Thanasi Kokkinakis and Alexandre Muller will play each other in the 2nd round of the Manama Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Thanasi Kokkinakis who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Thanasi Kokkinakis is the pick to win this match.
Thanasi Kokkinakis -> 1.25
Alexandre Muller -> 3.65
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Prediction and head to head Thanasi Kokkinakis vs. Alexandre Muller
This will be the 2nd time that Thanasi Kokkinakis and Alexandre Muller clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kokkinakis (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Kokkinakis won 6-4 7-6(1) in the quarter in the Biella 6 Challenger back in 2021.
Thanasi Kokkinakis
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 21-16 | 8-9 | 11-6 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-26 | 31-18 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-19 | 19-12 | 2-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-21 | 15-11 | 18-7 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 141, Kokkinakis got to the 2nd round after beating Yanki Erel 7-5 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Erel (7-5 6-1). During the match, Kokkinakis scored 62 points vs Erel’s 43. Thanasi was very aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about the service games, Kokkinakis scored 11 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Thanasi Kokkinakis was quite efficient on serve to win 86% (30/35) of his 1st serve and 54% (7/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Kokkinakis broke Erel 4 times after converting 57% of his break points (4/7).
Kokkinakis has a solid record in the last 9 years having won 62% of his matches (192-117). 6-3 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this event, Kokkinakis has an aggregate128-69 win-loss record in the last 9 years on hard.
Kokkinakis’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.
Kokkinakis has a composed 6-3 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Manama Challenger
Kokkinakis has never competed in this tournament before.
Alexandre Muller
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 23-20 | 7-8 | 14-10 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-33 | 20-13 | 18-12 | 7-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 38-31 | 6-6 | 27-20 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 6-7 | 16-15 | 5-7 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 21-13 | 3-2 | 15-9 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 173, the French player reached the 2nd round after beating Oriol Roca Batalla 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Alexandre had a good straight sets win against Roca Batalla (6-3 6-1). During the match Muller scored 54 points vs Roca Batalla’s 36. The French player was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Muller managed to score 5 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Alexandre Muller was pretty efficient on serve to win 77% (23/30) of his 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Roca Batalla 4 times after converting 80% of his break points (4/5).
Muller has a composed 8-5 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kokkinakis | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 16 |
| Pts | 62-43 | 54-36 |
| Total Points | 105 | 90 |
| Winners | 30 | 23 |
| %Winners | 48% | 43% |
Both Kokkinakis and Muller played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kokkinakis and Muller have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kokkinakis played 3 games more than Muller. The Australian scored 30 winners (48% of the total points). On the other side, The French player managed to score 23 winners (43%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kokkinakis | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 11 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 11 | 5 |
| 1st in | 35/48 | 30/45 |
| %1st in | 73% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 30/35 | 23/30 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 7/13 | 10/15 |
| %2nd pts | 54% | 67% |
Kokkinakis bagged 11 aces . Muller fired 5 aces . Kokkinakis won 86% points behind his first serve. He extremely effective on his second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Muller won 77% 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 | Kokkinakis | Muller |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 4 |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/5 |
| % Converted | 57% | 80% |
| Conceded | 1 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 3 |
| % Saved | 100% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 |
Kokkinakis broke his opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. Kokkinakis was rock solid on his serve as he has never lost a single service game after saving 1 break points. The French player broke his opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Alexandre was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 3 break points.
| Kokkinakis | |||
| R1 Erel |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-5 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 62-43 | 62-43 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 30 | 30 | |
| %Winners | 48% | 48% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 11 | 11 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 35/48 | 35/48 | |
| % 1st in | 73% | 73% | |
| 1st pts | 30/35 | 30/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/13 | 7/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 54% | 54% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Muller | |||
| R1 Roca Batalla |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 54-36 | 54-36 | |
| Total points | 90 | 90 | |
| Winners | 23 | 23 | |
| %Winners | 43% | 43% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/45 | 30/45 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 23/30 | 23/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/15 | 10/15 | |
| % 2nd pts | 67% | 67% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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