Aleksandar Kovacevic and Nick Hardt will face off in the 2nd round of the Waco Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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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 -> 1.3
Nick Hardt -> 3.3
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Prediction and head to head Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Nick Hardt
This will be the 2nd time that Aleksandar Kovacevic and Nick Hardt fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Hardt (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Hardt won 6-3 6-2 in the 1st round in the Bogota Challenger back in 2022.
Aleksandar Kovacevic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 14-7 | 5-8 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 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. 121 (career-high), Aleksandar got to the 2nd round after defeating Ryan Harrison 6-3 7-64.
In the 1st round, Aleksandar had a good straight sets win against Harrison (6-3 7-64). During the match, Kovacevic scored 72 points vs Harrison’s 69. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kovacevic scored 8 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Aleksandar Kovacevic was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (35/46) of his 1st serve and 52% (16/31) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The American broke Harrison twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Kovacevic has a winning record in the last 7 years having won 57% of his matches (117-90). 3-3 on hard in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kovacevic has an overall66-56 match record in the last 7 years on hard.
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Cleveland Challenger where he beat Yibing Wu in the final 3-6 7-5 7-6(2).
The American has an overall 8-3 win-loss record in 2023, 3-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Waco Challenger
Kovacevic has never competed in this tournament before.
Nick Hardt
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-17 | 6-5 | 30-12 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 22-28 | 11-9 | 10-16 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 51-25 | 18-6 | 28-16 | 5-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 44-19 | 9-6 | 35-13 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 8-11 | 6-6 | 2-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 212, the Dominican got to the 2nd round after defeating Toby Alex Kodat 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Hardt had a good straight sets win against Alex Kodat (6-3 6-4). During the match Hardt scored 65 points vs Alex Kodat’s 53. Hardt was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Hardt recorded 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Nick Hardt lost the serve 3 times and he saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Hardt put 55% of his first serves in, winning 71% (25/35) of the points behind his 1st serve and 38% (11/29) on the 2nd serve. The Dominican broke Alex Kodat 5 times after converting 56% of his break points (5/9).
The Dominican has an aggregate 5-5 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Kovacevic | Hardt |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 22 | 19 |
| Pts | 72-69 | 65-53 |
| Total Points | 141 | 118 |
| Winners | 35 | 25 |
| %Winners | 49% | 38% |
Both Kovacevic and Hardt played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Kovacevic and Hardt have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Kovacevic played 3 games more than Hardt. The American scored 35 winners (49% of the total points). On the other side, Nick managed to score 25 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Kovacevic | Hardt |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 2 |
| 1st in | 46/77 | 35/64 |
| %1st in | 60% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 35/46 | 25/35 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 11/29 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 38% |
Kovacevic scored 8 aces . Hardt made 2 aces . Kovacevic won 76% points behind his first serve. He very solid his second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Hardt won 71% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 38% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Kovacevic | Hardt |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 2 | 5 |
| Converted | 2/7 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 29% | 56% |
| Conceded | 4 | 6 |
| Saved | 3 | 3 |
| % Saved | 75% | 50% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 3 |
Aleksandar broke his opponent twice with a 29% conversion rate. The American dropped his serve once and he saved 75% of the break points that he conceded. Nick broke his opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Nick conceded his serve 3 times and he saved 50% of the break points that he conceded.
| Kovacevic | |||
| R1 Harrison |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-64 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 72-69 | 72-69 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 35 | 35 | |
| %Winners | 49% | 49% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 46/77 | 46/77 | |
| % 1st in | 60% | 60% | |
| 1st pts | 35/46 | 35/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/31 | 16/31 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 2 | 2 | |
| Converted | 2/7 | 2/7 | |
| Converted % | 29% | 29% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Hardt | |||
| R1 Alex |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 65-53 | 65-53 | |
| Total points | 118 | 118 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 35/64 | 35/64 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/29 | 11/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 38% | 38% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 6 | 6 | |
| Saved | 3/6 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 50% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Head 2 Head
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