Hamad Medjedovic and Keegan Smith will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Busan Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Hamad Medjedovic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Hamad Medjedovic is the pick to win this match.
Hamad Medjedovic -> 1.666
Keegan Smith -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Hamad Medjedovic vs. Keegan Smith
There is no head to head record between Hamad Medjedovic and Keegan Smith since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Hamad Medjedovic
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 28-18 | 9-6 | 15-8 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 48-23 | 10-5 | 22-9 | 11-7 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
2022 | 46-24 | 12-10 | 28-6 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 13-13 | 0-0 | 13-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 2-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 259, Hamad will start his run in the Busan Challenger after he played his last match in the Seoul Challenger where he lost 7-6(4) 7-6(2) to Neuchrist in the qualifications on the 10th of October.
Medjedovic has a composed 43-20 win-loss record in 2022, 11-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Serbian’s best result of the current season was getting to the final in M15 Antalya,M25 Ulcinj and the Luedenscheid Challenger.
Talking about his overall career, Medjedovic has an overall 59-36 record. He has a positive 13-11 record on hard.
Previously in the Busan Challenger
The Serbian has never competed in this tournament before.
Keegan Smith
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2024 | 28-18 | 28-16 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2023 | 35-26 | 31-20 | 0-0 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 30-24 | 26-14 | 3-4 | 1-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2021 | 16-5 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2020 | 7-4 | 7-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 361, Keegan reached the 1st round after defeating Cheong-Eui Kim 6-1 6-1 and Shinji Hazawa 2-6 6-1 6-2.
In the qualifications against Hazawa, Smith recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (2-6 6-1 6-2). During the match Smith scored 87 points vs Hazawa’s 75. Smith was exceptionally aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Talking about serving, Smith bagged 7 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Keegan Smith lost the serve twice and he saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Smith put 65% of his first serves in, winning 69% (35/51) of the points behind his 1st serve and 48% (13/27) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Hazawa 4 times after converting 31% of his break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The American started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points he played.
Keegan’s best result of the year was reaching the final in M25 Cancun and M25 Bakersfield.
Keegan has a composed 29-21 win-loss record in 2022, 26-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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- Radu AlbotAlbot – Tung-Lin WuWu (6-3 2-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Max PurcellPurcell – Rinky HijikataHijikata (3-6 7-612 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
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