Emilio Nava and Aleksandar Kovacevic will play each other in the qualifications of the San Diego Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:30 am on BARNES STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emilio Nava who should win in 3 sets.
Emilio Nava -> 1.75
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 2.03
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Prediction and head to head Emilio Nava vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
This will be the 2nd time that Emilio Nava and Aleksandar Kovacevic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kovacevic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Kovacevic won 4-6 7-6(7) 7-6(1) in the 2nd round in M15 Champaign back in 2019.
Emilio Nava
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56-28 | 8-7 | 45-19 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-34 | 16-15 | 8-9 | 8-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-31 | 24-14 | 12-8 | 4-9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-27 | 15-15 | 14-6 | 12-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 40-16 | 9-6 | 27-7 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 177 (career-high), Emilio got to the qualifications after defeating Gage Brymer 6-1 6-1.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Brymer (6-1 6-1). During the match, Nava scored 54 points vs Brymer’s 25. Nava was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Nava fired 4 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Emilio Nava lost the serve once and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Nava put 71% of his first serves in, winning 67% (20/30) of the points behind his 1st serve and 75% (9/12) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Brymer 6 times after converting 86% of his break points (6/7).
Nava has a solid win-loss record in the last 5 years having won 63% of his matches (107-63). 12-11 on hard in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Nava has a compiled45-36 record in the last 5 years on hard.
Nava’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in the Shymkent 1 Challenger.
The American has an overall 35-21 win-loss record in 2022, 12-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in San Diego
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-33 | 13-14 | 4-7 | 16-8 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-35 | 20-17 | 5-8 | 2-6 | 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 |
Ranked no. 220, Aleksandar reached the qualifications after defeating Giovanni Oradini 7-65 6-2.
In the qualifications, Kovacevic had a good straight sets win against Oradini (7-65 6-2). During the match Kovacevic scored 87 points vs Oradini’s 79. Kovacevic was very aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic lost the serve twice and he saved 13 break points. Furthermore, Kovacevic put 63% of his first serves in, winning 67% (42/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 46% (17/37) on the 2nd serve. Aleksandar broke Oradini 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Aleksandar’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Indianapolis Challenger.
The American has a composed 28-21 win-loss record in 2022, 15-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Nava | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 14 | 21 |
| Pts | 54-25 | 87-79 |
| Total Points | 79 | 166 |
| Winners | 20 | 42 |
| %Winners | 37% | 48% |
Both Nava and Kovacevic 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, Nava and Kovacevic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Nava played 7 games less than Kovacevic. Nava scored 20 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Kovacevic blasted 42 winners (48%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Nava | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 30/42 | 63/100 |
| %1st in | 71% | 63% |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 42/63 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 17/37 |
| %2nd pts | 75% | 46% |
Nava recorded 4 aces . Kovacevic recorded 2 aces . Nava won 67% points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 75% of the points. On the other side, Kovacevic won 67% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 46% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Nava | Kovacevic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/7 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 86% | 57% |
| Conceded | 2 | 15 |
| Saved | 1 | 13 |
| % Saved | 50% | 87% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 2 |
Nava broke his opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. Nava surrendered his serve once and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded. Kovacevic broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Kovacevic conceded his serve twice and he saved 87% of the break points that he conceded.
| Nava | |||
| Q1 Brymer | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 14 | 14 | |
| pts | 54-25 | 54-25 | |
| Total points | 79 | 79 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 30/42 | 30/42 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 71% | |
| 1st pts | 20/30 | 20/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 9/12 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 75% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/2 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kovacevic | |||
| Q1 Oradini | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-65 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 87-79 | 87-79 | |
| Total points | 166 | 166 | |
| Winners | 42 | 42 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 63/100 | 63/100 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 42/63 | 42/63 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 17/37 | 17/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 46% | 46% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 15 | |
| Saved | 13/15 | 13 | |
| Saved % | 87% | 87% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
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