Matteo Arnaldi and Aleksandar Vukic will square off in the 1st round of the Phoenix Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 5:30 pm on CENTER COURT. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.64
Matteo Arnaldi -> 2.16
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Prediction and head to head Matteo Arnaldi vs. Aleksandar Vukic
There is no head to head record between Matteo Arnaldi and Aleksandar Vukic since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Matteo Arnaldi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 29-26 | 17-13 | 10-9 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 51-26 | 21-15 | 23-7 | 4-3 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 50-35 | 9-3 | 37-20 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 56-24 | 2-1 | 51-18 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 17-9 | 16-4 | 0-1 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-1 |
Ranked no. 115, Matteo will start his run in the Phoenix Challenger after he played his last match in Indian Wells where he lost 6-4 6-4 to Kokkinakis in the qualifications on the 7th of March.
The Italian has an aggregate 10-8 win-loss record in 2023, 10-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was winning the title the Tenerife 2 Challenger where he overcame Raul Brancaccio in the final 6-1 6-2.
Talking about his overall career, Matteo has an overall 146-90 record. He has a positive 46-20 record on hard.
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Matteo has never competed in this tournament before.
Aleksandar Vukic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 34-36 | 13-18 | 5-9 | 6-2 | 10-7 | 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. 186, Vukic got to the 1st round after beating Luke Saville 4-6 6-0 6-3 and Maximilian Marterer 7-62 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Australian had a good straight sets win against Marterer (7-62 7-5). During the match Vukic scored 74 points vs Marterer’s 64. Aleksandar was very aggressive to blast 36 winners.
Talking about serving, Vukic scored 12 aces and he committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Aleksandar Vukic was extremely effective on serve to win 84% (36/43) of his 1st serve and 59% (16/27) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Australian was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Marterer twice.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Aleksandar started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points he played.
The Australian has an overall 12-8 win-loss record in 2023, 11-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Phoenix Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Head 2 Head
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- Alexander BublikBublik – Denis KudlaKudla (7-69 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexei PopyrinPopyrin – Oscar OtteOtte (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Nuno BorgesBorges – Diego SchwartzmanSchwartzman (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Quentin HalysHalys – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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