Emilio Gomez and Aleksandar Kovacevic will square off in the 1st round of the Chicago Challenger for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on COURT 21. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emilio Gomez who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emilio Gomez is the pick to win this match.
Emilio Gomez -> 1.82
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Emilio Gomez vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
This will be the 3rd time that Emilio Gomez and Aleksandar Kovacevic play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Gomez (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Gomez won 6-4 6-2 in the qualifications in Indian wells back in 2021.
Emilio Gomez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 16-28 | 8-16 | 2-6 | 5-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 47-26 | 38-15 | 1-3 | 8-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-33 | 25-15 | 9-11 | 3-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-15 | 2-5 | 4-6 | 6-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 114 (career-high), Gomez will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in the Lexington Challenger where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Shang in the final on the 7th of August.
Emilio has an overall 32-18 win-loss record in 2022, 28-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Ecuadorian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Salinas Challenger,the Malaga Challenger,the Winnipeg Challenger and the Lexington Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, The Ecuadorian has an overall 372-265 record. He has a positive 187-106 record on hard.
Previously in the Chicago Challenger
Emilio has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 205 (career-high), Kovacevic will start his run in the Chicago Challenger after he played his last match in the Lexington Challenger where he lost 3-6 7-6(5) 6-4 to Shang in the semifinal on the 6th of August.
The American has a compiled 27-18 win-loss record in 2022, 14-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Kovacevic’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Indianapolis Challenger.
In terms of his career, The American has an overall 95-74 record. He has a positive 55-43 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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- Billy HarrisHarris – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 7-69) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Evan ZhuZhu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Stefan DostanicDostanic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Keegan SmithSmith – Evan ZhuZhu (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Billy HarrisHarris – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-4 7-6(9)) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Fernando VerdascoVerdasco – Liam BroadyBroady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Govind NandaNanda (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio GomezGomez – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Borna GojoGojo (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ryan HarrisonHarrison – Aziz DougazDougaz (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Antoine EscoffierEscoffier – Kaichi UchidaUchida (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Li TuTu – Aidan MchughMchugh (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Paul JubbJubb – Jordan ThompsonThompson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina – Genaro Alberto OlivieriAlberto Olivieri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
