | 62% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 36/40 | 21/28 | 23/31 | 80/99 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 75% | 74% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 17/30 | 13/19 | 42/69 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 57% | 68% | 61% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 2/5 | 4/7 | 4/11 | 10/23 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 57% | 36% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0/1 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | 0% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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LLWLLWWLLL Tennis Scores in Indianapolis Challenger
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- Billy HarrisHarris – Jeff WolfWolf (6-4 6-71 7-61) – See score progression
- Tim Van RijthovenVan Rijthoven – Evan ZhuZhu (6-72 7-65 7-63) – See score progression
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy (7-64 7-63) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Borna GojoGojo (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yibing WuWu – Hady HabibHabib (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Brandon HoltHolt (4-6 7-61 6-3) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Gijs BrouwerBrouwer (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Alex RybakovRybakov – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-610 7-5) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-3 6-74 6-4) – See score progression
- Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama – Ramkumar RamanathanRamanathan (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Yosuke WatanukiWatanuki (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Nishesh BasavareddyBasavareddy (7-6(4) 7-6(3)) – See score progression
- Yibing WuWu – Hady HabibHabib (7-6(2) 6-2) – See score progression
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Bjorn FratangeloFratangelo (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aidan MchughMchugh – Borna GojoGojo (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Max PurcellPurcell – Aidan MchughMchugh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Billy HarrisHarris – Yasutaka UchiyamaUchiyama (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dominik KoepferKoepfer – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Alex RybakovRybakov (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
