Yibing Wu and Aleksandar Kovacevic will square off in the final of the Indianapolis Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 2:00 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yibing Wu who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Yibing Wu is the pick to win this match.
Yibing Wu -> 1.23
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Yibing Wu vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between Yibing Wu and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Yibing Wu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7-4 | 5-3 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 18-17 | 5-7 | 3-5 | 9-1 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 40-7 | 20-5 | 10-2 | 10-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 233 (career-high), Wu reached the final after beating Hady Habib 7-62 6-2, Peter Gojowczyk 6-4 6-2, Alex Rybakov 6-3 6-3 and Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-5 6-3.
In the semifinal, Yibing had a good straight sets win against Uchiyama (7-5 6-3). During the match, Wu scored 71 points vs Uchiyama’s 58. Yibing was very aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Regarding the service games, Wu managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Yibing Wu lost the serve twice and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Wu put 72% of his first serves in, winning 73% (32/44) of the points behind his 1st serve and 47% (8/17) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Uchiyama 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Wu has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 64% of his matches (82-46). 9-0 on indoor hard courts in 2022. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Wu has a composed10-1 win-loss record in the last 5 years on indoor hard courts.
Wu’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in M15 Orange Park,the Orlando Challenger and the Rome Challenger.
The Chinese has a compiled 29-4 win-loss record in 2022, 9-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Indianapolis Challenger
Yibing has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25-27 | 18-14 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 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 |
| 2020 | 5-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 269 (career-high), Kovacevic reached the final after defeating Stefan Kozlov 6-3 6-74 6-4, Sho Shimabukuro 6-3 6-4, Dominik Koepfer 7-5 7-65 and Ben Shelton 6-4 7-5.
In the semifinal, The American had a good straight sets win against Shelton (6-4 7-5). During the match Kovacevic scored 72 points vs Shelton’s 56. Aleksandar was pretty aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Kovacevic scored 8 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Aleksandar Kovacevic was exceptionally effective on serve to win 88% (29/33) of his 1st serve and 66% (19/29) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Aleksandar broke Shelton twice after converting 40% of his break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Kovacevic has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Kovacevic’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Little Rock Challenger and the Indianapolis Challenger.
Aleksandar has an overall 24-16 win-loss record in 2022, 9-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Wu | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 8 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 78 | 98 |
| Pts | 267-197 | 318-265 |
| Total Points | 464 | 583 |
| Winners | 116 | 145 |
| %Winners | 43% | 46% |
Both Wu and Kovacevic played 4 matches. At the moment, Aleksandar Kovacevic lost 1 set while Yibing Wu hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Wu has played 1 set(s) less than Kovacevic (8 vs 9). Therefore, Wu played 20 games less than Kovacevic. The Chinese scored 116 winners (43% of the total points). On the other side, The American struck 145 winners (46%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Wu | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 19 | 37 |
| Avg per match | 4.8 | 9.3 |
| 1st in | 148/214 | 180/289 |
| %1st in | 69% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 116/148 | 145/180 |
| %1st pts | 78% | 81% |
| 2nd pts | 43/66 | 66/109 |
| %2nd pts | 65% | 61% |
Wu struck 19 aces (4.8 per match). Kovacevic managed to score 37 aces (9.3 per match). Wu won 78% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 65% of the points. On the other side, Kovacevic won 81% of the points behind 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 | Wu | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 13 | 11 |
| Converted | 13/39 | 11/30 |
| % Converted | 33% | 37% |
| Conceded | 10 | 18 |
| Saved | 7 | 14 |
| % Saved | 70% | 78% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 4 |
Yibing broke his opponents 13 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Chinese dropped his serve 3 times and he saved 70% of the break points that he conceded. The American broke his opponents 11 times with a 37% conversion rate. Aleksandar conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 78% of the break points that he conceded.
| Wu | ||||||
| R1 Habib |
R2 Gojowczyk |
1/4 Rybakov |
1/2 Uchiyama |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-62 6-2 | 6-4 6-2 | 6-3 6-3 | 7-5 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 78 | |
| pts | 69-51 | 64-44 | 63-44 | 71-58 | 267-197 | |
| Total points | 120 | 108 | 107 | 129 | 464 | |
| Winners | 34 | 25 | 25 | 32 | 116 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 39% | 40% | 45% | 43% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 3 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 19 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 46/61 | 31/50 | 27/42 | 44/61 | 148/214 | |
| % 1st in | 75% | 62% | 64% | 72% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 34/46 | 25/31 | 25/27 | 32/44 | 116/148 | |
| % 1st pts | 74% | 81% | 93% | 73% | 78% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/15 | 13/19 | 11/15 | 8/17 | 43/66 | |
| % 2nd pts | 73% | 68% | 73% | 47% | 65% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | |
| Converted | 3/3 | 3/9 | 3/14 | 4/13 | 13/39 | |
| Converted % | 100% | 33% | 21% | 31% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 3/5 | 7 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 100% | – | 60% | 59% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Kovacevic | ||||||
| R1 Kozlov |
R2 Shimabukuro |
1/4 Koepfer |
1/2 Shelton |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-74 6-4 | 6-3 6-4 | 7-5 7-65 | 6-4 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 32 | 19 | 25 | 22 | 98 | |
| pts | 102-85 | 55-42 | 89-82 | 72-56 | 318-265 | |
| Total points | 187 | 97 | 171 | 128 | 583 | |
| Winners | 47 | 30 | 39 | 29 | 145 | |
| %Winners | 46% | 55% | 44% | 40% | 46% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 8 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 37 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 59/96 | 34/50 | 54/81 | 33/62 | 180/289 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 68% | 67% | 53% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 47/59 | 30/34 | 39/54 | 29/33 | 145/180 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 88% | 72% | 88% | 81% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/37 | 10/16 | 12/27 | 19/29 | 66/109 | |
| % 2nd pts | 68% | 63% | 44% | 66% | 61% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | |
| Converted | 3/5 | 2/2 | 4/18 | 2/5 | 11/30 | |
| Converted % | 60% | 100% | 22% | 40% | 37% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 18 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 0/0 | 7/10 | 4/4 | 14 | |
| Saved % | 75% | – | 70% | 100% | 61% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
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