James Duckworth and Aleksandar Kovacevic will square off in the 1st round of the Seoul Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on COURT 2. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is James Duckworth who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, James Duckworth is the pick to win this match.
James Duckworth -> 1.42
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 2.69
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Prediction and head to head James Duckworth vs. Aleksandar Kovacevic
There is no head to head record between James Duckworth and Aleksandar Kovacevic since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
James Duckworth
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 42-29 | 23-14 | 2-3 | 7-7 | 10-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-28 | 43-21 | 1-3 | 5-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 24-27 | 20-18 | 0-2 | 0-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 36-24 | 15-9 | 1-2 | 12-9 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 114, Duckworth will start his run in the Seoul Challenger after he played his last match in Tokyo where he lost 6-2 6-7(2) 6-1 to Fritz in the 1st round on the 5th of October.
The Australian has a compiled 16-21 win-loss record in 2022, 12-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Duckworth’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in the Cassis Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Duckworth has an overall 390-256 record. He has a positive 214-143 record on hard.
Previously in the Seoul Challenger
Duckworth has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 172, the American reached the 1st round after beating Woobin Shin 6-0 6-1 and Joris De Loore 6-3 5-7 7-64.
In the qualifications, Aleksandar defeated De Loore (6-3 5-7 7-64).During the match Kovacevic scored less points (2) than De Loore. In fact, the world no. 114 won 98 points vs De Loore’s. That means that Kovacevic was more focused during the important points. Kovacevic was very aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovacevic fired 7 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic lost the serve 5 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kovacevic put 56% of his first serves in, winning 65% (41/63) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (26/49) on the 2nd serve. The American was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break De Loore 5 times.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Aleksandar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
Aleksandar’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Indianapolis Challenger.
The American has an overall 34-25 win-loss record in 2022, 21-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
LWWL
LWL Tennis Scores in Seoul Challenger
- Hiroki MoriyaMoriya – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (6-1 5-7 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Joris De LooreDe Loore (6-3 5-7 7-64) – See score progression
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Max PurcellPurcell (6-4 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Skander MansouriMansouri (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Li TuTu – Mukund SasikumarSasikumar (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Hamad MedjedovicMedjedovic (7-64 7-62) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Cheong-Eui KimKim – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- John MillmanMillman – Hiroki MoriyaMoriya (8-1) – H2H and prediction
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Yibing WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Emilio GomezGomez – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- James DuckworthDuckworth – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Aleksandar VukicVukic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Hong ChungChung – Zsombor PirosPiros (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kaichi UchidaUchida – Li TuTu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Naoki NakagawaNakagawa – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kimmer CoppejansCoppejans – Tung-Lin WuWu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maximilian MartererMarterer – Chun Hsin TsengHsin Tseng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Ryan PenistonPeniston (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marc PolmansPolmans – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Dalibor SvrcinaSvrcina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Kamil MajchrzakMajchrzak (0-2) – H2H and prediction
