Aleksandar Vukic and Mitchell Krueger will play each other in the 2nd round of the Waco Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 10:00 am on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Aleksandar Vukic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Aleksandar Vukic is the pick to win this match.
Aleksandar Vukic -> 1.54
Mitchell Krueger -> 2.36
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Vukic vs. Mitchell Krueger
This will be the 2nd time that Aleksandar Vukic and Mitchell Krueger face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Vukic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Vukic won 6-4 6-1 in the 1st round in the Las Vegas Challenger back in 2021.
Aleksandar Vukic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-23 | 5-9 | 5-9 | 0-0 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-33 | 34-20 | 9-4 | 1-3 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 30-25 | 14-15 | 4-5 | 12-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 34-26 | 8-5 | 10-11 | 11-7 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 22-12 | 10-4 | 9-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 194, Aleksandar got to the 2nd round after defeating Filip Misolic 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Aleksandar had a good straight sets win against Misolic (6-3 6-1). During the match, Vukic scored 60 points vs Misolic’s 36. The Australian was extremely aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Regarding the service games, Vukic scored 7 aces and he committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Aleksandar Vukic was extremely efficient on serve to win 80% (20/25) of his 1st serve and 63% (12/19) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian broke Misolic 5 times after converting 71% of his break points (5/7).
Vukic has a winning record in the last 9 years having won 58% of his matches (237-174). 6-4 on hard in 2023. In connection with his performance on the same surface of this competition, Vukic has a compiled109-86 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
The Australian has an overall 7-6 win-loss record in 2023, 6-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Waco Challenger
Vukic has never competed in this tournament before.
Mitchell Krueger
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 28-16 | 18-7 | 9-7 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-29 | 15-19 | 4-4 | 10-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-28 | 18-15 | 6-5 | 1-6 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-24 | 19-12 | 5-5 | 3-5 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-13 | 14-8 | 1-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 216, Krueger got to the 2nd round after defeating Chak Lam Coleman Wong 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Mitchell had a good straight sets win against Lam Coleman Wong (6-3 6-1). During the match Krueger scored 65 points vs Lam Coleman Wong’s 45. Krueger was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
About the serving games, Krueger bagged 3 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Mitchell Krueger lost the serve once and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Krueger put 59% of his first serves in, winning 67% (22/33) of the points behind his 1st serve and 52% (12/23) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Lam Coleman Wong 5 times after converting 50% of his break points (5/10).
Mitchell’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the Monterrey Challenger.
Krueger has an overall 9-6 win-loss record in 2023, 7-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Vukic | Krueger |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 |
| Pts | 60-36 | 65-45 |
| Total Points | 96 | 110 |
| Winners | 20 | 22 |
| %Winners | 33% | 34% |
Both Vukic and Krueger played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Vukic and Krueger have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Aleksandar scored 20 winners (33% of the total points). On the other side, Krueger made 22 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Vukic | Krueger |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 33/56 |
| %1st in | 57% | 59% |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 22/33 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 67% |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/23 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 52% |
Vukic scored 7 aces . Krueger scored 3 aces . Vukic won 80% points behind his first serve. He was rock solid on his second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Krueger won 67% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Vukic | Krueger |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 71% | 50% |
| Conceded | 1 | 4 |
| Saved | 0 | 3 |
| % Saved | 0% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Vukic broke his opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Aleksandar lost his serve once and he saved 0% of the break points that he conceded. Krueger broke his opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Mitchell conceded his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded.
| Vukic | |||
| R1 Misolic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-36 | 60-36 | |
| Total points | 96 | 96 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 25/44 | 25/44 | |
| % 1st in | 57% | 57% | |
| 1st pts | 20/25 | 20/25 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/19 | 12/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 0/1 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Krueger | |||
| R1 Lam Coleman Wong |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 65-45 | 65-45 | |
| Total points | 110 | 110 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 34% | 34% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/56 | 33/56 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 59% | |
| 1st pts | 22/33 | 22/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/23 | 12/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Nicolas MejiaMejia – Zachary SvajdaSvajda (7-67 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich (6-2 3-6 7-68) – See score progression
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Mattia BellucciBellucci (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
- Borna GojoGojo – Benoit PairePaire (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Filip MisolicMisolic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Tung-Lin WuWu (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Nick HardtHardt – Toby Alex KodatAlex Kodat (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (7-64 6-2) – See score progression
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Chak Lam Coleman WongLam Coleman Wong (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro – Ulises BlanchBlanch (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – Elmar EjupovicEjupovic (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
- Shintaro MochizukiMochizuki – Rinky HijikataHijikata (3-6 7-62 7-5) – See score progression
- Alex BoltBolt – Keegan SmithSmith (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Tung-Lin WuWu (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Gastao EliasElias – Enzo CouacaudCouacaud (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Alexandre MullerMuller (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alex BoltBolt – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Seong Chan HongChan Hong – Nicolas MejiaMejia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aleksandar VukicVukic – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Borna GojoGojo – Sho ShimabukuroShimabukuro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aziz DougazDougaz – Gastao EliasElias (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nick HardtHardt – Aleksandar KovacevicKovacevic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alexis GalarneauGalarneau – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
