Aleksandar Kovacevic and Inaki Montes-De La Torre will play each other in the 2nd round of the Charlottesville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on BRENDA MYERS COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Kovacevic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Kovacevic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Kovacevic -> 1.222
Inaki Montes-De La Torre -> 4.1
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Inaki Montes-De La Torre
There is no head to head record between Aleksandar Kovacevic and Inaki Montes-De La Torre since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
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. 178, Aleksandar got to the 2nd round after defeating Enzo Couacaud 6-3 7-69.
In the 1st round, Aleksandar had a good straight sets win against Couacaud (6-3 7-69). During the match, Kovacevic scored 82 points vs Couacaud’s 75. Kovacevic was quite aggressive to blast 37 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kovacevic scored 9 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Aleksandar Kovacevic was quite efficient on serve to win 77% (37/48) of his 1st serve and 54% (20/37) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Aleksandar broke Couacaud once after converting 50% of his break points (1/2).
Kovacevic has a winning record in the last 6 years having won 55% of his matches (104-84). 10-6 on indoor hard courts in 2022. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Kovacevic has a compiled27-20 match record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
Kovacevic’s best result of the season was getting to the final in the Indianapolis Challenger.
Kovacevic has a compiled 36-28 win-loss record in 2022, 10-6 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger
Aleksandar has never competed in this tournament before.
Inaki Montes-De La Torre
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 22-9 | 5-4 | 9-2 | 8-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-11 | 8-7 | 7-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 22-7 | 9-4 | 10-2 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 580, the Spaniard got to the 2nd round after defeating Alafia Ayeni 6-2 6-2.
In the 1st round, Inaki had a good straight sets win against Ayeni (6-2 6-2). During the match Montes-De La Torre scored 59 points vs Ayeni’s 33. Inaki was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Montes-De La Torre wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Inaki Montes-De La Torre was quite efficient on serve to win 76% (22/29) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Spaniard broke Ayeni 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
Montes-De La Torre’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Mungia.
The Spaniard has an aggregate 16-8 win-loss record in 2022, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Charlottesville Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2021. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovacevic | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 16 |
| Pts | 82-75 | 59-33 |
| Total Points | 157 | 92 |
| Winners | 37 | 22 |
| %Winners | 45% | 37% |
Both Kovacevic and Montes-De La Torre played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kovacevic and Montes-De La Torre have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kovacevic played 6 games more than Montes-De La Torre. Kovacevic scored 37 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, The Spaniard bagged 22 winners (37%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovacevic | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 9 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 9 | 0 |
| 1st in | 48/85 | 29/44 |
| %1st in | 56% | 66% |
| 1st pts | 37/48 | 22/29 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 76% |
| 2nd pts | 20/37 | 10/15 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 67% |
Kovacevic recorded 9 aces . Montes-De La Torre didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Kovacevic won 77% points on his first serve. He pretty solid on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Montes-De La Torre won 76% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 67% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovacevic | Montes-De La Torre |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 1 | 5 |
| Converted | 1/2 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 50% | 56% |
| Conceded | 4 | 1 |
| Saved | 4 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The American broke his opponent once with a 50% conversion rate. Aleksandar quite strong on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 4 break points. The Spaniard broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Montes-De La Torre conceded his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kovacevic | |||
| R1 Couacaud |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-69 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 82-75 | 82-75 | |
| Total points | 157 | 157 | |
| Winners | 37 | 37 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 9 | 9 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 48/85 | 48/85 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 37/48 | 37/48 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 20/37 | 20/37 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 1 | 1 | |
| Converted | 1/2 | 1/2 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 4/4 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Montes-De La Torre | |||
| R1 Ayeni |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 59-33 | 59-33 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 29/44 | 29/44 | |
| % 1st in | 66% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 22/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Charlottesville Challenger
- Edan LeshemLeshem – Alexis GalarneauGalarneau (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Emilio NavaNava – Nathan PonwithPonwith (5-7 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Ben SheltonShelton – Chris RodeschRodesch (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (3-6 6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Facundo MenaMena – Murphy CassoneCassone (3-6 6-3 7-68) – See score progression
- Lucas GerchGerch – Ethan QuinnQuinn (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Brandon HoltHolt – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-1 3-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (7-5 0-6 7-61) – See score progression
- Juncheng ShangShang – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-4 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Paul JubbJubb – Aidan MchughMchugh (6-74 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Ulises BlanchBlanch – Nicolas MejiaMejia (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (6-3 7-69) – See score progression
- Michael MmohMmoh – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-65 7-5) – See score progression
- Inaki Montes-De La TorreMontes-De La Torre – Alafia AyeniAyeni (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Nicolas Alvarez VaronaAlvarez Varona (6-1 7-63) – See score progression
- Denis KudlaKudla – Sebastian FanselowFanselow (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Lucas GerchGerch – Ethan QuinnQuinn (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Denis KudlaKudla – Ulises BlanchBlanch (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Facundo MenaMena – Emilio NavaNava (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Edan LeshemLeshem – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christopher EubanksEubanks – Aziz DougazDougaz (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lucas GerchGerch – Stefan KozlovKozlov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paul JubbJubb – Michael MmohMmoh (0-1) – H2H and prediction
